What The Day-To-Day Life Was Really Like In Ancient Rome | Rome: Empire Without Limit

In the second episode, Mary Beard explores the physical world of the Roman Empire, and finds surprising parallels with our own world. Setting out in the footsteps of the emperor Hadrian, she discovers a vast empire bound together by a common material culture, and a globalised economy of such scale...

59 min - Ancient Worlds - Timeline - World History Documentaries

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