Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit

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 that evidence of its side-effects can still be seen today, thousands of miles away from Rome.

Category

Documentary / History / Miniseries

Original air date

04/05/2016