Meet the Romans With Mary Beard

Professor Mary Beard descends into the city streets to discover the dirt, crime, sex and slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city. This Rome is not the marble Rome we know, but a vast, messy metropolis with little urban planning, where most Romans lived in high-rise apartment blocks with little space, light, or even sanitation.

Category

Documentary / History

Original air date

24/04/2012