Historian Mary Beard says many of our popular notions about the empire are based on culture — like the play Julius Caesar or the film Gladiator... From Gladiator Duels To Caesar's Last Words: The ...

What did it mean to be an emperor in ancient Rome? That is the question that Mary Beard sought to answer in her 2023 book, “Emperor of Rome.” She wrote, “Everyone then, including emperors, was trying ...

Julius Caesar is the most famous Roman of them all: brutal conqueror, dictator, and victim of a gruesome assassination. 2,000 years on, his influence is still being felt. Historian Mary Beard is on a ...

There are lots of Roman emperors to cover in a book about an empire that took in a lot of territory, but Mary Beard helps us out with several maps and a list of main characters in different dynasties ...

"I think I'd go for a jug of wine with Caligula, just to see what he was really like..." Classicist and national treasure Mary Beard answers Dan's quickfire questions on ancient Rome and its emperors.

Beard is a classicist and the author, most recently, of Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern Artists have failed to depict a complete set of Roman empresses, but we can ...