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MembershipaudioHadrian’s Wall: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
As we approach the 1900th anniversary of the building of Hadrian’s Wall, Rob Collins answers listener questions on the Roman fortification
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MembershipaudioPompeii: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Sophie Hay answers listener questions on the Roman city that was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79
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MembershipaudioSchama on 'Civilisations'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Simon Schama discusses his experiences of making the major new BBC arts history series Civilisations
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MembershipaudioMarcus Aurelius: thinker or fighter?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Shushma Malik explores the life and career of Rome’s renowned philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius
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MembershipaudioThe Byzantine empire: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Professor Judith Herrin responds to listener questions about the Byzantine empire, which emerged in late antiquity and survived until the end of the Middle Ages
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MembershipaudioHistory’s greatest mysteriesWas the Trojan War fact or fiction?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
In the latest in our series on history’s biggest conundrums, the author and classicist Daisy Dunn seeks out evidence of the Trojan War
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MembershipaudioGhosts, necromancy & the underworld in ancient Mesopotamia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From necromancy and the underworld to getting rid of troublesome spirits, Irving Finkel discusses ghost beliefs in ancient Mesopotamia
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MembershipaudioThe Maya: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Professor Matthew Restall tackles listener questions and popular search queries about the central American civilisation
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MembershipaudioBog bodies: what can they teach us?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Dr Melanie Giles unravels some of the mysteries around amazingly preserved human remains found in bogs – and reveals what we can learn from them
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MembershipaudioWerewolves of the ancient world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Daniel Ogden explores the origins of the werewolf legend in stories from ancient Greece and Rome
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MembershipaudioShould mummies be on display?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Is it strange that we go to museums to look at dead bodies? Angela Stienne delves into the ethical debates around displaying ancient human remains
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MembershipaudioTroy: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From Achilles and Agamemnon to the Trojan horse, Paul Cartledge answers listener questions on the ancient city that supposedly fought an epic war with the Greeks
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MembershipaudioMary Beard’s life in Classics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
The renowned Cambridge classicist discusses her career and passion for the ancient world
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MembershipaudioDemocracy and an age of genius. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Paul Cartledge looks at the roots of mass participation in politics, while AC Grayling explains why he thinks the 17th century was pivotal to the development of the modern mind
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MembershipaudioRoman women: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Professor Kate Cooper answers listener questions on women in the Roman world, from experiences of marriage and childbirth to female-led armies
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MembershipaudioHannibal: Rome’s greatest nightmare. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Philip Freeman discusses the life of the brilliant Carthaginian general who almost brought Rome to its knees
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