The Roman Empire

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Mary Beard, writer and feminist, at the Oxford Literary Festival 2019 on April 3, 2019 in Oxford, England

Video-podcast Mary Beard on how to live like a Roman emperor . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Life - Nero V

Video podcast Life of the week: Nero . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Trajan statue

Tom Holland on Trajan "He is vastly overrated"

A relief on Trajan's Column shows Roman troops crossing the Danube during the war against the Dacians. Victory was the framework upon which Pax Romana was built (Photo by akg-images/Erich Lessing)

The Pax Romana: how the Romans maintained peace at the point of a sword

Messalina

Sex, scandal and slander: who was Messalina?

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Pod Peter Heather WL

Goths: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Harry Sidebottom WL

Heliogabalus: Rome’s scandalous emperor . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor.

Everything you wanted to know about the Roman emperors

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Pod Peter Stothard WL

Crassus: Rome’s richest man . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&A Could Roman slaves buy their own freedom?

An allegorical depiction of the plague in ancient Rome, an angel batters down a door while people lie sick on the ground

The reign of Roman disease: why did disease hit a flourishing empire?

Illustration representing various empires across history

General ancient history

Have empires ever been a force for good?

A bust of Marcus Aurelius and a detail on Marcus Aurelius’s column in Rome

Marcus Aurelius: Rome’s reluctant killer

Bust of Germanicus, Roman General

In the footsteps of Germanicus – a Roman General’s journey to Egypt

This second-century AD column shows Romans beheading German nobles. Armed with the lethal gladius (short sword), Roman soldiers were feared throughout the empire. (Image by Bridgeman)

A guide to the Roman army, plus 10 facts about life in the legions