for their foes to grab Macedonian beards. The move, coupled with Alexander’s surprising success on the battlefield, fueled a trend in beardlessness among Greek and Roman men that endured for the ...

Alexander was succeeded by Maximinus Thrax ... a “potential fight every time power changed hands,” Beard writes. “The Roman Empire was a murderous world” in which killing was a method ...

How do the stories about him speak to Roman expectations for, and anxieties about, one-man rule? As Beard puts it ... basic parameters until the reign of Alexander Severus in mid-3rd century ...

Mary Beard introduces her six part series on the people of the Roman Empire. Show more Beneath starched Shakespearean togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to ...