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 ...

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 ...

What Was a Roman Emperor’s Daily Life Like?' Classicist and author Mary Beard sits down with Tristan Hughes in this filmed podcast for the The Ancients podcast to discuss the role of the Roman ...

A lot of people living in the Roman empire didn ... assassinated in 44 BCE – to Alexander Severus, who ruled until 235 CE. The idea for the book came from Beard’s years of teaching at ...

To a historian of ancient Rome like Mary Beard, it’s always timely to talk about the empire. But her new book about the daily lives of Roman Emperors, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman ...

So historian Mary Beard, 69, had to learn to snorkel to examine the wonders that have fascinated historians and archaeologists for decades. In BBC documentary Meet the Roman Emperor, which airs ...

Emperor of Romeby Mary Beard The interchange between the minutiae of lived experience during Roman antiquity—the ground-level view of daily routines, paperwork, clothes—and the panoptic view ...

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 ...