--- product_id: 61440661 title: "Mary Beard Collection - Rome - Meet the Romans & Ultimate Rome Empire Without Limit - As Seen on BBC2 [DVD]" brand: "mary beard" price: "€ 38.30" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/61440661-mary-beard-collection-rome-meet-the-romans-and-ultimate-rome store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Mary Beard Collection - Rome - Meet the Romans & Ultimate Rome Empire Without Limit - As Seen on BBC2 [DVD] **Brand:** mary beard **Price:** € 38.30 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Mary Beard Collection - Rome - Meet the Romans & Ultimate Rome Empire Without Limit - As Seen on BBC2 [DVD] by mary beard - **How much does it cost?** € 38.30 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/61440661-mary-beard-collection-rome-meet-the-romans-and-ultimate-rome) ## Best For - mary beard enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted mary beard brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description MEET THE ROMANS We still live in the shadow of ancient Rome - a city at the heart of a vast empire that stretched from the North of England to Afghanistan, dominating the West for over 700 years. This fascinating history series, as seen on the BBC and presented by Professor Mary Beard, puts aside the stories of emperors and armies, guts and gore, to meet the real Romans living at the heart of it all. Episode 1: Mary asks not what the Romans did for us, but what the empire did for Rome. She rides the Via Appia, climbs up to the top seats of the Colosseum, takes a boat to Rome's port Ostia and takes us into the bowels of Monte Testaccio. She also meets some extraordinary Romans: Baricha, Zabda and Achiba, three prisoners of war who became Roman citizens; and Pupius Amicus, the purple dye seller making imperial dye from shellfish imported from Tunisia. This is Rome from the bottom up. Episode 2: Mary descends into the city streets to discover the dirt, crime, sex and slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city. This Rome is not the marble Rome we know, but a vast, messy metropolis with little urban planning, where most Romans lived in high-rise apartment blocks with little space, light, or even sanitation. Forced outdoors into the city streets, she reveals where they went to hang out, get drunk, have sex and get clean. Episode 3: Mary delves even deeper into ordinary Roman life by going behind the closed doors of their homes. She meets an extraordinary cast of characters - drunken housewives, teenage brides, bullied children and runaway slaves - and paints a more dynamic, lusty picture of Roman family life. Finally, Mary paints a more nuanced picture of Roman slavery and asks why if it was such a brutal institution did many Romans choose to be buried with their servants - living cheek by jowl in death, as in life. ULTIMATE ROME EMPIRE WITHOUT LIMIT Travelling from Spain to Israel, Algeria to Britain, Germany to Turkey, historian and classicist Mary Beard answers the big questions that have fascinated people for centuries...How and why did the Roman Empire happen? Why did Rome acquire an empire? And why did it fall? Mary examines its creation, its successes, its failures and the legacy it left behind - not just its technology and buildings, its roads and laws but also in the worlds that came after it. No series before has looked at the empire as a whole with such epic scope. Moving from the ancient to the modern, from the big battles and big names of Roman history and on to the stories of those who made it work, many of whom have left their own imprints alongside the Pompeys and Caesars, Hadrians and Constantine the Greats. Welcome to Mary s Roman Empire. ## Images ![Mary Beard Collection - Rome - Meet the Romans & Ultimate Rome Empire Without Limit - As Seen on BBC2 [DVD] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71o+QuwzKIL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Historical series *by R***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2021* An excellent guide to life in Rome,I had not watched any of Mary Beard programmes before and I may well watch other series that she has presented in the future. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rome from the bottom up. *by R***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2017* An absorbing and interesting presentation focussed on the lives of ordinary Romans drawn from the phenomenal grasp that Prof Mary Beard has of the topic, as well as from direct evidence from surviving structures and grave stones, which she interprets in a lively and passionate manner. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fascinating, but regrettably NO sub-titles *by P***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2019* Love the programme, wanted it for current studies, BUT no sub-titles and I’m deaf. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hr/products/61440661-mary-beard-collection-rome-meet-the-romans-and-ultimate-rome](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/61440661-mary-beard-collection-rome-meet-the-romans-and-ultimate-rome) --- *Product available on Desertcart Croatia* *Store origin: HR* *Last updated: 2026-05-20*