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Rating

7.5/10

Release2012

Seasons1

Episodes3

StatusEnded

Networks

BBC Two

TV Show

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard

7.5

2012

Documentary

Synopsis

Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire.

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