Who Were The Citizens Of Ancient Rome? (With Mary Beard) | Rome: Empire Without Limit | Odyssey

I am envious of her knowledge her easy manner and her amazing expertise

The Gazans are acting as if they were Romans slaughtering Israelis in modern times.

I would so do the loo.

You could pass this woman in a supermarket, And you would never know what she really does for a job!

Excellent documentary. I also enjoyed her documentaries on Pompeii and daily life in the Roman Empire. Far better than most of the historical videos on YT, which usually feature a narrator and graphics.

Tiddis and the wing winies... sometimes comedy just happens.

Mary does it again!!! Never disapoints, thank you so much.

Nice Kicks Mary

American Dream basher.

Quando i romani conquistavano o soggiogavano qualche popolo erano sempre brutali, secondo la signora Beard. Un aggettivo ricorrente. Considerando la brutalità dei nostri giorni, degli imperi ormai estinti, da ultimo quello britannico, quantomeno le brutalità, presunte, dei romani, sono avvenute più di duemila anni fa. La civiltà, se ha un senso questa parola, qualche passo in più dovrebbe averlo fatto. Pensi a quali brutalità si abbandonavano i barbari del nord quando calavano in Italia. O ciò che è successo nella foresta di Teutoburgo; o ancora cosa ha combinato la vostra eroina Boudicca con gli abitanti di Londra, dopo averla rasa al suolo e massacrati i suoi abitanti (che non erano solo romani) a cui i moderni gli hanno dedicato pure un monumento.

Mary Beard is an old hag that has a beard

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I’m really enjoying Mary’s presentations. I’ve been to quite a few Roman sites over the years, but to be able to discern so much from the smallest of details is amazing and very impressive. It must make it you appreciate the sites so much more than a layperson.

Romans, the original Borg.

I enjoy listening to history but I lose interest when I hear them speak factually!

Another great lecture. Thanks, ma'am!

My two favourite historians and presenters are women. Dr Mary Beard and Dr Joann Fletcher. Incredible women with unmatched passion. I wish there was more!

Mary Beard baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabe

'like the American dream, we know it doesn't work for most people". Oh really Mary Beard?

Isnt this thing about going from unimportant provincial person to some important Roman general or whatever simillar to the Ottoman thing? Ottoman slaves could become premiers etc, i guess Ottomans just copied a Roman tradition in this

Mary Beard stans rise up

I wouls say romans were the citizens of rome

i wonder if the tooth thing still works with modern people?

this reminds me of the video of the traveler (who’s name i’ve forgotten) who went to every country. he had a stop in the Northern Mariana islands & it was like you were in California…they did up all the trappings of America, they were even watching the Super Bowl with American beers & with American accented english

OH MY GOD I’ve just remembered a history programme we watched at school aged about 9 where a woman rang a bell to summon “Barates! Flag seller from Palmyra!” And he “appeared” to tell her all about Roman Britain 😂

Except the overwhelming majority of the population at the time were working in agriculture and were not city dwellers. Still pushing the "ethnically diverse is just normal" line...

A US Purple Heart and a British Military Cross aren't remotely in the same league as far as military decorations are concerned...

She can't resist the temptation to interpret classical civilisation through the lens of 20th Century, soft-socialist, feminist Liberal academia...

Love you Mary.

When a liberal gets ahold of your history it becomes a farce

"Poles"? I think the lady just meant the climate as an example. I dont the Romans reached there. Don't know why Mary is getting overly PC and repeating Poles in Britain

Africa needs to throw off the chains of Islam.

Easier to collect taxes . . .maybe at first?
Lead in the water causing arthritis and citizens were exempt from paying taxes then; royals and aristocracy marrying their relatives over and over again, incorporating everyone as citizens might have made it easier for Rome to keep control of its subjects . . .
Lead poisoning, inbreeding, Roman outposts became too numerous to control, overspending, maybe they bankrupted themselves, political infighting, genetic and germ diseases, plagues fires, corruption, Catholic Christianity took over European rule - ruling until Henry VIII, at least in England,

As an American I really hate pathetic people who call themselves Anglicans who are clearly blue bloods from their mandibles and mannerisms yet still serfs, call out the American Dream as unattainable. I am clear example how these people lie to your face and expect no push back from people who obtained the unobtainable with a fair amount of ease.

I don’t know why she’s so astonished that Timgad, etc., is “so Roman”. Why should it seem less likely to be Roman than in more distant England? It’s typical of anywhere in the Empire, if better preserved. Also, it’s not desert, grasslands don’t grow in deserts, this was a huge wheat-producing area, wheat won’t grow in deserts, either, without extensive irrigation, if at all. This is a very typical semi-arid landscape like much of Italy, Greece, the Levant, Spain and all around the Mediterranean, not to mention mention most of California, where I live. The edge of the Sahara is likely encroaching closer to Timgad and the rest of the Northern African provinces now than it was during the times of the Roman Empire.

Well I absolutely hated history in school all it was was having to remember dates for exams, however Mary Beard has ignited a spark in me and I am eternally grateful, wish she had been my history teacher she has brought to life and it matters

"Winged willies" 🤣

Mary's sneaker flex is on point! 🔥📌

There wasn't the concept of race at that period. Race is a social construct from recent centuries, a very small amount of time in history. There are no races. Ethnicities and different groups were all incorporated into the empire as borders didn't really exist and the concept of incorporating different people and different ideas and concepts.

Did Mary's immigrants want to assimilate unlike muslims??

What a wonderful documentary! I love Mary’s Easy way of explaining what could be extremely complicated material. Makes me wish I got into Roman history instead of indigenous American anthropology. If I ever get to Italy I’ll be stalking the archaeologists out at Ostia, that I know.😅 I adore the mosaics.

Sounds a lot like the USA 🇺🇸!! 😂

I really enjoy these these documentaries.

Very interesting tour of the empire. Shows what can be built if you can keep a nation together for a 1000 yrs. The flip side though, I can’t really figure what to make of the “Rome” of that period. In many ways, they make me think of the brutality and conquest of the Nazi’s, only the Nazi’s did it on a brief industrial scale. I think it’s what Hitler meant of his “Thousand year Third Reich”…. Like what the Romans did 2,000 yrs prior.
With that in mind… makes me wonder how much we should “admire” that Roman period.

Plebs

It's exciting how Mary Beard loves the Romans and the empire they built. Being Portuguese, and loving in the same way the Romans, I feel somewhat proud of living in one of the areas of that ancient Empire that gave us so much.

Thank you for this. Mary Beard is one of the most articulate and down to earth historians of this age. Her documentaries are always a joy to watch!

I've always thoroughly enjoyed Mary Beard, her enthusiasm is infectious and a joy to behold.