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ThinkpieceThe long death of the Roman republic. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The long death of the Roman Republic. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photo of Mary Beard, smiling and looking towards the camera, standing between open gates.

Reviving Roman voices: Mary Beard on the remarkable life of one woman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustatration of the siege of Syracuse, showing Archimedes' cranes used to destroy Roman ships

The siege of Syracuse: how Archimedes took on the Romans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustrated portrait of Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes

Why Archimedes was the greatest scientist of the Classical age

Mary Beard, writer and feminist, at the Oxford Literary Festival 2019 on April 3, 2019 in Oxford, England

Video podcastMary Beard on how to live like a Roman emperor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastLife of the week: Nero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life of the weekNero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Re-examining women in the Roman empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Unearthing Pompeii’s streets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Beard

“The Roman empire cannot have been governed by a series of psychopaths. It would not have survived”Mary Beard on Roman Emperors

How to live like a Roman emperor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Image of an atrium from ancient Rome. There are people milling around and a fountain.

What were houses like in ancient Rome?

Women who shaped the Roman empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pax Romana: peace at the point of a sword. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rome v Carthage: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1948 photograph of the House of Epidius Rufus in Pompeii. The structure had to be rebuilt after being damaged by Allied bombs during WWII (Photo by SuperStock/Alamy Stock Photo)

How were Pompeii and Herculaneum discovered?

An 18th-century artwork depicting the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius from across the Bay of Naples (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

PompeiiA timeline of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

What can the streets of Pompeii reveal about daily life in ancient Rome?

A 19th-century depiction of the market of Pompeii

PompeiiWhat was life like before the eruption of Vesuvius?

A 17th-century engraving of the Mount Vesuvius eruption of AD 79, by Athanasius Kircher (Photo by Shawshots/Alamy Stock Photo)

Your ultimate guide to Pompeii, plus 8 fascinating facts about the ancient Roman city

Trajan statue

Tom Holland on Trajan"He is vastly overrated"

A relief on Trajan's Column shows Roman troops crossing the Danube during the war against the Dacians. Victory was the framework upon which Pax Romana was built (Photo by akg-images/Erich Lessing)

The Pax Romana: how the Romans maintained peace at the point of a sword. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fulvia gleefully posing with Cicero’s severed head, in an 1898 painting by Pavel Svedomsky. Whether or not she pierced his tongue with hairpins is the subject of debate (Photo by CBW / Alamy Stock Photo)

Fulvia: the maligned wife of politicians who made herself the power broker of ancient Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rome vs Persia: an unwinnable fight. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman gods & goddesses: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tom Holland on Rome’s golden age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of Spartacus, the escaped gladiator who became a leader in the Third Servile War, and his comrades using vines to abseil down the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in preparation of a surprise attack.

The Servile Wars: Spartacus & the rebellions that threatened the Roman Republic

An EID MAR coin showing two daggers and a helmet

The coin that celebrates Caesar's murder

A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?