Twelve Caesars with Mary Beard

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The title of Caesar has echoed down the ages as the pinnacle of absolute power and perhaps even tyranny. A single man at the head of a nation or empire with untouchable power. But how powerful were they really and why are they seen as an example to follow when many of the men who became Caesar met a bloody end? Dan is joined by the legendary classicist Mary Beard to explore the history of the first twelve Caesars. They discuss how these autocratic rulers have been portrayed throughout history, how the Roman Empire was really ruled and how their legacy still lives with us today.

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to Dan Snow's History Hit. You know it's a good day. You know
0:05.2	it's a good day. When you get in a train, you get a Cambridge on the most
0:08.4	beautiful wonderful cities in Britain. You get off its heart and sunny as it always
0:13.1	is in the old Finland's. You walk through glorious architecture of that city.
0:17.6	You breathe in history. You walk past the buildings in which Newton, Rosalind,
0:23.6	Franklin and so many others unlock the secrets of our history, our past, our bodies,
0:30.4	the world around us and then you knock on Mary Beard's front door. Professor Mary
0:35.9	Beard, one of the most beloved, the most respected, the most brilliant
0:40.4	intellectuals in Britain. You've seen on TV, you've listened to on the radio
0:45.0	and the podcast, you've read her books and now she's here on History Hit,
0:48.8	talking about the 12 Caesars, talking about these extraordinary men who ruled over
0:54.1	Rome in the first and early second century AD. Yep, it's an honor. We drank some wine,
1:00.5	we sat in a garden, we chaffed about Rome in history. I love my job. And the reason I
1:06.3	can do this job is because of you listening to this podcast. I'm incredibly
1:10.3	grateful. You tolerate the ads. I'm even more grateful. And some of you, well, tens of
1:15.0	thousands of you are subscribing to History Hit TV. This interview with Mary
1:18.5	Beard was films. We will be making a program. We're going to put that on the
1:21.4	channel, ASAP. But in the meantime, you can listen to our conversation right here.
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