Prof. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (formerly University of Cambridge and Director of the British School at Rome) chats with James Renshaw in the first part of our bitesize episode mini-series on Urban Life in Ancient Rome. Andrew is an eminent archaeologist, broadcaster, director of the Herculaneum Conservation Project and former Master of Sidney Sussex College.
Aimed at both a general audience and Ancient History students studying the Interpretation Question about the benefits of imperial rule for the citizens of Rome, this series includes themes such as Health, Food, Housing, Local Government and Entertainment, as well as deep dives on each emperor.
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Virgil’s Aeneid – Ep 13...
December 17, 2025
Our final episode is a special one with Oxford don and Virgil super expert, Prof. Llewelyn Morgan of Brasenose College, Oxford. Find out what he thinks about our traitor theories and Aeneas’ character...
This penultimate episode has a summary of the series to date and then jumps into Book 3 as Katrina explains why ‘The Wanderings’ is a bit of a misnomer, and Caroline takes us...
Virgil’s Purple Prose? No, definitely not, but the Aeneid is replete with interesting uses of the word ‘purpureus’ and in this episode we look at purple as a colour of beauty, death, danger...
