Prof Mary Beard asks not what the Romans did for us, but what the empire did for Rome.
Prof Mary Beard discovers the slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city.
In this final episode, Mary Beard delves even deeper into ordinary Roman life by going behind the closed doors of their homes. She meets an extraordinary cast of characters - drunken housewives, teenage brides, bullied children and runaway slaves - and paints a more dynamic, lusty picture of Roman family life.
