Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to Historian Mary Beard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_yP8C7uo3Y Everyone in ancient Rome wore togas, surrounded themselves with pure-white marble statues, bayed for blood as gladiators fought to the death in the Colosseum, programmatically imitated the Greeks, and, after each and every debaucherous feast, excused themselves to the...













