Classicists Mary Beard and Jo Quinn - Who Made The West?
Two renowned classicists join us to debunk myths and reveal new and thrilling histories of power.
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Show Notes
We think we know what it was like to rule – and be ruled – in the Ancient Roman world.
We think we know that Roman values and ideas formed the cornerstone of Western civilisation.
We are wrong.
In this special episode of the How To Academy podcast Cambridge’s Mary Beard and Oxford’s Josephine Quinn transport us back to the ancient world and reveal thrilling new histories of the Roman Empire and the origins of the West.
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