Air date: 2012-04-17

Runtime: 180 min

Prof Mary Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times.

Air date: 2012-04-24

Runtime: 180 min

Mary heads into the streets to discover the dirt, crime, sex, and slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city. Oddly enough, the poorer you were, the higher you lived, with little space, light, or sanitation.

Air date: 2012-05-01

Runtime: 180 min

To learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves.