Dame Mary Beard

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560 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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You know, you go to Pompeii and you sit on one of the lavs and you think, how many Roman bottoms sat here before me, et cetera, et cetera.

And, you know, doing the same thing, that's sharing.

And then you think,

That's one side of it.

But they're completely different.

If a Roman walked into my house, I wouldn't know what to say to them.

It's like they're from another planet.

Ciao.

Ciao, you know, style way.

And they'd look a bit puzzled.

Yeah.

And I think there's this kind of simultaneous similarity, sharedness and complete difference.

And the thing that kind of often brings it home for me is that nobody in Rome knew what they looked like.

They could occasionally put on, you know, women put on, I'm afraid it sounds very sexist, but it's true.

You know, they had a bit of shiny metal and that helped put on their eye makeup.

But they didn't know what they looked like, except in a pool or a bit of polished clothes.

brass or something.

You think, what on earth would it be like?

Not to know what you look like.

What would that mean to how you lived your life?

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