Professor Mary Beard
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662 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 1 May
Professor Mary Beard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, it's great to be here and be with both of you and even in the company of the Emperor Nero.
We'll see about that.
Well, there's quite a lot of sources around Nero.
Where the thinner pickings are found is if you're looking for a standard ancient account of Nero A to Z.
We've got some.
They agree on one thing, that he wasn't a good thing, right?
They are quite, we call euphemistically, they're a bit hostile.
The reviews are in.
The reviews are in, and they are not good ones.
Well, he's in a dysfunctional family, I think would be our way of putting it.
He's born in 37 CE, and his name is actually then Lucius Domitius Ahino Barbus, which means bronze beard.
He had a bronze beard when he was a baby?
That was what we would
I call his surname.
I'm called Beard and I don't have one.
Nero's surname was Bronzebeard.
And his dad was a pretty despicable character called Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.
And there's horrible stories told about him, like how he once ran over a child deliberately in the street in his chariot.
Happily, perhaps, for Nero, he died when Nero was about three.
Was his dad in politics?
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