Professor Mary Beard
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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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Nero, right?
And he got a new name, which is why we call him Nero, because he's called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, right?
For short.
Yeah.
You've been reading Robert Graves?
I have to say that my early education in Roman history came from that television program.
That's an incredible... It's a classic, isn't it?
There are very nasty statistics about how many senators he had put to death.
Let me just say that.
In due course, there is a problem there.
Okay.
Yeah.
Stoicism has quite a good rep in the modern world.
Yeah, exactly.
And we kind of think of it as a sort of stiff upper lip rather kind of...
You know, a rather positively admirable way of conducting yourself to be a Stoic.
Yeah, I sometimes look at the best-selling charts on the online bookstore that we all use, and you can guarantee that Marcus Aurelius is still selling quite a lot more than I am, so...
I think it's a tribute to him.
But Seneca was quite a famous Stoic and tutor to Nero.
One of the things the Stoicism suggests you should do is entirely keep your passions in, right?
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