Professor Mary Beard
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 1 May
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She survived him.
Oh, OK.
And she actually had more husbands than he'd had... Fair play.
Good, good.
In some ways, this is even... It's even worse, partly because it is...
Probably not as untypical as we might imagine because Nero has an enslaved boy who he thinks looks like papaya.
Oh, no.
Looks very like papaya.
He has him castrated and then he makes him his lover.
It might depend on the movie you've been watching, I'm not sure.
It depends on the statue or the movie.
Yes.
In East England.
East England.
And she...
I mean, she's an example of an appalling consequence of Roman cruelty, really.
Her husband, the king, Prosutagus, is like many of the tribal kings in Britain and is a collaborator with Roman.
He would have called himself an ally.
We might say collaborator.
When he dies, he rather canonally makes his heir Roman.
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