Professor Mary Beard
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662 appearances
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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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And then in what is one of Rome's also horriblest bits of domestic violence, if it's true, he comes back after an evening out and he hits her in the stomach while she's pregnant and she dies.
And then he conveniently gets remarried.
Did Messalina survive, or...?
She survived him.
Oh, OK.
And she actually had more husbands than he'd had.
Fair play.
Good, good.
You also have been an ancient Romanist.
Yeah.
You've just got the right mindset for this.
All the time.
Because one thing we know about Rome is it was a tinderbox, that fires happened in the city of Rome.
Always on fire.
Really?
Yeah.
And nevertheless, the story arose that Nero had started it.
Suetonius thinks he started it in order to clear the ground so he could build himself a fantastic new palace, because that's exactly what he did.
That's the mob boss thing, yeah.
It's called the Golden House.
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