'Why on Earth do we need a new history of Rome?' (Answers within)
From Romulus and Remus to its infamous fall, the once “small, ordinary” town of Rome came to define empire and change the world forever. British scholar, television host and author Mary Beard has made mining the history of that empire her central work.
Beard is a classics professor at Cambridge and the author of “SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.”
She spoke at Town Hall Seattle on September 19. Sonya Harris recorded her talk.
Listen to the full event below.
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John O'Brien
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John O’Brien is a KUOW newsroom producer. He works with the Morning Edition and All Things Considered teams to schedule, record, and edit interviews and stories on a variety of topics, from politics and public health to arts and culture. He learned to make radio in 2006 as an intern on KUOW’s The Conversation and is a former host of KUOW's Speakers Forum.
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