We finish out our discussion of this classic BBC adaptation of Robert Graves’ novel. This half, we dig into the reigns of Caligula, Claudius and Nero, their adaptation on the series and our understandings of their reigns. Can you be a good emperor in a corrupt system? Are Roman woman in film caught in an inescapable Catch-22? What’s the historical truth behind ‘Herman the German’? Listen to find out the answers to these questions and more!
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