Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit

History Documentary hosted by Mary Beard, published by BBC in 2016 - English narration
 
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Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit
How could a mediocre city in central Italy come to dominate such a huge area? What held the empire together and tore it apart? Mary Beard takes in the history and archaeology of the ancient world.


1)  Part 1 
In this first episode, Mary Beard reaches back to the myths and legends of the origins of Rome to gain an insight into the deep-rooted psyche of the people of Rome - a city born through fratricide and rape. But from the very beginning, Rome was also an asylum for outcasts and exiles and because of this, it adopted a uniquely inclusive approach towards its neighbours and defeated enemies. The expansion of the city brought territory in first in Italy and Sicily, where Rome first came head to head and eventually defeated her great rival, Carthage. Mary then travels to Greece, where Rome adopted a complex mix of brute force and cultural cringe, and France, where she finds evidence of war methods akin to outright genocide. In typical myth-busting style, Mary argues that the period of greatest Roman expansion occurred when Rome itself was little more than a provincial backwater, a shantytown of mud and brick. The marble, monumental Rome we know came about because of imperial conquest - not the other way round. And likewise, the creation and possession of an empire transformed the politics of Rome forever, creating the conditions for one-man rule, and ending the centuries-old Roman Republic.



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 * Video Codec: x264 CABAC [email protected]
 * Video Bitrate: 2985 Kbps
 * Video Aspect Ratio: 1280 x 720
 * Video Resolution: 1.778 (16:9)
 * Audio Codec: AAC LC
 * Audio: English
 * Audio Bitrate: 160 kb/s VBR 48 KHz
 * Audio Channels: Stereo 2
 * Run-Time: 59mins
 * Framerate: 25 fps
 * Number of Parts: 4
 * Container Mp4
 * Part Size: 1.29 GB
 * Source: HDTV
 * Encoded by: Harry65

Release Notes
Merged English Subtitles

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1)  Further Information 
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0797yqk