
Bettany Hughes relives eight pivotal days that defined the Roman Empire and made it the world's first superpower.
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Air Date: 2017-10-27
Examining the day in 202BC when Rome defeated the might of Carthage at the Battle of Zama. This decisive moment set R...
Air Date: 2017-11-03
Bettany Hughes relates the events of 73BC when a Thracian gladiator started a slave revolt that so panicked the Roman...
Air Date: 2017-11-10
Rome had defeated her great rival Carthage and overcame a slave revolt led by Spartacus, but these victories came at ...
Air Date: 2017-11-17
Upon Julius Caesar's death, his 18-year-old great nephew stepped into the delicate balance of power and became Rome's...
Air Date: 2017-11-24
It's 60 A.D. Seventeen years after the invasion of Britannia, Roman forces march into the settlement of the Iceni tri...
Air Date: 2017-12-01
It's 54 A.D. and Nero just succeeded his stepfather Claudius to become the fifth emperor of Rome. What followed was 1...
Air Date: 2017-12-08
Out of the carnage of Emperor Nero's death and the civil war that followed, a new imperial dynasty was born, one that...
Air Date: 2017-12-15
After more than a century of steady Roman decline, one man restores order to the disintegrating empire, setting it on...