In conversation with Professor Mary Beard
Professor Mary Beard, Suzi Feay
Journalist Suzi Feay in conversation with Professor Mary Beard to discuss Mary's life and career as well as her latest book Twelve Caesars - Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern - looking at emperors who, 2000 years after their death, are still the subjects of painting and sculpture, the heroes and anti-heroes of movies, the stars of political cartoons. They will talk about why, since the Renaissance, these images have remained so prevalent in Western culture. Emperors such as Vitellius who briefly ruled in 69 AD, who is now much less well known than the big names of Caligula, Claudius, Nero, or Hadrian, but was notorious between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries as a sadist and a glutton, and whose face appears in literally hundreds of paintings.
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