BBC Radio Podcasts from Ancient Lives with Mary Beard

BONUS: Mary Beard on Homer's Odyssey

Mary Beard talks to film director Uberto Pasolini about the power of Homer's Odyssey.

Mary Beard and Martin Scorsese chart the rise and fall of an Athenian strongman.

Mary Beard meets Gerys the Greengrocer as he faces up to the army of Sparta.

Mary Beard meets the real people who inspired the myths of Homer.

Mary Beard goes in search of Myrrhine, priestess and unlikely star of a popular sex comedy

Mary Beard presents the first of five compelling stories from Ancient Greece.

Mary Beard uncovers the real life of Ancient Greece hidden behind the gods and heroes.

Mary joins novelist Robert Harris to uncover the story of a Pompeii hustler.

Two men, one woman. All three seem devoted to each other. Love story or exploitation?

Mary Beard joins Calidius Eroticus and Fannia Voluptas for a Roman bar crawl.

Mary Beard meets the young Roman soldier who spends more time shopping than fighting.

Join Hadrian and his court poet for one of the strangest voyages in the history of Rome.

Meet the savvy political operator who cleaned up Britain after Boudicca's revolt.

A man and a woman meet and marry on Hadrian's Wall. Is it true love or exploitation?

Meet the frustrated office manager trying his best to run an empire.

Join the greatest doctor of his age as Rome's great fire threatens his life's work.

Meet a child prodigy who recited his poetry for the Emperor and the raucous Roman crowds.

Meet Turia, a young woman fighting for her family in the chaos of a brutal civil war.

Meet Marcus Aurelius- Emperor, warrior, philosopher and dangerous flirt.

From a slave to an emperor, Mary Beard meets six fascinating people from the Roman Empire.