![]() ![]() Nor even the enthusiastic delivery of a passionate and emotional Philippa Gregory. ![]() This isn't the warmly eccentric verbal embrace of a Mary Beard, or your friendly and engaging best mate Lucy Worsley. For the first time I understand the complex lineage of the family tree, and the various comings and goings (mainly goings!) of the Dynasty made complete sense - despite half of the people having very similar names! But, sadly, it is in the presentation of the documentary by the good Professor that I found the programmes wanting. The content is generally very good, based very much on Suetonius's "Lives", but extended appropriately by Historian Professor Catherine Edwards. And there is more than a courteous nod to Robert Graves's "I Clavdivs". The Suetonius tales of Roman lives are made very real. One is aware that the myth-like histories of events took place on those very spots. While the Forum and Curia are well known in documentaries, some lesser known, less frequently visited locations, such as the House of Livia on the Capitoline and the Mausoleum of Augustus, broaden the sense of history and revitalise the sense of Imperial Rome. ![]() ![]() The documentary is vividly brought alive by the locations of Ancient Rome used to illustrate the plot. The star of this programme is the camera operator/VT editor. ![]()
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