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BBC – Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)

02/10/2023 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.17 GB

Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus – better known as Caligula – was said to have made his horse a consul, proclaimed himself a living God and indulged in scandalous orgies. [Read more…]

BBC – Mary Beard’s Forbidden Art (2022)

01/03/2022 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Mary Beard’s Forbidden Art (2022)
English | Size: 1.47 GB
Category: Documentary

Classicist and broadcaster Professor Mary Beard explores a broad range of thought-provoking and sometimes controversial works of art that tackle unsettling subjects – works that have been fought over, removed from view or simply ‘forbidden’. [Read more…]

BBC – Meet the Romans with Mary Beard (2012)

17/11/2020 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Meet the Romans with Mary Beard (2012)
English | Size: 3.40 GB
Category: Documentary

We still live in the shadow of ancient Rome – a city at the heart of a vast empire that stretched from Scotland to Afghanistan, dominating the West for over 700 years. Professor Mary Beard puts aside the stories of emperors and armies, guts and gore, to meet the real Romans living at the heart of it all. [Read more…]

BBC – Mary Beard Shock of the Nude (2020)

05/03/2020 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Mary Beard: Shock of the Nude (2020)
English | Size: 1.43 GB
Category:Documentary

Mary Beard takes on the nude.
Chapter 1: The Body Beautiful
From the Ancient Greeks to the taboo-busting painters and sculptors of today, Mary gives a deeply personal take on naked bodies in art. Just why are artists so interested in nudity? What can art reveal about our own attitudes to the body? For Mary, the nude stands on some of the deepest fault lines running through society, speaking to issues of men, women, gender and sex gender, sex and moral transgression. [Read more…]