As Mary Beard brings her Roman Emperor documentary to the BBC, she explains why the rulers are still important today. Charlotte McLaughlin reports.
There were cruel Roman Emperors, stupid ones and some that were just very good at PR. For example – Marcus Aurelius was known as the philosophising ruler who oversaw a period of peace, but his reign was heavily punctuated by bloody imperial expansion and persecuting Christians.
” Dame Mary says eccentric Elagabalus’s reputation – who recently hit the headlines for being reclassified as an LGBT figure by a Hertfordshire museum because he was the focus of an unverified Roman tale that he asked doctors to make him a woman – “reminds us that some of our debates about gender and gender division are not new”.
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