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Greece vs Rome, with Boris Johnson and Mary Beard
Intelligence Squared
The Perils of a Traffic Jam
Rome devoted itself to organising big city life and Boris knows just how hard that is. Rome was the only place in the ancient world where the state took responsibility for ensuring its citizens had enough to eat. Top of the Roman agenda with a practical issues of living together and how you make a human community work. Finally Roman society incorporated those who were mostly excluded in theAncient world. Most obviously women. In classical Athens for all the blasted democracy women had a ghastly time they were often segregated and they had few rights of any sort. My favourite one would have been the autobiography of Nero's mother Agrippina which I think would have been told there's quite a lot about life in the
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