Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit

Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peak encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much of western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. Mary Beard stars in the documentary series BBC - Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit, which explains the many different aspects of the great empire. From explaining Rome’s expansion, the significant architecture and military designs, and great leaders. Mary Beard explains the legendary founders of the city of Rome, Romulus and Remus. With this elaborate speculations of the city’s origins and the mythical story of the twin brothers suckled by a wolf, this legend presents a strong message about Rome’s conquest and

For example, rams were built into the ships bows which would ram the enemy vessels and would at times be nicely decorated which Roman officialdom. A Roman helmet proved to be an interesting object because it would protect the fighters face and can bring them close to an individual in a battle. Devious and dangerous devices such as the caltrop or ancient version of landmines which is an antipersonnel weapon made up of two or more sharp nails or spines were used, mainly used to slow the advance of horses, war elephants, and human troops. They were particularly effective against the soft feet of fighters with their sandals getting punctured and secured in that person's foot unable to remove. The points goes through your foot and is unable to remove due to a compact barb leaving them dead fast. Roman priority and mindset was to get their own way. So when Rome set it's sights on Greece it was something more than economic profit, but something much more valuable, a vulture the Romans deeply craved and desired. This is where the familiarization of the Rome with the white marble columns, elegant statues, jewelry and glassware. Rome would follow Greek culture, wrote themselves into the Greek story and the Romans took the character Aeneas, a character who played a somewhat minor part on the losing Trojan side in Homer's Iliad, a famous Greek literature work. The story gave the Romans a place in the traditions of Greece, one in which they cemented themselves into their history. One Roman poet even claimed that the Greeks were supposedly the ones who conquered Rome, instead of the other way around, since Rome owed such a deep and vast cultural depth to the Greeks. This proved that there is simply more to conquest than conquest by sword, but conquest by book, world and culture. Rome’s government was first ruled by kings, with Romulus to be the first and six others