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Left Leanings
20th April 2012, 14:44
There is a new TV series on Romans:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/rome/9216363/Rome-ancient-life-in-a-modern-city.html

This is a bit different from the usual sort of documentary series, cos it focuses not on the grand people in their palaces, and the great monuments. It looks at the lives of ordinary Romans.

Ancient Rome was home to a million people. Most of them lived in jerry-built tower blocks, that lined narrow streets. There was little in way of services such as refuse collection, police, and only amateur firefighters.

Roman civilization is often presented as grand. It was if you were rich, of cos. But here is a closer look at what have been dubbed the 'high-rise' (as in high-rise blocks of council flats) Romans.

Anarcho-Brocialist
21st April 2012, 17:31
Will it play in the states?

Manic Impressive
21st April 2012, 17:41
who knows it might be on BBC-USA or whatever that channel is called. But it's not that good tbh, it was mildly interesting but wasn't as good as I expected. I was sitting there thinking "urgh if only she could apply just a little Marxian analysis to her explanations she might actually be able to say why things happened, instead of just going wasn't it strange that things are not exactly the same as they are now." You could always use a British proxy and watch it on BBC i-player. But yeah I was disappointed and won't be clamouring to see episode 2.

Anarcho-Brocialist
21st April 2012, 17:48
who knows it might be on BBC-USA or whatever that channel is called. But it's not that good tbh, it was mildly interesting but wasn't as good as I expected. I was sitting there thinking "urgh if only she could apply just a little Marxian analysis to her explanations she might actually be able to say why things happened, instead of just going wasn't it strange that things are not exactly the same as they are now." You could always use a British proxy and watch it on BBC i-player. But yeah I was disappointed and won't be clamouring to see episode 2.

I thought it would consist of the need of the peasantry or the society would fall (like how it really occurred) [the food and materials were unable to get to the roman capitol], but if it's just a comparison of ancient to modern times, then there's no need to view.

I wouldn't expect BBC to display any kind of Marxian thought, I bet they spoke of the Capitalist system, maybe some class antagonisms?