Mary Beard Introduces Us to a Resident of Ancient Rome - Meet the Romans with Mary Beard - BBC Two

so how did Rome's massive consumption change life in the city well for one thing because of all the best times in history to be a baker and it's a baker who left one of the strangest moments in Rome now hidden beneath one of the main city gates it's the tomb monument of a man called Marcus virgilius yarissa Keith he's almost certainly an ex-slave and he was a baker and a contractor he must have made a whole pile of money in that job otherwise he wouldn't be able to afford to like this what you're risky's has done is given himself a theme to at the very top or around the monument there were scenes from the life of the bakery it's the kneading putting the bread in the oven weighing the stuff out and even these are the strange circles and columns underneath will be instantly recognizable to a Roman as bakery equipment the circles aroma certainly the kneading machines and the columns are the bins in which the dough is kneaded what that says in Latin is this is the two of your wrist keys the baker and contractor apparent it's obvious or what I think we'd say this is the monument of a baker get it and I really like the way that get it still speaks to us 2,000 years later have we got that this is the tomb of a baker yeah

Channel: BBC

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Keywords: ''Mary, Beard'', Ancient, Rome, ''Meet, the, Romans'', ''BBC, Two'', history, classics, bbc, documentary

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Length: 1min 50sec (110 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 10 2012