We think we know what it was like to rule – and be ruled – in the Ancient Roman world.We think we know that Roman values and ideas formed the cornerstone of Western civilisation.We are wrong.In this special episode of the How To Academy podcast Cambridge’s Mary Beard and Oxford’s Josephine Quinn transport us back to the ancient world and reveal a new story of the origins of the West.Mary Beard explores what power really looked like in the Roman Empire, what it really meant to be in the shoes of Caligula, Nero, and Marcus Aurelius, and why we know so much about the everyday lives of Romans.Her fellow classicist, Oxford Professor Josephine Quinn, revises the stale paradigm of the formation of Western values, shedding light on the unexpected development of civilisation in a story that needs to be heard to be believed.Don’t miss this exclusive chance to join two of the most renowned historians of our age as they reveal a luminous and thrilling new history of our world.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices