Being Roman with Mary Beard: Death on the Nile

Historian T. Corey Brennan and archaeologist Elizabeth Fentress join Mary as she unravels the story of the death of Antinous, emperor Hadrian's male lover. During a cruise down the Nile with Julia Balbilla, a court poet, Antinous drowned in the river but it is unknown whether he slipped from the deck or was murdered by jealous rivals