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Encountering the evidence: Rome in poetry

How can we use poetry as evidence when researching the past? Watch Dr Matthew Nicholls and Dr Luke Houghton discuss poetry in ancient Rome.

In the second of our ‘Encountering the Evidence videos’, I meet with Dr Luke Houghton in the Ure Museum at the University of Reading to discuss poetry in ancient Rome.

In the next Step, we’ll look at some of these poems in more detail. Don’t forget to ‘mark this Step as complete’.

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