Amy Kemp

The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of imperial China and survived wars, revolution, fires, and earthquakes. How did the Ming Emperor’s workforce construct its sprawling array of nearly 1,000 buildings and dozens of temples in a little over a decade?

Mary Beard nos demostrará qué hay de verdad y qué de mito alrededor de las leyendas que han llegado hasta hoy que retratan la figura del emperador romano Calígula (12-41) como la de un déspota desequilibrado.