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Hello, everyone.
It's Tom Holland here,
and I have teamed up with The Great Mary Beard to bring you Four episodes on what we together have decided are the four most iconic themes in ancient history.
And today we are looking at the Trojan War.
Here's a short extract of that episode.
Hello everybody and welcome to Layton House in Kensington in London.
It's a gorgeous, beautiful, very grand house full of Arabic touches and classical touches,
gorgeous garden where we had an Athelstan party.
And we've come here because we need a sumptuous location for an imperious guest.
And that guest is the most famous classicist in the world.
And a woman to whom I owe personally an enormous amount
because she was the person who first read Rubicon,
my first book on classical history.
in manuscript and so ever since I've been incredibly grateful to her as well
as being her biggest fan and it is of course.