Vainy, vidi, vici...

Julius Caesar was every bit as vain as the next man, trying to hide his bald patch with a comb-over, Mary Beard discovers.

And the influence of the ruler, victim of assassination in 44BC, lives on to this day. In BBC Two programme Julius Caesar Revealed on February 12, Mary finds there is nothing new about Vladimir Putin’s carefully cultivated image nor in Donald Trump’s tweets and slogans.