WHEN IN ROME!

We team up with top history buff to assess how the celebs would have fared in classical antiquity

ASK anyone from Land’s End to John O’Groats where they would go if they suddenly had access to a time machine, and the answer will always be the same: THE WILD WEST! But for the sake of this article, we’re going to say the answer is ANCIENT ROME. This dangerous – yet glamorous – period of history quite simply has it all: war, death, glory, political turmoil, snazzy clothes, glitzy palaces, mass orgies, and best of all, big fuck-off chariots with all swords coming out the wheels. “It’s an utterly compelling turning point in modern civilisation,” agrees amateur historian PEVERSLEY CAPS-LOCK. Clinically obese Peversley has devoted his entire life to studying the Roman Empire. From producing an acclaimed glitter-and-glue-based collage of a centurion at primary school, to regularly googling pictures…

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