Episode 21: The Queen of Bithynia
Gaius Julius Caesar is super famous. If you know one Roman, you know him. This is the story of his youth.
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Episode 20: The Spartacus One-Shot
We're re-publishing our earlier podcast dealing with Spartacus, because it sort of makes sense.
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Episode 19: Pompey, the Joker, and the Riddler
Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus, classical antiquity's greatest also-ran, gets examined in a hip, refreshing biographical...
The Social War ravages Italy, then Marius and Cinna pi$$ off the wrong Cornelian. Also, Mithridates is there.
The Gracchi brothers live fast, die young while redefining the Plebeian Tribunate. Then Marius saves Rome from...
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Episode 16: Curmudgeons and the Third Punic War
The Romans will expand ever Eastward, in a backwards understanding of Manifest Destiny. At the end they'll realize...
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Episode 15: The Second Punic War Part II
The Second Punic War was a huge deal! This podcast was a doozy, so we split it into twain parts. This is the second.
Episode 14: The Second Punic War Part I
The Second Punic War was a huge deal! This podcast was a doozy, so we split it into twain parts. This is the first.
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Episode 13: The First Punic War
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to real history. We kick off our new series of podcasts chronicling not made up events...
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Episode 12: Fifty Years of Samnites
Deprava takes a vacation, so Sagramore and Aemilia tackle the 3 Samnite wars as a bident of Roman history.We're...
Episode 11: The Licinian and Sextian Laws
Well, we're back into boring nothingness happening for a stretch of time. Lots of fighting with interchangeable...
Episode 10: Camillus and the Sack of Rome
What's this, things happen? Why yes, thanks to the newly discovered ability to "skip the boring parts," we finally...
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Episode 9: Wait, Military Tribunes?
The period that will never end continues. Only 200 more years before we get to actual history. Meanwhile, here are...
Episode 8: Appius Claudius, History's Biggest Jerk
And now we come to the tale of Appius Claudius, and how he was the Platonic Form of asshole. Note: We're incorrect...
Episode 7: Cincinnatus, Eventually
Finally, we get to someone you might have heard of, the dictator Cincinnatus. But first we go through yet more wars...
Episode 6: Ten Years of War and Agrarian Laws
And now we cover a decade's worth of Livy probably making a lot of stuff up. We first run into agrarian laws, the...
Episode 5: The Death of Publicola to the Tale of Coriolanus
More of the Early Republic era, where most stories are made up parables about how it's good to support the state and...
Episode 4: The Birth of the Republic to the Death of Publicola
Having expelled the monarchy, the fledgeling Roman Republic takes its first steps, which mostly include going to war...
A double dose of podcasts this time. We continue our Roman History series with the conclusion of the Monarchy period,...
A double dose of podcasts this time. We continue our Roman History series with the conclusion of the Monarchy period,...