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Emperors of Rome

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Emperors of Rome

Episode CXXVIII - Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (Gracchi I)

What we do know about Cornelia is mostly through the lens of her famous sons, but to the Romans...

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Episode CXXVII - Augustus: The Making of an Emperor (Live in Melbourne)

Octavian was barely an adult when he arrived in Rome in 44BCE. Two months had passed since his...

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Episode CXXVI -Vestal Virgins

The Vestals were an order of priestesses who were sacred to Rome, and were respected and referred...

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Episode CXXV - Call Me Not a Lord, for I Am a Lady (Elagabalus III)

Elagabalus has long been remembered as deviant and sexually depraved. His behaviour was shocking...

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Episode CXXIV – The Lowest Depths of Foulness (Elagabalus II)

When Elagabalus finally reached Rome, the city seemed to hold its breath. The young Emperor...

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Episode CXXIII - Here Comes the Sun (Elagabalus I)

Macrinus has made a treaty with the Parthians and at long last, the two mighty empires are at...

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Episode CXXII - Purple by Merit

With the murder of Caracalla one of the most unlikely men steps into power. Macrinus is...

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Episode CXXI - Assassination

Assassination was a regular occurrence in the right Roman circles, and the gossip around the...

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Episode CXX - Adultery

By modern standards the Romans had some fairly unusual ideas, which could be putting it mildly...

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Episode CXIX - Fragments of Early Roman Literature

While we are lucky that much Roman literature from the late republic and the imperial period...

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Episode CXVIII - The Roman Calendar

The Roman calendar was important to the civic management of Rome - it told when to plant and...

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Episode CXVII – Disgraced Human Nature (Caracalla V)

The historian Edward Gibbon perhaps summed up Caracalla quite succinctly, when he used this...

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Episode CXV - Red Wedding (Caracalla IV)

The Roman Empire had engaged in Parthian wars for generations, stretching back, off and on, to...

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Episode CXV - Ausonian Beast (Caracalla III)

After unleashing his unique brand of rule on the people of Rome, Caracalla becomes the problem of...

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Episode CXIV - Mutilating Rome

Now that Caracalla is the sole emperor of the Roman empire he’s able to act as he wishes. While...

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Episode CXIII - Fratricidal Discord

The death of Septimius Severus left a strong line of succession with two sons ready to take...

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Episode CXII - The Book of Love

The Roman poet Ovid penned The Book of Love in three volumes as a manual for how to deal with the...

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Episode CXI - The Equestrian Order

The equites belonged to a class of Roman citizen dating back to the kingdom of Rome. Ranked below...

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Episode CX - Anthology of Interest

The ultimate triumvirate! Three people present three Roman history topics each for three minutes....

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Episode CIX - Saturnalia

Saturnalia was the biggest festival on the Roman calendar - that special time in December when...

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