Podcast Episodes

Episode LXXXIX - A Man the World Could Not Hold

Determined to end his time as Emperor on a high note, Septimius Severus sets his sights on what is one of the few places in the empire having trouble…

8 years, 1 month ago

Episode LXXXVIII – Severan Stories II

Three completely different events in the reign of Septimius Severus.

Act I – If you build it they will come

Septimius Severus was establishing a dyna…

8 years, 1 month ago

Episode LXXXVII – Severan Stories I

Three different events in the reign of Septimius Severus.

Act I - A hair of the beard

Gaius Fulvius Plautianus was a trusted relative of Septimius wh…

8 years, 1 month ago

Episode LXXXVI – Ascent to Greatness, However Steep and Dangerous

Septimius Severus is now ruler or Rome without opposition, had been all things, and all was of little value. He is now distracted with the care, not …

8 years, 3 months ago

Episode LXXXV - Black and White

Septimius Severus is proclaimed the new Emperor of Rome, but doesn’t have time to rest on his laurels. With rivals to the east and west, not to menti…

8 years, 3 months ago

Episode LXXXIV – The African Emperor

The Roman Empire shudders in the wake of Commodus’ death, which if you recall, was a matter of months but a whole two emperors ago. Striding into Rom…

8 years, 4 months ago

Episode LXXXIII – Didius Julianus

Enraged at the lack of a decent bonus, the Praetorian Guard cut down the newly installed Emperor Pertinax and resolve to sell the throne to the highe…

8 years, 4 months ago

Episode LXXXII - Pertinax

Many saw Pertinax as a safe pair of hands to hold the empire - an old general and close advisor of Antoninus Pius, he represented a regime change fro…

8 years, 5 months ago

Episode LXXXI - Livy

Livy was an historian writing during the Augustan age of Rome, who wrote one of the empire’s most famous works – an extensive and exhaustive history,…

8 years, 5 months ago

Episode LXXX - Dio Cassius

For much of our journey through the Antonine dynasty we’ve had Dio Cassius as our guide. As both a historian and a senator, Dio had a ringside seat t…

8 years, 6 months ago