Podcast Episodes

Episode CCXVII - Angeronalia

Yes, it’s that festive time of year again, when you gather all ye merry people with sore throats, stand around a statue with its mouth covered, and k…

2 years, 3 months ago

Episode CCXVI - A Roman Haunting in Three Parts

A dire warning from the spirit of Africa! A Haunting in Athens! And someone cuts the hair of Pliny's freedman.

Pliny the Younger presents a Roman Hau…

2 years, 4 months ago

Episode CCXV - The Unconquered Sun

Aurelian is known as a conqueror, a general and a restorer, and his reputation is based on those achievements. But in his short rule of five years, h…

2 years, 5 months ago

Episode CCXIV - Aurelian, Restorer of the Age

Aurelian has seen off vandals, goths, and conquered the forces of Zenobia to reclaim the east. But to the west lies the Gallic Empire, once firm terr…

2 years, 6 months ago

Episode CCXIII - Zenobia

The weakness of Rome was the strength of Palmyra, and the east came to be be ruled by the Queen Zenobia. Cultured and ambitious, her empire stretched…

2 years, 7 months ago

Episode CCXII - Aurelian, the Restorer of the World

Aurelian became Emperor of a fractured empire. To the west the Gallic Empire had been established ten years earlier, the eastern provinces were now c…

2 years, 8 months ago

Episode CCXI - Claudius Gothicus

The treacherous death of Gallienus saw the rise of a man of war. Claudius Gothicus definitely earned his title, but with a reign of only two years pe…

2 years, 8 months ago

Episode CCX - A Lesson in Latin III

What Latin words and concepts for time are still with us today?

Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe Uni…

2 years, 9 months ago

Episode CCIX - A Diminished Rome

While much of the Roman Empire was lost during the rule of Gallienus, We don't really know how much of that is his fault, or really get a sense of hi…

2 years, 10 months ago

Episode CCVIII - Odaenathus, King of Kings

As the Roman empire lost the western provinces something very different was happening in the east. Odaenathus remained on the side of Rome, but assum…

2 years, 10 months ago