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Episode 121 – Strength in Unity
The year 446 BCE has it all – battles, civil strife, virtus, dynamic leadership… Rome is certainly on a better path after the mysterious and seemingl…
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 120 – Rebels Without a Cause
After spending many, many episodes on the events of 449 BCE, we are now flying through multiple years in ONE episode! Ah, the ups and downs of the ea…
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 119 – The Triumphant Return of the Consulship
Rome is still in the depths in 449 BCE, but there's been an epic turn of events. Appius Claudius may be dead, but what happens next? We're here to fi…
4 years, 3 months ago
Special Episode – Women and Money with Professor Karen Carr
We sat down recently to have a conversation with Professor Karen Carr who is Emerita at Portland State University. She holds a doctorate in Classical…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 118 – The Death of Appius Claudius
Appius Claudius: what a man, what a couple of decemvirates! But while the title of this episode might have given some things away, it's all about how…
4 years, 4 months ago
Special Episode – Disruption with David Potter
Disruption is at the heart of great changes in human society. How might we understand disruption? How can we recognise it? And just what historical p…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 117 – The Death of the Decemvirate
We have been trapped under the tyrannical rule of the Second Decemvirate for too long!
But never fear, listeners. Their day has finally come. In this…
4 years, 5 months ago
Special Episode – Pompeii with Professor Ray Laurence
We sit down to talk to the fabulous Professor Ray Laurence from Macquarie University in this special episode about urban space in Pompeii and the pla…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 116 – The Second Secession
CW: The accounts of Verginia include paedophilic desire and violence against women.
The Second Secession is a contested moment in Roman's early republ…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 115 – The Anatomy of a Murder
CW: The accounts of Virginia include paedophilic desire and violence against women.
Virginia has been murdered by her own father in the Forum in an at…
4 years, 7 months ago