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Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 92: Gregory of Tours
Season 3 Episode 93
Gallo-Roman aristocrat, Bishop and Saint, Gregory kept a small flame alive in what had been Roman Gaul as the darkness fell in the 6th century with t…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 91: Tiberius II
Tiberius was a handsome young man, born into a humble Thracian family in post-plague Rome. He enters the civil service as a notarius, and quickly ri…
4 months, 1 week ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 90: Belisarius, Man Behind the Myth with Dr. David Parnell
Season 3 Episode 90
Belisarius. Who was the man behind the myth? Are we right to feel uncharitably towards Antonina and Narses? Why did Justinian treat his best genera…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 89: Procopius
Season 3 Episode 89
Procopius was raised in Caesarea, the capital of Rome's Palaestina province, and was likely educated in Gaza and Beirut. A lawyer by training, he w…
5 months, 1 week ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 88: Justinian (Part 3 - Judgement Day)
Season 3 Episode 88
The year is 542AD and Rome has just gone through its Thanos-moment - one out of every two Romans disappeared over the course of one fateful summer, a…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 87: Justinian (Part 2 - the Apogee)
Season 3 Episode 87
We leave behind Belisarius, Justinian's avenging angel, and return to the Emperor's story. The year is 532AD and Constantinople still smolders in th…
6 months, 1 week ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 86: Belisarius (Part 5)
Season 3 Episode 86
Recalled to Constantinople to lead Rome's response to Persian aggression, Belisarius arrives just in time for Mother Nature to unleash the most vicio…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 85: Belisarius (Part 4)
Season 3 Episode 85
The day is March 12th of 538AD, and General Belisarius has just accomplished the impossible. Not only did he survive a year long siege behind Rome’s…
7 months ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 84: Belisarius (Part 3)
Season 3 Episode 84
Rome is under siege! With a force of some five thousand Roman soldiers, Belisarius is put under siege by a >100k man Goth force under King Vitiges. …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 83: Belsarius (Part 2)
Season 3 Episode 83
Belisarius has accomplished the heretofore impossible, with a small force of his handpicked and trained elite troops he has defeated the Vandals and …
8 months ago