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Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 82: Belisarius (Part 1)
Season 3 Episode 82
Belisarius. Just one name required, in the realm of other one-named immortals, like 'Jordan', 'Ali', 'Caesar', and so on. But this guy is a one-nam…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 81: The Cabinet
Season 3 Episode 81
The Emperor Justinian had the grandest of grand dreams, but he could not achieve them alone. The resurrection of the Western Empire was such an exce…
9 months ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 80: Justinian I (Part 1 - The Rise)
Season 3 Episode 80
A fresh faced boy from war torn Tauresium finds himself in Constantinople, the capital of the Roman Empire, adopted son of a swineherd, making his wa…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 79: Anicia Juliana
Season 3 Episode 79
How can you begin to describe one of the most remarkable women in history, let alone one of the most remarkable Roman women? Raised by two empresses…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 78: Boethius
Season 3 Episode 78
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was a polymath philosopher and scion of one of Rome's most ancient families. Along with his father in law Symmac…
10 months, 1 week ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 77: Theodoric the Great
Season 3 Episode 77
A Goth prince raised in the Imperial Palace in Constantinople, Theodoric the Amal consolidated control of the Ostrogoths, and then journeyed west at …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 76: Thessalonica [Lost Roman Cities]
Season 3 Episode 76
A LOST ROMAN CITIES special episode on Roman Thessalonica. Founded by Cassander, named after the younger sister of Alexander the Great, this city wou…
11 months, 1 week ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 75: Anastasius
Season 3 Episode 75
Anastasius Dicorus - a finance dude - saw a wildly complex world very clearly through one blue eye and one black, steering the empire through perilou…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 74: Zeno
Season 3 Episode 74
Called down from the mountainous badlands of Isauria to Constantinople by the Emperor Leo, Tarasis son of Kodissa, later known as Zeno, would have to…
1 year ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 73: Ambrosius Aurelianus
Season 3 Episode 73
Emperor Honorius told Britannia to see to its own defenses and the darkness fell on the island. With the Picts and Saxons overrunning Rome's forgott…
1 year ago