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Back to SearchLost Roman Heroes - Episode 72 : Leo the Butcher
Season 3 Episode 72
Born of humble stock, elevated to the purple to be a puppet of Aspar, the barbarian power behind the Eastern Empire's throne, Leo had other thoughts …
1 year, 1 month ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 71: Aegidius & Syagrius
Season 3 Episode 71
Aegidius and Syagrius, father and son warriors, born of an ancient Roman-Gaul senatorial lineage, would keep the dream of Rome alive in Gaul long aft…
1 year, 1 month ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 70: Honorable Mentions (Part 2)
Season 2 Episode 70
Join Lost Roman Heroes for Part 2 of our Honorable Mentions series, and meet some of the most remarkable Romans you never heard of: Pope Leo I (stood…
1 year, 2 months ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 69: Honorable Mentions (Part I)
Season 2 Episode 69
Lost Roman Heroes get their own episode, true, but as Season 2 draws to close we admit that we made some mistakes. We missed some guys, sad but true…
1 year, 2 months ago
Lost Roman Heroes: Episode 68 - Why The West Fell
Season 2 Episode 68
A special episode in which we @lostromanheroes get to the heart of the question that has vexed proper, professional historians for centuries - 'why e…
1 year, 3 months ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 67: Majorian (Part 2)
Season 2 Episode 67
Having inherited a bankrupt Western Empire, with no treasury, no army, no popular support, and no civitas, Majorian sets about achieving the impossib…
1 year, 3 months ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 66: Majorian (Part 1)
Season 2 Episode 66
Majorian was a young Italian commander who served with distinction under Aetius as the great general tried to piece the West back together again. Wh…
1 year, 3 months ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 65: Aetius (Part 2)
Season 2 Episode 65
Aetius maneuvers himself to the top of the power structure in the West, only to be brought low by Galla Placidia and loyal Bonfatius. After sufferin…
1 year, 4 months ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 64: Aetius (Part 1)
Season 2 Episode 64
This is the man that even contemporaries referred to as THE LAST ROMAN. Only son of General Gaudentius, born in Durostorum, a frontier fortress on t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 63: Galla Placidia
Season 2 Episode 63
Granddaughter of bear-loving Emperor Valentinian I, granddaughter of last-of-the-mohicans Count Theodosius, and daughter of Emperor Theodosius who sa…
1 year, 5 months ago