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Bloodshed And Destruction

Season 6 Episode 14

Boudicea wins round one. But Suetonius has bloodshed and destruction on his mind.

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4 years, 7 months ago

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Badass Boudicea

Season 6 Episode 13

Corbulo finishes round one in Armenia and gets a promotion. Meanwhile in Britain, a certain queen decides to take on the Romans - Boudicea. Exactly w…

4 years, 8 months ago

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Filthy Rabble

Season 6 Episode 12

Agrippina is dead and Nero decides to party. Tacitus disapproves. He doesn’t like Nero’s parties and he doesn’t like his poetry. But then a comet app…

4 years, 8 months ago

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Stephen Dando-Collins

Season 6 Episode 11

Stephen Dando-Collins is an Australian historical author, who, like me, once sold his soul to the gods of marketing and advertising but has been rede…

4 years, 9 months ago

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All Manner Of Depravity

Season 6 Episode 10

We examine the circumstances and theories surrounding the death of Agrippina.

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4 years, 9 months ago

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Salacious Stories

Season 6 Episode 7

Tacitus shares some Salacious Stories from Nero's Rome in the year 58 CE - mostly about ambitious women.

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4 years, 11 months ago

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Fight Club

Season 6 Episode 5

Nero starts his own Fight Club. Apart from that, the years of 56 - 58 were pretty good. Nero made some wise decisions (no doubt with the help of Sene…

5 years ago

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Nero The Murderer

Season 6 Episode 4

This is where the story becomes really weird. Nero, up until now the golden child, suddenly becomes a cold murderer with the murder of Britannicus.

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5 years ago

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Nero In Love

Season 6 Episode 3

In the first year of his rule, Nero was a big hit. He built a wooden amphitheatre in the Campus Martius, flooded it, and held a naval battle with sea…

5 years, 1 month ago

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Nice Guy Nero

Season 6 Episode 2

Nero becomes emperor on the murder of his step-father. He’s 16 or 17 years old. Why didn’t the Senate stop him? It might have something to do with Se…

5 years, 2 months ago

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