praetorian guard

In this episode, it’s Roman Emperors behaving badly–and Praetorian Prefects behaving even worse. Beginning with Caligula, Emperors were assaulted in their homes, [...Read More...]

So…yeah. Sometimes Genn and I will look at each other after an episode ends and go, “did all that actually happen?” This was definitely one of those. Our [...Read More...]

The Praetorian Guard was the elite military unit tasked with protecting the Emperors of Rome–except when they held the assassin’s blade themselves. The [...Read More...]

Thanks for listening! We hope you enjoyed that story as much as we enjoyed putting it together. We relied pretty heavily on Ross Cowan’s Roman Guardsman: 62 BC-AD 324. [...Read More...]