roman history

He was a fierce barbarian warlord—a man who had stood between his people and the Roman Empire since the sack of Rome. She was a Roman Imperial princess with a core of iron [...Read More...]

OK. I wasn’t going to do this (this is Jenny writing), but Genn insisted that I include my ultra-secret Alaric theme song, “Meridian” by Zola [...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...]

Some of Rome’s child emperors became tyrants. Others were taken advantage of by stronger regents and family members–frequently with tragic results. In this [...Read More...]

  First off, here’s a little Monty Python goodness. One imagines that the siege of Aquileia went down more or less like this (although historians are mixed as to [...Read More...]

Hey, thanks for listening! We hope you enjoyed the episode! First off, here’s what these people looked like: Caracalla Elagabalus They look so different. Elagabalus is [...Read More...]