roman history

Become a Patron! Here is a picture of the Rubicon in winter, when Julius Caesar crossed it. No idea if this is the same river. Our modern sources for this episode include: [...Read More...]

After an epic quarter-life crisis, Julius Caesar returned to Rome and started to kick things up a notch—winning honors, elections, and the love of the public. But as his [...Read More...]

Of the six children of Germanicus, Agrippina the Younger is the last woman standing. Both savvier than her siblings and more ruthless, she quickly rises to stratospheric [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Just for amusement’s sake, here’s a clip of that scene from Harry Potter where the kids repot a mandrake: Interestingly enough, everything in [...Read More...]

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...]