May 7, 2026
On this episode, we wrap up the fall of Jerusalem in September 70 CE — Titus strolls into the ruins, declares Yahweh helped him destroy Yahweh’s own temple, and the boys go deep on the genuinely wild linguistic coincidence that the Roman sky-god Jove and the...
Apr 16, 2026
This week we finally reach the end of the Siege of Jerusalem — and it’s brutal. Titus storms the upper city, the rebels’ back is broken, Simon and John have vanished into the tunnels, and by September 25th, 70 CE, the city is rubble and the Temple is gone...
Oct 25, 2025
In this special Life of Caesar episode, Cameron and Ray step out of their usual Roman timeline to talk with Matthew and Matteo Storm from The Lost Roman Heroes Podcast about Emperor Gallienus — one of the most underrated rulers of the Roman Empire. Together, they...
Oct 17, 2024
It’s time to do a bio on Titus Flavius Vespasianus. He wasn’t very ambitious as a young man and only joined the Cursus Honorum because his mother drove him to it through sarcasm, constantly taunting him that he wasn’t as good as his older brother. He...
Aug 25, 2024
ChatGPT gives us Shakespeare’s version of Otho’s last speech, while the news of his demise makes its way to Rome and everyone yawns and swears an oath of loyalty to the third guy to be declared emperor since the death of Nero less than a year earlier. If...
Jan 16, 2021
This is the story of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. Known to us as Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. Or just “Nero”. On this episode, we ask – how is it possible that a man tutored and guided by one of the most famous Stoic philosophers, Seneca, would end...
