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Pliny's Guide to Menstrual Magic – Vespasian #25
This episode we go deep on the hilltop fortresses still holding out in Judaea after the fall of Jerusalem, which turns into a very long detour through Pliny…
A River of Gold – Vespasian #24
We're covering the triumph of Vespasian and Titus, and our eyewitness is Josephus…. a Jewish priest who watched Rome parade the looted contents of his own temple down…
The God in the Dog Mask – Vespasian #23
This episode we're deep in the Temple of Isis – which turns out to be exactly where Vespasian and Titus had to spend the night before their joint…
Titus' Victory Tour – Vespasian #22
Titus wraps up the Jewish War with a five-month tour of the region, dropping in on city after city with two legions at his back and thousands of…
The Last Man Standing – Vespasian #21
Vespasian is finally making his way back to Rome and apparently every city he passes through absolutely loses its goddamn mind…. according to Josephus who is, of course,…
CROWNS FROM THE TEMPLE – Vespasian #20
On this episode, the siege of Jerusalem is over and Titus is handing out medals, melting down temple gold to crown his best soldiers, and carving up his…
YHWH v JOVE – Vespasian #19
On this episode, Cameron and Ray wrap up the fall of Jerusalem in September 70 CE — Titus strolls into the ruins, declares Yahweh helped him destroy Yahweh's…
UNLEASH THE CARL – Vespasian #18
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…
Gallienus: The Pragmatist Who Kept Rome Alive
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…
Vitellius #5 – The Mule Guy
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…
Vitellius #1 – The Third New Emperor
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…
Nero #1 – The Last OG
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…
Claudius #1 – The Monster
The first 50 years of Tiberius Claudius Nero's life was a mixture of wealth, power and cruelty. With symptoms similar to cerebral palsy, the young Claudius was called…
Caligula Caesar #1 – The Movie (Part 1)
To kick off our Caligula series, we are doing a commentary on the 1979 epic film, CALIGULA. Written by Gore Vidal, directed by Tinto Brass, produced by Bob…
Tiberius Caesar #1 – Killing Aggy P
And so it was that in the year 767 Ab Urb Condita, 14 AD if you’re a Christian, or 14 CE if you’re secular Or, if you were…
Augustus Caesar #01 – Introduction
On the 19th August, 14 CE, 767 years after the founding of Rome, nearly exactly 2001 years ago, the first Emperor of Rome, Augustus, finally died, at 75…
Julius Caesar #1 – An Introduction To Caesar
Welcome to our first episode! Think of this as a general introduction to Julius Caesar. We discuss a lot of myths and misconceptions that people might have about…