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Nero #28 – Piso Falls
Nero hunts down the main conspirators. Some of them are captured, while others help execute their own colleagues without betraying their allegiance to the cause. Piso is urged…
Nero #27 – A Betrayal Betrayed
The plot against Nero continues to gather momentum but is finally betrayed by a freedman, a day before shit was about to go down.
Nero #26 – The Circus Games (take 3)
When one of the praetorian prefects joins the conspirators, they decide it's time to act. But they can't agree on a plan. It takes a woman to move…
Nero #25 – Effeminate Vice
We’re talking about the Pisonian Conspiracy of 65. Who started it and why? Theories involve an angry poet and an angry gay man seeking revenge.
NERO #24 – The Pisonian Conspiracy
Nero has some freedmen executed but the stories are murky. The Parthians decide to try their luck taking back Armenia while Corbulo tries to keep the peace.
NERO #23 – The Great Fire Of Rome
Nero has some freedmen executed but the stories are murky. The Parthians decide to try their luck taking back Armenia while Corbulo tries to keep the peace.
Review: “Bar Kokhba, The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome”
Friend of the show, Lindsay Powell, has a new work of investigative history, “Bar Kokhba, The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome”. Like Lindsay’s…
NERO #22 – CONSTANTINE AT THE BRIDGE
Nero has some freedmen executed but the stories are murky. The Parthians decide to try their luck taking back Armenia while Corbulo tries to keep the peace.
NERO #21 – PROMISCUOUS THONG
Nero has some freedmen executed but the stories are murky. The Parthians decide to try their luck taking back Armenia while Corbulo tries to keep the peace.
Nero #20 – BEAST OF BURDEN
Nero has some freedmen executed but the stories are murky. The Parthians decide to try their luck taking back Armenia while Corbulo tries to keep the peace.
Who are Barry & Stan?
We often get asked "Who the hell are Barry & Stan?" And, of course, that is the question that people have been asking for thousands of years… the…
Nero #19 – OH NO MENS
Nero has some freedmen executed but the stories are murky. The Parthians decide to try their luck taking back Armenia while Corbulo tries to keep the peace.
Nero #18 – Eternal Decline Part 2
This is part two of a massive two-and-a-half-hour chat we had recently Edward J. Watts, a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and author…
Nero #17 – Eternal Decline Part 1
Edward J. Watts is a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and author and editor of several prize-winning books, including THE FINAL PAGAN GENERATION,…
Nero #16 – Your Filthy Little Mouth
With Seneca out of the way, Tigellinus brings down the other prefect, Rufus. To strengthen his relationship with Nero, he increases his paranoia about the two men Nero…
Nero #15 – 400 Slaves
In the year 61, Nero deals with riots, treason, Stoics and the death of one of his key advisors.
Nero #14 – Bloodshed And Destruction
Boudicea wins round one. But Suetonius has bloodshed and destruction on his mind.
Nero #13 – Badass Boudicea
Corbulo finishes round one in Armenia and gets a promotion. Meanwhile in Britain, a certain queen decides to take on the Romans – Boudicea. Exactly why, though, is…
Nero #12 – Filthy Rabble
Agrippina is dead and Nero decides to party. Tacitus disapproves. He doesn’t like Nero’s parties and he doesn’t like his poetry. But then a comet appears, and everyone…
Nero #11 – Stephen Dando-Collins
Stephen Dando-Collins is an Australian historical author, who, like me, once sold his soul to the gods of marketing and advertising but has been redeeming himself ever since.…