ancient rome

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Ancient Sources: Tacitus: Germania (Thomas Gordon translation) The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus (J. C. Rolfe [...Read More...]

The Roman Empire stood for a thousand years. Many causes have been given for its downfall—but if just one group of people could be said to be culpable, it would be the [...Read More...]

In Enemy of My Dreams, Jenny based her heroine Julia partially on Julia the Elder—rebellious daughter of Augustus who got herself exiled to Pandateria for being, as the [...Read More...]

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During the ancient Roman Republic and into the Empire, there was a place all the fabulously wealthy went. An escape from the real world. A place where they could unleash all [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Check out History is Sexy and Dr. Emma Southon’s website for more info about her books and work! Her most recent book, A Rome of One’s Own: the [...Read More...]

Become a Patron!   Pompeii: The Last Day (BBC Documentary) Real History – Vesuvius Reconstructed (Documentary)  Asolute History: What is was actually  like to [...Read More...]

You’ve been transported almost 2,000 years into the past, to the streets of Pompeii. It’s a brisk autumn morning, around, oh…10 AM…and all hell is about to break [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here is a helpful documentary: Other sources include: Pseudo-Dionysus of Tel Mahre: Chronicle. Translated by Witold Whitakowski “Yersinia pestis and [...Read More...]

This is an episode about a plague that killed up to 100 million people by the time it was done—as many as 60% of its victims. It’s the first documented occurrence of a [...Read More...]