In today's brief episode we're setting the stage for the campaigns portion of Season 1 (Season 1B)

Pompey

Caesar

Trajan

Aurelian

Belisarius

Heraclius

Settle in for a fun ride!

In today's episode we discuss 3 Roman Triumph's with Jackie. We lean on her expertise to discuss the art and material culture represented in the respective triumph's.

For more information Pompey's Triumph, please check out 'Plutarch's Lives,' and Pliny the Elder's Natural History.

For more information on Caesar's quadruple triumph, please check out Suetonius' Life of Caesar and Cassius Dio's 'Roman History.'

For more information on the joint Flavian Triumph, please read Josephus and Cassius Dio.

If you can, and are able, please visit the Roman Forum and take a gander at the Arch of Titus. Breathtakingly amazing!

Happy Father's Day! Today we're joining the Lost Roman Heroes Podcast and talking about, then ranking, the best and worst Roman dad's. This was a lot of fun. Tell us in the comments if you want to see more content like this in the future.

In today's episode we discuss an enigmatic funerary inscription, from a husband to a wife, that has been in the process recovery in bits and pieces throughout Italy. It tells an epic, harrowing tale of love, selfless acts and heroics. Ironically, we don't know the identities of the husband and wife. We're talking about just how dangerous this woman was,, and we're also talking about educated guesses from the pro's on identities.

To read the full translated text of this remarkable ancient love letter and historical document, you can explore the Laudatio funebris quae dicitur Turiae English translation provided by the Université Grenoble Alpes. For a deeper academic breakdown of the text, historical context, and the turbulent era in which it was written, refer to the Escholars Open Access Study.

In todays episode, Maddie and I are joined by Engineer Boy Nick and Jackie. We're ranking 10 insane Roman imperial flexes. We're also making a couple of big announcements about the future of the podcast. Spoiler alert: Big things are coming!

In today's episode we're talking about the Roman general Flavius Belisarius. When the emperor Justinian hatched a bold plan to reconquer the Western Roman Empire, he turned to Belisarius. Follow the remarkable journey that ended in reconquest of 2 of the West's 5 major provinces. For more on Belisarius, pick up Procopius' histories. It's a wild story.

Today's episode centers on the remarkable life of Galla Placidia. For further reading on this intriguing late Roman character, we encourage you to read Zosimus and Olympiodorus of Thebes. You will not be disappointed.

In this episode we discuss in the intertwined narrative of Theodosius the Great, Stilicho and Alaric the Goth. We'll take you through a series of choices that ended with the Gothic sack of Rome in 410 AD.

To read more about these fascinating figures, please check out the following:

Zosimus

The Poet Claudian

Procopius

Ambrose of Milan

The Codes Theodosianus

In today's episode we talk about the life of Julian the Apostate: Rome's last pagan emperor. We want to thank Dan Rodgers who provided an engaging cold open for us. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

For more information on Julian's life, we encourage you to read Books 20-25 of Res Gestae by Ammianus Marcellinus. For more of Julian's own thoughts, please check out Julian's Letters, Orations and his famous satire, aimed at the city of Antioch: Misopogon. Finally, you can take a look at Libanius' letters to Julian.

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In today's episode we're giving you a 30 minute TLDR on the life of Constantine the Great from the death of his father, Constantius Chlorus through the aftermath of his own death many years later in Constantinople. For a more detailed telling of Constantine's life, we encourage you to pick up a decent translation of Eusebius of Caesarea (Vita Constantantini) or Lactantius (De Mortibus Persecutorum). Both sources are positiviely biased, but they make up a great deal of what we know about Constantine today.

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