Life Of Caesar

By Cameron Reilly & Ray HarrisHistory

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January 18, 2019 Tiberius #16 – Edward J Watts Interview
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, and a great book about Hypatia. He’s got a great new book out about the collapse of the Roman Republic, MORTAL REPUBLIC. Get your copy today!
1 hr 15 min
December 27, 2018 Tiberius #15 – ‘Pisoff’
Abandoned by everyone, Piso walks off the stage. Plancina gets a pardon. Tiberius pulls a Trump and says Piso betrayed his trust. And then there’s this how thing about erections and electrocution that we are slightly ashamed about.
1 hr 2 min
December 20, 2018 Tiberius #14 “Do Your Farking Job!”
Agrippina and Piso arrive (separately) back in Rome. And the trial of Piso begins.
1 hr 6 min
December 14, 2018 Tiberius #13 – “Infected”
Meanwhile in Rome, people are just getting news that Germs is ill and they are furious at Tibbo and Livia. Aha! They said. Now we know why he was sent into the middle of nowhere. He has probably been poisoned like his father Drusus was, because they both wanted to restore the Republic! And then […]
1 hr 6 min
December 04, 2018 Help Jesus!
I just launched my second and last Kickstarter campaign for the Jesus film! Check it out, promote it, support it, lick it, rub yourself all over it!
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3 min
November 28, 2018 Tiberius #12 – Tears for Germanicus
Why did Germanicus go to Egypt? To get to the other side. His real motive, according to Tacitus, was tourism HOWEVER a couple of papyrus fragments discovered in Oxyrynchus in the 20th century, contains a fragment of a speech to the Alexandrians And it confirms that the visit was also an official one and makes […]
1 hr 10 min
November 23, 2018 Tiberius Caesar #11 “Father of the Legions”
To Germanicus, Piso’s appointment will have been clear proof that Tiberius still did not trust him. To some extent it followed the pattern whereby a tried and trusted man was sent to watch over a young and inexperienced prince. But Germanicus was neither so young nor by any means so inexperienced as Gaius Caesar had […]
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1 hr 3 min
November 17, 2018 Tiberius #10 – Piso Shit
Problems in the East. It had started back in 15, when the Parthians expelled their king, Vonones. Although I’ve also read 12. Vonones was the eldest son of Phraates iv and had been handed over to Augustus as a hostage in the 20s BCE along with his three brothers. After the assassination of Orodes III […]
1 hr 11 min
October 24, 2018 Tiberius #9 – Happy Fish
The other problem Tibbo had in 16 was a belated consequence of the removal of Agrippa Postumus. As soon as he heard of Augustus’ death, Clemens, one of Agrippa’s slaves, had decided to sail to Planasia and engineer Agrippa’s escape to the German armies, where he obviously expected to gain the support of Germanicus and […]
59 min
October 19, 2018 Tiberius #8 – The Libo Shuffle
Meanwhile, while Germs was off in Germany fighting Germans… Tibbo had major problems to deal with. SILK CLOTHING. CASSIUS DIO: Tiberius forbade any man to wear silk clothing and also forbade anyone to use golden vessels except for sacred ceremonies. And when some were at a loss to know whether they were also forbidden to […]
1 hr