Life Of Caesar

Life Of Caesar

By Cameron Reilly & Ray HarrisHistory
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Life Of Caesar episodes

  • VES 23 — The God in the Dog Mask (Free Preview)
    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 triumph, for reasons both boring and genuinely weird. We also cover Decius Mundus, a man so obsessed with a married woman that he bribed priests to let him dress up as Anubis and have sex with her.... which Josephus drops right after his suspiciously glowing account of Jesus, purely by coincidence. And we take a hard look at whether Nero actually blamed the Christians for the Great Fire of Rome, or whether Tacitus just made that up fifty years later.

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    17 min
  • VES 23 — The God in the Dog Mask
    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 triumph, for reasons both boring and genuinely weird. We also cover Decius Mundus, a man so obsessed with a married woman that he bribed priests to let him dress up as Anubis and have sex with her.... which Josephus drops right after his suspiciously glowing account of Jesus, purely by coincidence. And we take a hard look at whether Nero actually blamed the Christians for the Great Fire of Rome, or whether Tacitus just made that up fifty years later.

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    55 min
  • VES 22 — Titus' Victory Tour
    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 Jewish captives in tow.... who he then has killed, in as many creative ways as possible, as entertainment. Meanwhile he's sleeping with Berenice, Jewish princess and co-ruler of the very territory he just levelled, which is complicated. And somewhere in Syria, Josephus spots a river that only flows on the Sabbath, spawning a legend that runs for 2,000 years.

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    1 hr 11 min
  • VES 22 — Titus' Victory Tour (Free Preview)
    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 Jewish captives in tow.... who he then has killed, in as many creative ways as possible, as entertainment. Meanwhile he's sleeping with Berenice, Jewish princess and co-ruler of the very territory he just levelled, which is complicated. And somewhere in Syria, Josephus spots a river that only flows on the Sabbath, spawning a legend that runs for 2,000 years.

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    18 min
  • VES 21 — **The Last Man Standing** (Free Preview)
    Picking up where we left off, Vespasian is finally making his way back to Rome and apparently every city he passes through absolutely loses its mind with joy — which Josephus reports with the completely unbiased objectivity you'd expect from a man who literally changed his name to Flavian. Meanwhile Domitian, aged 19, is talking a big game about personally crushing the Batavian revolt until Mucianus very firmly tells him to go back to his room. The Senate is relieved, the crowds pour out of Rome to greet Vespasian on the road, and Josephus assures us the city immediately grew into a state of great prosperity. Roman politics at its finest.

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    21 min
  • VES 21 — **The Last Man Standing**
    Picking up where we left off, Vespasian is finally making his way back to Rome and apparently every city he passes through absolutely loses its mind with joy — which Josephus reports with the completely unbiased objectivity you'd expect from a man who literally changed his name to Flavian. Meanwhile Domitian, aged 19, is talking a big game about personally crushing the Batavian revolt until Mucianus very firmly tells him to go back to his room. The Senate is relieved, the crowds pour out of Rome to greet Vespasian on the road, and Josephus assures us the city immediately grew into a state of great prosperity. Roman politics at its finest.

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    35 min
  • VES 20 — CROWNS FROM THE TEMPLE (Free Preview)
    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 legions for their next postings around the empire. We dig into what happened to the early Christian community in Jerusalem — spoiler: nobody really knows, and that's the fascinating part. Then Cam and Ray pause to take in the sheer scale of what just happened: a 2,200-year-old city, wiped off the face of the earth.

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    18 min
  • VES 20 — CROWNS FROM THE TEMPLE
    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 legions for their next postings around the empire. We dig into what happened to the early Christian community in Jerusalem — spoiler: nobody really knows, and that's the fascinating part. Then Cam and Ray pause to take in the sheer scale of what just happened: a 2,200-year-old city, wiped off the face of the earth.

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    34 min
  • VES 19 — YHWH v JOVE (Free Preview)

    On this episode, we wrap up the fall of Jerusalem in September 70 CE — Titus strolls into the ruins, declares Yahweh helped him destroy Yahweh's own temple, and the boys go deep on the genuinely wild linguistic coincidence that the Roman sky-god Jove and the Hebrew God share the same name. Then it's grim accounting time: survivors get sorted into gladiators, mine slaves, and beast-fodder, Josephus rescues some mates, and rebel leader Simon Bar-Gioras emerges from a tunnel dressed in a white robe trying to pass himself off as a ghost.

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    35 min
  • VES 19 — YHWH v JOVE

    On this episode, we wrap up the fall of Jerusalem in September 70 CE — Titus strolls into the ruins, declares Yahweh helped him destroy Yahweh's own temple, and the boys go deep on the genuinely wild linguistic coincidence that the Roman sky-god Jove and the Hebrew God share the same name. Then it's grim accounting time: survivors get sorted into gladiators, mine slaves, and beast-fodder, Josephus rescues some mates, and rebel leader Simon Bar-Gioras emerges from a tunnel dressed in a white robe trying to pass himself off as a ghost.

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    1 hr 12 min

About Life Of Caesar

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A long-form podcast about the lives of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.