The History of Rome

By Mike Duncan

A weekly podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Now comple... more

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The podcast currently has 193 episodes available.

The History of Rome episodes:

February 28, 2010 043- Insert Well Known Idiom Here
In 49 BC Caesar led a single legion across the Rubicon River, sparking
a civil war that would lead to the death of the Roman Republic.
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27min
February 28, 2010 042- Meanwhile, Back in Rome
While Caesar was fighting the Gallic Wars, events in Rome and beyond
exacerbated the political tensions that would eventually lead to Civil
War.
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25min
February 28, 2010 041b- The Gallic Wars
From 57-52 BC Caesar slowly conquered Gaul. Along the way he crossed
into Germania twice and led the first Roman expedition to Britain.
Finally, the last Gallic army was forced to surrender at Alesia.
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26min
February 28, 2010 041a- The Gallic Wars
After beginning his proconsulship of Cisalpine Gaul in 58 BC Caesar was
asked to halt the advance of a migrating Celtic tribe. He managed to
turn them around, but was immediately called to face an even deadlier
threat at the banks of the Rhine River.
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21min
February 28, 2010 040- In the Consulship of Julius and Caesar
In 59 BC Julius Caesar served a controversial year in the consulship.
He pressed for land and administrative reforms the conservative Senate
opposed.
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24min
February 28, 2010 039- The Young Julius Caesar Chronicles
Julius Caesar had an eventful career on his way up the Cursus Honorum. He won the Civic Crown in Asia, was captured by pirates on his way to Rhodes, and served as Governor of Hispania Ulterior.
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23min
February 28, 2010 038- The Catiline Conspiracy
In 63 BC an embittered two-time consular candidate named Catiline
conspired to overthrow the Roman government. He was stopped by Rome's
greatest politician and orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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21min
February 28, 2010 037- Go East Young Man
After clearing the Mediterranean of pirates in 67 BC Pompey was put in
charge of the war with Mithridates. He promptly conquered his way to
Jerusalem.
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20min
February 28, 2010 036- I Am Spartacus!
From 73-71 BC a gladiator named Spartacus led a slave revolt in
southern Italy. Despite defeating the Romans on numerous occasions, the
slave army was eventually defeated by Marcus Crassus (with an
unsolicited assist from Pompey).
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20min
February 28, 2010 035- Crassus and Pompey
After Sulla's death two men emerged as the vanguard of Rome's new
political generation: Marcus Crassus who would become Rome's richest
man and Pompey the Great, who would become Rome's greatest general. In
a few years these two men would join forces with Julius Caesar to form
the first Triumvirate.
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20min

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