In which we examine all the different roles a fourth century monk could play: saint, wonder worker, spiritual director, superhero, and...skincare guru?

In which a new generation takes its place on world history...and Ben's enthusiasm for certain sci-fi fandoms prompts our first-ever double sponsorship!

It wouldn't be the Road to Nicea without a few U-turns. It's time to meet one of the biggest. Tune in to learn about Julian the Apostate: emperor, philosopher, idealist, nerd.

It's time for a little diversion as we meet the man who was there for all of Nicea's history - and we mean ALL of it.

In which the anti-Nicene forces seem to have the upper hand...and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of ancient history is revealed.

For legal purposes, this episode is a joke.

As the empire changes, the theologies of the Church change too. Just what were mid-fourth-century theologians making of Nicea's odd "homoousios" language?

In which we take a look at another member of the Constantinian court: Lactantius, tutor to Crispus and writer of treatises. What does he have to tell us about the Great Persecution and its aftermath?

Persecutor, lucky son, mild-mannered emperor, forgotten bureaucrat. He has so many descriptors. But who really is Constantius II?

Well yes, we've had one creed, but what about a second creed? And a third, and a fourth, and...