This week's guest is the bestselling historian Tom Holland and he talks Ancient Rome - from Nero to Hadrian with our editor. Their discussion goes into Sex and Gender, Hadrian's Wall, Greeks and Rome and then a few light-hearted questions as well as Tom's view of history today.

Tom's latest book is Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age.

Subscribe for plenty more great history coming up on the pod including Part 2 of the Parthenon Marbles, the Battle of Poitiers, the Film Club returns with Spielberg's Munich and much much more.

Tom Holland Links

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic

Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

Tom on X

Ollie Links

Aspects of History home - Aspects of History

Ollie on X

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