Dan Snow on history's defining moments; only the Roman episodes are indexed
38 episodes indexed · 25 hours
Presented by Dan Snow
Periods · The kings, The Republic, The late Republic, The Pax Romana, The third-century crisis, Christian Rome, The fall of the west
Themes · Government Battle Power struggle Life on the frontier
Historian Dan Snow travels the world for the stories behind history's defining moments, from the Colosseum in Rome to the Tomb of Tutankhamun; only the Roman episodes are here, 38 of 1548, 9 eras, 26 hours.
Where to start. The earliest indexed episode is 'Hannibal: Crossing the Alps' (2020); 38 episodes of this show are in the section.
I feel like…
Cogitare, how it was thought and ordered
Sentire, what was lived and endured
Facere, what hands made and did
when it happens
how much time you have
Before Rome c. 900 – 509 BC · 1
Carthage and the Punic Wars 814 – 146 BC · 3
Julius Caesar 100 – 42 BC · 6
Antony, Cleopatra and Augustus 44 BC – AD 14 · 1
The Julio-Claudians AD 14 – 68 · 1
The High Empire AD 98 – 192 · 1
Severans and the Third-Century Crisis AD 193 – 284 · 1
The Fall of the West AD 395 – 565 · 2
Roman Life, Army and Culture across the centuries · 22
With Mary Beard