Dr Rhiannon Evans, Dr Caillan Davenport and Matt Smith

Emperors of Rome

270 episodes indexed · 133 hours

Periods · The kings, The Republic, The late Republic, The Pax Romana, The third-century crisis, Christian Rome, The fall of the west

Themes · Power struggle Government Battle Art, music and letters Life on the frontier Women Intrigue Religion

A collaboration between La Trobe and the Australian National University, running since 2014, and named Australia's best history podcast by Apple in 2019. Evans and Davenport bring the scholarship, Smith asks what a listener would ask, and an episode rarely passes thirty minutes. 271 of them are indexed here. It is the show to reach for when you want Elagabalus explained on a walk.

Where to start. The Augustus episodes, then follow the numbering.

I feel like…

ThinkingAny

Cogitare, how it was thought and ordered

FeelingAny

Sentire, what was lived and endured

DoingAny

Facere, what hands made and did

PeriodAny

when it happens

LengthAny

how much time you have

All 270 episodes, in order. 196 of them link straight to the episode.

Episode I - The Early Years of Caesar12m
Episode II - Caesar the Politician15m
Episode III - Caesar and Gaul15m
Episode IV - Caesar's Triumph15m
Episode V - Caesar and Civil War13m
Episode VI - The Death of Caesar13m
Episode VII - The Legacy of Caesar14m
Interlude - What is an Emperor?7m
Episode VIII - The Augustan Revolution16m
Episode IX - Augustan Rome16m
Interlude - Pax Romana6m
Episode X - The Augustan Succession11m
Episode XI - Tiberius the Reluctant Emperor17m
Episode XII - Tiberius the Gloomiest of Men17m
Episode XIII - The Rule of Caligula15m
Episode XIV - The Madness of Caligula12m
Episode XV - The Assassination of Caligula13m
Interlude - Reading List I7m
Episode XVI - Claudius the Unlikely Emperor13m
Episode XVII - Claudius Conquers Britannia11m
Episode XVIII - The Life of Claudius18m
Episode XIX - Nero the Youngest Emperor14m
Episode XX - Agrippina the Younger23m
Interlude - Q and A18m
Episode XXI - The Great Fire of Rome in 64CE14m
Episode XXII - What a Artist Dies in Nero20m
Episode XXIII - Romans vs Christians21m
Episode XXIV - Cicero20m
Episode XXV - Livia23m
Episode XXVI - Seneca the Younger23m
Episode XXVII - Ovid21m
Interlude - Reading List II9m
Episode XXVIII - Galba21m
Episode XXIX - Otho19m
Episode XXX - Vitellius20m
Episode XXXI - Enter Vespasian22m
Episode XXXII - Vespasian, as Prophesised21m
Episode XXXIII - Emperor Vespasian, Becoming a God27m
Episode XXXIV - Titus and the Siege of Jerusalem20m
Episode XXXV - A Pleasant Surprise From the Emperor Titus25m
Episode XXXVI - The Debut of Domitian20m
Episode XXXVII - Domitian Dominates30m
Episode XXXVIII - Domitian Must Die26m
Episode XXXIX - Asterix and the Missing Scroll16m
Episode XL - What is an Emperor? (redux)29m
Episode XLI - Nerva21m
Episode XLII - A Lesson in Latin26m
Interlude - Latin Pronunciation9m
Episode XLIII - Virgil30m
Episode XLIV - Roman Sexuality22m
Interlude - Q and A II21m
Interlude - Valerius Flaccus11m
Episode XLV - In Trajan we Trust16m
Episode XLVI - Trajan vs Dacia22m
Episode XLVII - Pliny the Younger39m
Episode XLVIII - Trajan: Optimus Princeps32m
Episode XLIX - Suetonius25m
Episode L - Historia Augusta23m
Episode LI - Frontinus30m
Episode LII - Hadrian the Little Greek26m
Episode LIII - Rome Welcomes Hadrian17m
Episode LIV - There and Back Again (An Emperor's Tale)28m
Episode LV - What Hadrian Loves Best26m
Episode LVI - May His Bones Rot26m
Interlude - The Singing Colossus of Memnon9m
Episode LVII - Little Soul, Little Wanderer, Little Charmer20m
Episode LVIII - Tacitus24m
Episode LIX - Martial33m
Episode LX - Cleopatra (Live at the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne)1h 02m
Episode LXI - Gladiator (2000)35m
Interlude - The Bronze Head of Augustus13m
Episode LXII - Juvenal30m
Episode LXIII - Women Poets24m
Episode LXIV - Q and A III34m
Episode LXV - Antoninus Pius34m
Episode LXVI - Fronto25m
Episode LXVII - Heir and a Spare25m
Episode LXVIII - Never Underestimate the Parthians25m
Episode LXIX - Galen and the Antonine Plague23m
Episode LXX - The Marcomannic Wars28m
Episode LXXI - Meditations20m
Episode LXXII - On Behalf of the State34m
Episode LXXIII - From a Kingdom of Gold23m
Episode LXXIV - Iron and Rust24m
Episode LXXV - Flying Too Close to the Sun22m
Episode LXXVI - It's Good to be the King25m
Episode LXXVII - Such was the End of Commodus25m
Episode LXXVIII - Borders of the Roman Empire21m
Episode LXXIX - Epicureanism27m
Episode LXXX - Dio Cassius35m
Episode LXXXI - Livy26m
Episode LXXXII - Pertinax30m
Episode LXXXIII – Didius Julianus24m
Episode LXXXIV – The African Emperor25m
Episode LXXXV - Black and White33m
Episode LXXXVI – Ascent to Greatness, However Steep and Dangerous28m
Episode LXXXVII – Severan Stories I22m
Episode LXXXVIII – Severan Stories II19m
Episode LXXXIX - A Man the World Could Not Hold33m
Episode XC - Herodes Atticus27m
Episode XCI - The Roman Constitution37m
Episode XCII - The Beginning of the End of the Republic20m
Episode XCIII - Powerful Personalities31m
Episode XCIV - A Republic Worth Fighting For25m
Episode XCV - The First Triumvirate28m
Episode XCVI - Dictator of Rome27m
Episode XCVII - Sallust34m
Episode XCVIII - Caesar's Gallic War34m
Episode XCIX - Q and A IV42m
Episode C - The Death of Caesar (Live in Melbourne)42m
Episode CI - The Last Will and Testament of Caesar29m
Episode CII - Clodia31m
Episode CIII - Old Age in the Roman World30m
Episode CIV - Slavery39m
Episode CV - Spartacus the Gladiator24m
Episode CVI - The Third Servile War20m
Episode CVII - The Legacy of Spartacus25m
Episode CVIII - A Lesson in Latin II31m
Episode CIX - Saturnalia26m
Episode CX - Anthology of Interest29m
Episode CXI - The Equestrian Order33m
Episode CXII - The Book of Love37m
Episode CXIII - Fratricidal Discord (Caracalla I)35m
Episode CXIV - Mutilating Rome (Caracalla II)24m
Episode CXV - Ausonian Beast (Caracalla III)29m
Episode CXVI - Red Wedding (Caracalla IV)22m
Episode CXVII – Disgraced Human Nature (Caracalla V)25m
Episode CXVIII - The Roman Calendar29m
Episode CXIX - Fragments of Early Roman Literature28m
Episode CXX - Adultery31m
Episode CXXI - Assassination36m
Episode CXXII - Purple by Merit38m
Episode CXXIII - Here Comes the Sun (Elagabalus I)29m
Episode CXXIV – The Lowest Depths of Foulness (Elagabalus II)31m
Episode CXXV - Call Me Not a Lord, for I Am a Lady (Elagabalus III)35m
Episode CXXVI - Vestal Virgins39m
Episode CXXVII - Augustus: The Making of an Emperor (Live in Melbourne)59m
Episode CXXVIII - Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (Gracchi I)32m
Episode CXXIX - Tiberius Gracchus and the Landless Masses (Gracchi II)28m
Episode CXXX - Unpopular Reforms (Gracchi III)36m
Episode CXXXI - Champions of the People (Gracchi IV)49m
Episode CXXXII - Q and A V27m
Episode CXXXIII - Anthology of Interest II34m
Episode CXXXIV - Roman Health and Medicine37m
Episode CXXXV - Lupercalia19m
Episode CXXXVI - Spartacus (1960)44m
Episode CXXXVII - Mother Knows Best (Severus Alexander I)38m
Episode CXXXVIII - Rise of the Sasanian Empire (Severus Alexander II)22m
Episode CXXXIX - A Fish in a Net (Severus Alexander III)24m
Episode CXL - A Ridiculous Waste of Time (Severus Alexander IV)25m
Episode CXLI - Translating Suetonius16m
Episode CXLII - Deification32m
Episode CXLIII - Damnatio Memoriae42m
Episode CXLIV - Ulpian36m
Episode CXLV - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest34m
Episode CXLVI - The Sun is Getting Real Low (Maximinus)43m
Episode CXLVII - The Vagaries of Chance26m
Episode CXLVIII - The Always Unpredictable Outcome of War33m
Episode CXLIX - Herodian32m
Episode CL - Q and A VI (Live)46m
Episode CLI - Ovid's Fasti26m
Episode CLII - The Roman Empress29m
Episode CLIII - Livia (with Sian Phillips)44m
Episode CLIV – Messalina57m
Episode CLV – Agrippina, Wife of Claudius46m
Episode CLVI – Agrippina, Mother of Nero27m
Episode CLVII – Domitia33m
Episode CLVIII – Plotina22m
Episode CLIX - Sabina29m
Episode CLX - Faustina40m
Episode CLXI - Syrian Matriarchy35m
Episode CLXII - Anthology of Interest III1h 03m
Episode CLXIII - Foundations of Rome32m
Episode CLXIV - Gordian III32m
Episode CLXV - Phillip39m
Episode CLXVI - The Edict of Sacrifice (Decius I)36m
Episode CLXVII - The Gothic Invasion (Decius II)28m
Episode CLXVIII - The Battle of Abritus (Decius III)24m
Episode CLXIX - Gallus31m
Episode CLXX - Roman Luxury and Wealth30m
Episode CLXXI - Roman Magic23m
Episode CLXXII - Vercingetorix32m
Episode CLXXIII - Arminius37m
Episode CLXXIV - Boudicca1h 12m
Episode CLXXV - The Murder of Pedanius Secundus48m
Episode CLXXVI – The Apology of Apuleius41m
Episode CLXXVII - Witches in the Roman World30m
Episode CLXXVIII - Witches in Roman Literature43m
Episode CLXXIX - Q and A VII46m
Episode CLXXX - The Fort28m
Episode CLXXXI - Crucifixion44m
Episode CLXXXII - The Empty Throne28m
Episode CLXXXIII - Philippics42m
Episode CLXXXIV - The Siege of Mutina48m
Episode CLXXXV - The Second Triumvirate44m
Episode CLXXXVI - Proscriptions43m
Episode CLXXXVII - The Battle of Philippi48m
Episode CLXXXVIII - How to Win a Consular Election48m
Episode CLXXXIX - Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (Live in Canberra)58m
Episode CXC - I, Augustus (with Brian Blessed)28m
Episode CXCI - Empire Under Siege (Valerian)46m
Episode CXCII - The Persecution of Christians (Valerian II)29m
Episode CXCIII - The Humiliation of Caesar (Valerian III)23m
Episode CXCIV - Sea Monsters in Roman Mythology31m
Episode CXCV - Q and A VIII41m
Episode CXCVI - Fulvia39m
Episode CXCVII - The Perusine War35m
Episode CXCVIII - Octavia48m
Episode CXCIX - Sextus Pompeius47m
Episode CC - Cleopatra and Antony (Live in Melbourne)1h 03m
Episode CCI - Actium35m
Episode CCII - The Death of Cleopatra and Antony54m
Episode CCIII - Augustan Egypt33m
Episode CCIV - Octavian's Illyrian War32m
Episode CCV - Cleopatra Selene35m
Episode CCVI - Rome Crumbles33m
Episode CCVII - The Gallic Empire27m
Episode CCVIII - Odaenathus, King of Kings30m
Episode CCIX - A Diminished Rome24m
Episode CCX - A Lesson in Latin III30m
Episode CCXI - Claudius Gothicus31m
Episode CCXII - Aurelian, the Restorer of the World25m
Episode CCXIII - Zenobia34m
Episode CCXIV - Aurelian, Restorer of the Age22m
Episode CCXV - The Unconquered Sun22m
Episode CCXVI - A Roman Haunting in Three Parts27m
Episode CCXVII - Angeronalia22m
Episode CCXVIII - Martial on the Emperors35m
Episode CCXIX - Hispala Faecena and the Bacchanalia Conspiracy28m
Episode CCXX - A Disordered Mind (The Catiline Conspiracy I)42m
Episode CCXXI - An Entire Farrago (The Catiline Conspiracy II)32m
Episode CCXXII - A Stolen Election (The Catiline Conspiracy III)34m
Episode CCXXIII - The Championship of the Oppressed (The Catiline Conspiracy IV)36m
Episode CCXXIV - Indomitable Spirit (The Catiline Conspiracy V)35m
Episode CCXXV - The Exile of Cicero (The Catiline Conspiracy VI)36m
Episode CCXXVI - The Reputation of Catiline (The Catiline Conspiracy VII)39m
Episode CCXXVII - The Catiline Comparison (The Catiline Conspiracy VIII)46m
Episode CCXXVIII - Caesar vs Vercingetorix (Live in Albury)35m
Episode CCXXIX - Clodius Pulcher and the Bona Dea27m
Episode CCXXX - Emperor Tacitus27m
Episode CCXXXI - Probus30m
Episode CCXXXII - Carus and Sons25m
Episode CCXXXIII - The Rise of Diocles (Diocletian I)31m
Episode CCXXXIV - Dyarchy Plus One (Diocletian II)30m
Episode CCXXXV - Faunalia Rustica18m
Episode CCXXXVI - The Madness of Commodus (Live in Melbourne)27m
Roman Dining25m
Imperial Dining (with Mary Beard)40m
Excavating Pompeii39m
Crassus and the Social Wars30m
Crassus vs Spartacus33m
Crassus and the Triumvirate35m
Glory and Gold33m
The House That Crassus and Pompey Built29m
Ludi Apollinares22m
False Nero25m
Laudatio Turiae41m
Porcia40m
Paetus, It Does Not Hurt44m
Viriathus35m
Anthology of Interest IV52m
Tetrarchy39m
Reclaiming Britannia27m
How the Tetrarchy Won the East34m
The Tetrarchic Persecution of Christians42m
Augusti Retirement31m
Germania34m
Octavian Before Octavian42m
The Rise of Octavian33m
The Young Warlord49m

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