Patrick Wyman, 33 episodes, finished
The Fall of Rome Podcast
32 recordings · 31 numbered episodes · 23 hours
Presented by Patrick Wyman
Wyman has a doctorate in exactly this period and the series is the argument from it: the western empire came apart as a political decentralisation, and the economic and archaeological evidence carries the argument, without reaching for decadence. 33 episodes and 23 hours, complete since 2018, which makes it the rare show you can finish. Listen to it before you argue with anyone about why Rome fell.
Where to start. Episode 1; the run is short enough to take in order. 1 Introduction · 36 min
I feel like…
ThinkingAny
Cogitare, how it was thought and ordered
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Sentire, what was lived and endured
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Facere, what hands made and did
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when it happens
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how much time you have
All 32 episodes, in order. Every title links straight to the episode.
- 1Introduction36m
- 2The Barbarian World39m
- 3The Goths and the Beginning of Rome's End41m
- 4The Gothic Sack of Rome46m
- 5Just How Screwed Up Was the Later Roman Empire?46m
- 6The Catastrophic Fall Of Roman Britain48m
- 7The Three Transformations Of Roman Gaul55m
- Special Episode: The End Of The Gladiators19m
- 8The Vandals and the Fall of Roman Africa49m
- 9Attila and the Empire of the Huns55m
- 10The Late Roman Army, Barbarians, and the Frontier55m
- 11The Roman Economy Before the Fall42m
- 12The Fall of the Roman Economy43m
- 13The Unraveling of the Roman World46m
- 14The Calamitous Fifth Century - A Narrative History43m
- 15The Death of the Roman Political System44m
- 16The Kingdom of the Visigoths43m
- 17Ostrogothic Kingdom or the Western Empire Reborn?47m
- 18The Warlords of Northern Gaul and the Rise of the Franks48m
- 19Why Didn't Rome Rise Again? An Interview with Professor Walter Scheidel33m
- 20The Anglo-Saxon Migration, the North Sea World, and the Birth of England51m
- 21Rome's Legacy and the Barbarian Kingdoms42m
- 22The Brilliance of Saint Augustine. An Interview with Elizabeth Bruenig42m
- 23Could the Roman Empire Have Survived?37m
- 24Tides of History: The Roman City38m
- 25Tides of History: The Decline and Fall of the Roman City33m
- 26Tides of History: How Latin Became the Romance Languages50m
- 27Tides of History: Why Didn't The Eastern Empire Fall?40m
- 28Tides of History: How the Eastern Roman Empire Survived Attila the Hun and the Disastrous Fifth Century50m
- 29Tides of History: Justinian the Great and the Reconquest of the Western Empire46m
- 30Tides of History: Natural Disasters and the End of the Roman Empire43m
- 31Interview: Historian Kyle Harper on Disease, Climate and the Fall of the Roman Empire38m