Mike Duncan, 179 episodes, 2007 to 2012

The History of Rome

189 recordings · 179 numbered episodes · 70 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 Battle Government Life on the frontier Religion Intrigue The army Money and trade

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Three ways into a hundred and seventy-nine episodes.

11 min · This episode
In the Beginning
Eleven minutes, and everything after it follows in order.
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The War With Hannibal
Hannibal gets five straight episodes, 023a to 023e, eighty-seven minutes together, and this is where that run opens.
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24 min · This episode
Caesar Triumphant
Caesar runs from 039 to 044, and this is the episode it lands on.
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Duncan recorded this while working in the fish trade, alone, with no co-host and no sound designer, and took the story from the founding myth to the deposition of the last western emperor in 179 episodes. It won best educational podcast at the 2010 Podcast Awards and has stayed at the head of the field for the fifteen years since. Seventy hours are indexed here. The first dozen episodes sound like a man in a cupboard, and he gets audibly better around thirty. What you get for the length is continuity: by the third century you know the families, and the collapse lands because you watched it get built.

Where to start. Episode 1. Fifteen minutes, and it is built to be the beginning. 001 In the Beginning · 11 min

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

All 189 episodes, in order. Every title links straight to the episode.

001In the Beginning11m
002Youthful Indiscretions11m
003aThe Seven Kings of Rome16m
003bThe Seven Kings of Rome18m
004The Public Thing14m
005Trials and Tribunlations15m
006The Twelve Tables15m
007The Roman Washington12m
008Decades of Gloom15m
009A Trojan War13m
010Barbarians at the Gates15m
011The Morning After16m
012The First Samnite War18m
013The Latin War14m
014aA Phalanx With Joints11m
014bA Phalanx With Joints16m
015aThe Second Samnite War18m
015bThe Second Samnite War14m
016The Third Samnite War15m
017Pyrrhic Victories17m
018A History of Rome Christmas12m
019Prelude to the First Punic War16m
020aThe First Punic War22m
020bThe First Punic War22m
021Interbellum15m
022Prelude to the Second Punic War14m
023aThe War With Hannibal15m
023bThe War With Hannibal17m
023cThe War With Hannibal15m
023dThe War With Hannibal22m
023eThe War With Hannibal18m
024The Second Macedonian War16m
025The Syrian War13m
026The Third Macedonian War14m
027Mopping Up14m
028Taking Stock13m
029Tiberius Gracchus15m
030Gaius Gracchus16m
031aMarius15m
031bMarius15m
032The Social War14m
033Marius and Sulla15m
034No Greater Friend, No Worse Enemy20m
035Crassus and Pompey19m
036I Am Spartacus!19m
037Go East Young Man19m
038The Catiline Conspiracy20m
039The Young Julius Caesar Chronicles22m
040In the Consulship of Julius and Caesar23m
041aThe Gallic Wars20m
041bThe Gallic Wars25m
042Meanwhile, Back in Rome24m
043Insert Well Known Idiom Here26m
044Caesar Triumphant24m
045The End of the War23m
046Sic Semper Tyrannis21m
047Octavius-Octavian22m
048The Second Triumvirate24m
049Apollo and Dionysus26m
050The Donations of Alexandria25m
051Actium24m
052Caesar Augustus27m
053Reigning Supreme23m
054All in the Family24m
055Teutoburg Nightmares25m
056The King is Dead, Long Live the King20m
057Germanicus25m
058Partner of my Labors26m
059To the Tiber with Tiberius22m
060No Better Slave, No Worse Master22m
061What, me Claudius?21m
062Take My Wife...Please24m
063A Farewell to Claudius25m
064Smite My Womb24m
065Burn It To The Ground24m
06666623m
067What an Artist the World is Losing22m
068Three Emperors21m
069As History of Rome Wedding16m
070Galba and Otho: The History of Rome26m
071Otho and Vitellius23m
072Vitellius and Vespasian25m
073The Only Man Who Improved26m
074Friends I Have Wasted a Day22m
075The Forgotten Son26m
076Mock Triumphs22m
077What Time is It?23m
078Imperial Stop Gap23m
079The Dacian Wars22m
080Optimus Trajan21m
081The Greekling22m
082Hadrian's Walls27m
083May His Bones Be Crushed25m
084Longing For Death27m
085Antoninus the Dutiful27m
086Wealth and Class26m
087Thinking and Feeling27m
088A Day in the Life23m
089Provincial Matters43m
090The Hundredth Episode33m
091Marcus and Lucius and the Parthians24m
092The Parthian War23m
093The Marcomannic Wars24m
094Revolt and Meditations25m
095The Beginning of the End23m
096The Most Aptly Named Emperor26m
097The Fall of Hercules27m
098Purchasing Power23m
099What Evil Have I Done?24m
100Black and White and Severus All Over24m
101And All Was of Little Value24m
102The Common Enemy of Mankind22m
103The Equestrian26m
104Here Comes the Sun27m
105The Last Princeps25m
106Barbarian at the Gate28m
107The Year of the Six Emperors24m
108Gordian's Knot25m
109The New Millenium25m
110A Gothic Horror24m
111Phase One Complete27m
112Captured Alive25m
113Three Empires26m
114The Nadir of Our Fortunes28m
115Phase Two Complete25m
116Here Come the Illyrians23m
117Aurelian's Walls26m
118The Palmyrene Wars28m
119Restitutor Orbis26m
120Interregnum25m
121Phase Three Complete24m
122Jupiter and Hercules25m
123The Tertrarchy23m
124The Tetrarchs at War25m
125The Best Defence is a Good Defence25m
126All The King's Men28m
127Commanding The Economy27m
128The Great Persecution28m
129Abdication26m
130Lost in Transition28m
131The New Game in Town25m
132In This Sign26m
133The Milvian Bridge24m
134And Then There Were Two23m
135Brothers in Name Only26m
136Let This Be Our Final Battle23m
137The Christian Emperor21m
138The New Rome26m
139Wash Away Your Sins22m
140My Three Sons23m
141Blood and Water26m
142You've Earned It25m
143Julian the Pre-Apostate25m
144The Road to Constantinople25m
145Julian the Apostate27m
146The Spear of Destiny23m
147Capitulation25m
148The Cousin's Cousin25m
149The Great Conspiracy26m
150The Perils of Mismanagement24m
151Bursting a Blood Vessel24m
152The Storm Before the Storm24m
153Adrianople23m
154The Gothic War28m
155The New Bishop of Milan27m
156Jockeying for Position26m
157Only the Penitent Man Shall Pass27m
158An Imperial Suicide21m
159The Divine Winds23m
160East vs. West23m
161The Swamps of Ravenna24m
162Opening the Floodgates26m
163Theodosius's Walls25m
164The Sack of Rome24m
165Reviving the Roman Name25m
166As Long As She's Nice To Look At26m
167Exploiting the Opportunity25m
168The Rise of Aetius23m
169Huns and Vandals and Goths, Oh My24m
170Atilla Cometh23m
171The Gathering Storm16m
172Showdown25m
173The Broken Bow27m
174The Sack of Rome Part II24m
175Trying to Take It All Back23m
176The Quote Unquote Emperor25m
177The Burning Ships25m
178Not With A Bang But A Whimper28m
179The End30m

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