Three films, read from the sources
6 episodes indexed · 5 hours · Voices of the Past
Periods · The kings, The Republic, The late Republic, The Pax Romana, The third-century crisis, Christian Rome, The fall of the west
The channel reads the primary sources aloud and lets the Roman do the talking. Three Roman films indexed here, and the pleasure of them is hearing a man from the first century describe what he found strange.
Where to start. How Did Rome Begin?
I feel like…
Cogitare, how it was thought and ordered
Facere, what hands made and did
how much time you have
Roman Life, Army and Culture across the centuries · 6
Two hours and seven minutes on the founding, which is longer than most books give it. The length is the point: the traditions contradict each other and here the contradictions get room.
How far Roman traders and embassies actually got, read from the accounts themselves: China, the Baltic, the edge of the Sahara.
Five eyewitness accounts of military disasters, read from the sources themselves. That is what this channel does: the text, with no narrator summarising it for you.
Five eyewitness accounts of war read straight from the sources, opening in Rome.
Twenty-three minutes of Pliny the Elder's Natural History read aloud, which is where antiquity filed its strangest reported facts, collected by a man who later died sailing towards Vesuvius.
A Roman writing about the new sect and about a man he calls Jesus son of Panthera, read as the source gives it.
