Roman Life, Army and Culture across the centuries · 6
2h 07mHow Did Rome Begin? Voices of the Past
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.
1h 44mHow Far Did Rome Explore? Voices of the Past
How far Roman traders and embassies actually got, read from the accounts themselves: China, the Baltic, the edge of the Sahara.
32m5 First Hand Accounts of the Worst Military Disasters in History Voices of the Past
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.
27m5 First Hand Accounts of War Through The Ages (From Ancient Rome to The Somme) Voices of the Past
Five eyewitness accounts of war read straight from the sources, opening in Rome.
23mRoman Historian Describes Weirdest Things In The Ancient World Voices of the Past
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.
18mRoman Complains About Weird New "Christians" and "Jesus" Son of Panthera (177 AD) True Word, Celsus Voices of the Past
A Roman writing about the new sect and about a man he calls Jesus son of Panthera, read as the source gives it.