Matt Smith
7 episodes indexed · 3 hours
Presented by Matt Smith
Periods · The kings, The Republic, The late Republic, The Pax Romana, The third-century crisis, Christian Rome, The fall of the west
Themes · Engineering Archaeology
I feel like…
Cogitare, how it was thought and ordered
Facere, what hands made and did
when it happens
The Late Republic 133 – 44 BC · 1
Severans and the Third-Century Crisis AD 193 – 284 · 1
With Niccolò Mugnai
Thirty-one minutes on the birthplace of Septimius Severus on the Libyan coast, which he rebuilt as emperor into something meant to rival Rome. A harbour city preserved by sand.
Dominate and Christian Rome AD 284 – 395 · 1
With Caillan Davenport
Twenty-five minutes on the largest baths Rome ever built, put up in the early fourth century and now holding a church, a museum and a railway station.
Roman Life, Army and Culture across the centuries · 4
With Peter Guest
Thirty minutes recorded on the site itself: Caerleon in south Wales, headquarters of the Second Legion and the furthest west this show has been. The amphitheatre and the barracks are still there.
