Death and burial

Beard's three parts on ordinary Romans, read off their tombstones. The corrective to every documentary that is only about emperors.

Ninety-seven minutes inside the first new dig at Pompeii in seventy years, filmed with the archaeologists while the finds come out of the ash. The DNA work on the victims is what lifts it past a tour of the ruins.

Part of Life of Caesar

The revolt of the Eburones and the loss of fifteen cohorts, after which Caesar swore not to shave until it was avenged. An hour and a half on the winter Gaul nearly turned.

Part of Life of Caesar

Eighty-four minutes on March 37, when Tiberius was seventy-seven and had been emperor for twenty-two years. The title refers to the report that he woke up after being declared dead, and the episode weighs whether that happened.

Part of Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Titus scored on the show's fixed categories, which is awkward for an emperor who reigned twenty-six months and got Vesuvius, a fire and a plague.

Part of The Ancients

With Jessica Venner

The eruption hour by hour, and the argument about the date: the traditional 24 August has been under attack since a charcoal inscription turned up in 2018 pointing at October.

Part of The History of Byzantium

Robin Pierson treats the death of the last emperor as an open case: what the sources claim, where they cannot have been standing, and what became of the body. Sixty-six minutes on 29 May 1453.

Part of The Partial Historians

With Victoria Austen

Victoria Austen on the tomb Augustus built for himself at thirty-five, decades before he needed it, and on what a garden-topped mound was saying to Romans. An hour on architecture as a claim.

Part of Our Fake History

Hadrian has been celebrated as one of Rome's five good emperors, but his reputation is complicated by the mysterious death of his teenage lover, Antinous.

Part of The Ancients

With Kyle Harper

Kyle Harper on the volcanic dust veil of the 530s followed by bubonic plague in 541, and on the argument that climate and disease set the limits everything else happened inside. Sixty-four minutes.

Part of The Partial Historians

The exile, the march on Rome with Volscian troops, and the mother who stopped him. Sixty-one minutes on a story Shakespeare found already shaped.

One hour, real people reconstructed from the bodies in the ash, and a volcanic timeline you can set your watch by. The scene everyone remembers is the pyroclastic surge, and it earns it.

Part of The Ancients

With Kyle Harper

Kyle Harper on disease as a cause and not a backdrop: the Antonine plague, the Cyprianic, and the bubonic outbreak of 541. Sixty minutes, third of the Fall of Rome run.

Part of The Partial Historians

Fifty-six minutes on the Allia and the sack of 390, the defeat Romans dated their calendar around for centuries.

Part of Emperors of Rome

Fifty-four minutes on the eleven months in Alexandria after the defeat, and two suicides staged with care. The asp arrives late in the tradition and may be entirely literary.

Part of The Ancients

Fifty-one minutes on a find from the Great Pompeii Project, in a suburban villa some seven hundred metres from the walls. Excavation there is still producing new bodies.

Part of The Partial Historians

Forty-nine minutes back at Pompeii and Herculaneum, with what the excavations have turned up since the previous episode on them.

The eruption of 79 is the famous one; this is about the one eighteen centuries before it, which buried a Bronze Age settlement on the same mountain. Forty-seven minutes, and it turns Vesuvius from a single catastrophe into a habit.

Part of The Rest Is History

Forty-six minutes on the eruption of AD 79, a column of gas and ash some twenty-one miles high and the surges that came down the mountain after it collapsed.

Part of The Ancients

With Carolina Lima

Carolina Lima on the cremated remains from Roman Colchester and what isotopes and bone can say about where those people had come from. Forty-four minutes.

Part of Emperors of Rome

Forty-four minutes on Arria, who stabbed herself first and handed the dagger to her husband with that line. Roman suicide as a public argument.

Part of Emperors of Rome

With Gillian Shepherd

Forty-four minutes on a punishment reserved for slaves and rebels, designed to take days and be watched.

Part of Emperors of Rome

With Zachary Herz

Forty-three minutes on the lists posted in the forum with a price on each name, under Sulla and again under the triumvirs.

Part of Emperors of Rome

Forty-one minutes on the longest private inscription from Rome: a husband's funeral speech for a wife who hid him during the proscriptions.

Part of The History of Byzantium

Forty-one minutes on the plague of 541, which killed perhaps a third of the empire and ended the reconquest without a battle.

Part of The Ancients

Forty minutes on the eruption of AD 79 itself, hour by hour, in the series the show built around the town. Carries a warning for the descriptions of how people died.

Part of The Ancients

With Ewan Coopey

Thirty-nine minutes with Ewan Coopey on what auxiliaries and legionaries chose to put on their own gravestones, from northern Britain to the Near East. Rank, years served, and who paid for the stone.

Part of The Ancients

With Nick Summerton

Nick Summerton on the epidemic that arrived with the armies returning from the east in the 160s: the flight from cities, the advice on staying well, and what Galen recorded. Thirty-two minutes.

Part of The Ancient World

Thirty-two minutes on the death of Tiberius and Caligula's first year, including the summons and execution of Ptolemy of Mauretania for no reason anyone recorded.

Part of Historia Civilis

The Ides drawn minute by minute, with who stood where in the theatre of Pompey. Sixty conspirators is a logistical problem and this shows it as one.

Part of The Partial Historians

Thirty-one minutes on a plague that killed consuls and augurs alike, and on what an ancient city could and could not do about disease.

Part of The Ancient World

Thirty minutes on Aurelian crushing the second Palmyrene revolt, and on the sources that cannot agree whether Zenobia died on the road, in the triumph or in a villa at Tivoli.

Part of The Partial Historians

Twenty-eight minutes previewing their Masada series: a siege ramp, a mass suicide, and one source written by a man who changed sides.

Part of The History of Byzantium

Twenty-eight minutes on the end of the Macedonian line, with the throne passing through elderly empresses to whoever they married.

Part of The History of Byzantium

The legends that gathered around Constantine XI, including the one where an angel carries him under the Golden Gate to wait. Twenty-seven minutes on how a defeat turns into a prophecy.

Part of The History of Rome

Attila's death and the collapse of the Hunnic confederation within a year. Twenty-seven minutes on an empire that was one man.

Part of Emperors of Rome

Twenty-seven minutes on Roman ghost stories, including Pliny's haunted house in Athens and the bones found under the floor.

Part of The History of Rome

Twenty-seven minutes on Nerva's short reign, in which an elderly senator was pushed into adopting a general to stay alive.

Part of Being Roman with Mary Beard

Allia Potestas, remembered on her tombstone by a lover who shared her with a friend and thought the arrangement worth carving in stone. Twenty-seven minutes with Mary Beard on a single inscription.

Part of Emperors of Rome

With Caillan Davenport

Twenty-five minutes on the massacre at Alexandria and the murder on the road to Carrhae that ended him.

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast

Twenty-five minutes of Roman ghost stories, most of them from Pliny and Suetonius, who reported them straight.

Part of The Ancients

With Jodi Magness

Jodi Magness, who co-directed the 1995 excavations, on the 967 who supposedly died on the rock in AD 73 and on how much of Josephus the digging actually supports. Twenty-three minutes.

Part of The History of Rome

Twenty-two minutes on deathbed baptism, which made sense in a theology where baptism wiped the slate and an emperor had a great deal to wipe.

Part of Historia Civilis

Antony's speech and the riot it started, which decided more than the murder did.

Part of The History of Rome

Twenty-one minutes on Valens at Adrianople, where two thirds of an eastern field army died in an afternoon.

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

Baptised on his deathbed, buried among twelve apostolic tombs, and succeeded by three sons who divided everything. Twenty-one minutes on an ending arranged in advance and still gone wrong.

Part of Echoes of Empires

Twenty-one minutes on the plague that struck in 541 and killed on the scale of the Black Death. Everything Justinian planned after this is shaped by it.

Part of Emperors of Rome

Twenty minutes on Hadrian's deathbed poem to his own soul, five lines that have been translated for eighteen centuries.

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

Seventeen minutes on an emperor dying at York with advice for his sons that neither of them took.

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

Fourteen minutes on an emperor whose short reign was almost entirely disaster relief.

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

Fourteen minutes on the last years: illness, a failed suicide attempt, and a succession arranged two deep so it would hold. It held for eighty years.

Part of Ancient Rome Live

Where executions actually happened: the Carcer, the Tarpeian Rock, and what the locations meant to the crowd.

Part of toldinstone

What survives of Roman Alexandria, which is less than you would expect and stranger.

Part of toldinstone

Nine minutes at Xanthos in Lycia, where the dead were put in pillar tombs raised above the living. The reliefs from the Harpy Tomb are in London; the pillars are still standing.

Part of toldinstone

Seven minutes at Sidyma in the Lycian hills, where the tombs outlasted the town and a village was later built in among them.

Part of toldinstone

Seven minutes at the cenotaph raised in Lycia for Gaius Caesar, the grandson Augustus meant to succeed him, who died there in AD 4 at twenty-three. The tomb is empty; the succession went to Tiberius.

Part of Lost Roman Heroes · Matteo and Matthew Storm, 101 episodes

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast · Vince and Cassie, 137 numbered episodes

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast · Vince and Cassie, 137 numbered episodes

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast · Vince and Cassie, 137 numbered episodes

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast · Vince and Cassie, 137 numbered episodes

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast · Vince and Cassie, 137 numbered episodes

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast · Vince and Cassie, 137 numbered episodes

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast · Vince and Cassie, 137 numbered episodes

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast · Vince and Cassie, 137 numbered episodes

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast · Vince and Cassie, 137 numbered episodes

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast · Vince and Cassie, 137 numbered episodes