The History of Rome

    A weekly podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Now complete!

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  • The Storm Before The Storm: Chapter 1- The Beasts of Italy

  • Revolutions Launch

  • Update- One Year Later

  • 179- The End

  • 178- Not With A Bang But A Whimper

  • 177- The Burning Ships

  • 176- The Quote Unquote Emperor

  • 175- Trying to Take It All Back

  • 174- The Sack of Rome Part II

  • 173- The Broken Bow

  • 172- Showdown

  • 171- The Gathering Storm

  • 170- Atilla Cometh

  • 169- Huns and Vandals and Goths, Oh My

  • 168- The Rise of Aetius

  • 167- Exploiting the Opportunity

  • 166- As Long As She's Nice To Look At

  • 165- Reviving the Roman Name

  • 164- The Sack of Rome

  • 163- Theodosius's Walls

  • 162- Opening the Floodgates

  • 161- The Swamps of Ravenna

  • 160- East vs. West

  • 159- The Divine Winds

  • 158- An Imperial Suicide

  • 157- Only the Penitent Man Shall Pass

  • 156- Jockeying for Position

  • 155- The New Bishop of Milan

  • 154- The Gothic War

  • 153- Adrianople

  • 152- The Storm Before the Storm

  • 151- Bursting a Blood Vessel

  • 150- The Perils of Mismanagement

  • 149- The Great Conspiracy

  • 148- The Cousin's Cousin

  • 147- Capitulation

  • 146- The Spear of Destiny

  • 145- Julian the Apostate

  • 144- The Road to Constantinople

  • 143- Julian the Pre-Apostate

  • 142- You've Earned It

  • 141- Blood and Water

  • 140- My Three Sons

  • 139- Wash Away Your Sins

  • 138- The New Rome

  • 137- The Christian Emperor

  • 136- Let This Be Our Final Battle

  • 135- Brothers in Name Only

  • 134- And Then There Were Two

  • 133- The Milvian Bridge

  • 132- In This Sign

  • 131- The New Game in Town

  • 130- Lost in Transition

  • 129- Abdication

  • 128- The Great Persecution

  • 127- Commanding The Economy

  • 126- All The King's Men

  • 125- The Best Defence is a Good Defence

  • 124- The Tetrarchs at War

  • 123- The Tertrarchy

  • 122- Jupiter and Hercules

  • 121- Phase Three Complete

  • 120- Interregnum

  • 119- Restitutor Orbis

  • 118- The Palmyrene Wars

  • 117- Aurelian's Walls

  • 116- Here Come the Illyrians

  • 115- Phase Two Complete

  • 114- The Nadir of Our Fortunes

  • 113- Three Empires

  • 112- Captured Alive

  • 111- Phase One Complete

  • 110- A Gothic Horror

  • 109- The New Millenium

  • 108- Gordian's Knot

  • 107- The Year of the Six Emperors

  • 106- Barbarian at the Gate

  • 105- The Last Princeps

  • 104- Here Comes the Sun

  • 103- The Equestrian

  • 102- The Common Enemy of Mankind

  • 101- And All Was of Little Value

  • 100- Black and White and Severus All Over

  • 099- What Evil Have I Done?

  • 098- Purchasing Power

  • 097- The Fall of Hercules

  • 096- The Most Aptly Named Emperor

  • 095- The Beginning of the End

  • 094- Revolt and Meditations

  • 093- The Marcomannic Wars

  • 092- The Parthian War

  • 091- Marcus and Lucius and the Parthians

  • 090- The Hundredth Episode

  • 089- Provincial Matters

  • 088- A Day in the Life

  • 087- Thinking and Feeling

  • 086- Wealth and Class

  • 085- Antoninus the Dutiful

  • 084- Longing For Death

  • 083- May His Bones Be Crushed

  • 082- Hadrian's Walls

  • 081- The Greekling

  • 080- Optimus Trajan

  • 079- The Dacian Wars

  • 078- Imperial Stop Gap

  • 077- What Time is It?

  • 076- Mock Triumphs

  • 075- The Forgotten Son

  • 074- Friends I Have Wasted a Day

  • 073- The Only Man Who Improved

  • 072- Vitellius and Vespasian

  • 071- Otho and Vitellius

  • 070- Galba and Otho: The History of Rome

  • 069- As History of Rome Wedding

  • 068- Three Emperors

  • 067- What an Artist the World is Losing

  • 066- 666

  • 065- Burn It To The Ground

  • 064- Smite My Womb

  • 063- A Farewell to Claudius

  • 062- Take My Wife...Please

  • 061- What, me Claudius?

  • 060- No Better Slave, No Worse Master

  • 058- Partner of my Labors

  • 059- To the Tiber with Tiberius

  • 057- Germanicus

  • 056- The King is Dead, Long Live the King

  • 055- Teutoburg Nightmares

  • 054- All in the Family

  • 053- Reigning Supreme

  • 052- Caesar Augustus

  • 051- Actium

  • 050- The Donations of Alexandria

  • 049- Apollo and Dionysus

  • 048- The Second Triumvirate

  • 047- Octavius-Octavian

  • 046- Sic Semper Tyrannis

  • 045- The End of the War

  • 044- Caesar Triumphant

  • 043- Insert Well Known Idiom Here

  • 042- Meanwhile, Back in Rome

  • 041b- The Gallic Wars

  • 041a- The Gallic Wars

  • 040- In the Consulship of Julius and Caesar

  • 039- The Young Julius Caesar Chronicles

  • 038- The Catiline Conspiracy

  • 037- Go East Young Man

  • 036- I Am Spartacus!

  • 035- Crassus and Pompey

  • 034- No Greater Friend, No Worse Enemy

  • 033- Marius and Sulla

  • 032- The Social War

  • 031b- Marius

  • 031a- Marius

  • 030- Gaius Gracchus

  • 029- Tiberius Gracchus

  • 028- Taking Stock

  • 027- Mopping Up

  • 026- The Third Macedonian War

  • 025- The Syrian War

  • 024- The Second Macedonian War

  • 023e- The War With Hannibal

  • 023d- The War With Hannibal

  • 023c- The War With Hannibal

  • 023b- The War With Hannibal

  • 023a- The War With Hannibal

  • 022- Prelude to the Second Punic War

  • 021- Interbellum

  • 020b- The First Punic War

  • 020a- The First Punic War

  • 019- Prelude to the First Punic War

  • 018- A History of Rome Christmas

  • 017- Pyrrhic Victories

  • 016- The Third Samnite War

  • 015b- The Second Samnite War

  • 015a- The Second Samnite War

  • 014b- A Phalanx With Joints

  • 014a- A Phalanx With Joints

  • 013- The Latin War

  • 012- The First Samnite War

  • 011- The Morning After

  • 010: Barbarians at the Gates

  • 009- A Trojan War

  • 008- Decades of Gloom

  • 007- The Roman Washington

  • 006- The Twelve Tables

  • 005- Trials and Tribunlations

  • 004- The Public Thing

  • 003b- The Seven Kings of Rome

  • 003a- The Seven Kings of Rome

  • 002- Youthful Indiscretions

  • 001- In the Beginning

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