The History Of Rome
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 73:27:37
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Synopsis
A weekly podcast tracing the rise, decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Episodes
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042- Meanwhile, Back in Rome
28/02/2010 Duration: 24minWhile Caesar was fighting the Gallic Wars, events in Rome and beyond exacerbated the political tensions that would eventually lead to Civil War.
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041b- The Gallic Wars
28/02/2010 Duration: 25minFrom 57-52 BC Caesar slowly conquered Gaul. Along the way he crossed into Germania twice and led the first Roman expedition to Britain. Finally, the last Gallic army was forced to surrender at Alesia.
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041a- The Gallic Wars
28/02/2010 Duration: 20minAfter beginning his proconsulship of Cisalpine Gaul in 58 BC Caesar was asked to halt the advance of a migrating Celtic tribe. He managed to turn them around, but was immediately called to face an even deadlier threat at the banks of the Rhine River.
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040- In the Consulship of Julius and Caesar
28/02/2010 Duration: 23minIn 59 BC Julius Caesar served a controversial year in the consulship. He pressed for land and administrative reforms the conservative Senate opposed.
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039- The Young Julius Caesar Chronicles
28/02/2010 Duration: 22minJulius Caesar had an eventful career on his way up the Cursus Honorum. He won the Civic Crown in Asia, was captured by pirates on his way to Rhodes, and served as Governor of Hispania Ulterior.
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038- The Catiline Conspiracy
28/02/2010 Duration: 20minIn 63 BC an embittered two-time consular candidate named Catiline conspired to overthrow the Roman government. He was stopped by Rome's greatest politician and orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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037- Go East Young Man
28/02/2010 Duration: 19minAfter clearing the Mediterranean of pirates in 67 BC Pompey was put in charge of the war with Mithridates. He promptly conquered his way to Jerusalem.
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036- I Am Spartacus!
28/02/2010 Duration: 19minFrom 73-71 BC a gladiator named Spartacus led a slave revolt in southern Italy. Despite defeating the Romans on numerous occasions, the slave army was eventually defeated by Marcus Crassus (with an unsolicited assist from Pompey).
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035- Crassus and Pompey
28/02/2010 Duration: 19minAfter Sulla's death two men emerged as the vanguard of Rome's new political generation: Marcus Crassus who would become Rome's richest man and Pompey the Great, who would become Rome's greatest general. In a few years these two men would join forces with Julius Caesar to form the first Triumvirate.
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034- No Greater Friend, No Worse Enemy
28/02/2010 Duration: 20minSulla returned from the east and after winning a short Civil War was made Dictator for Life. After purging his enemies and reorganizing the consitution he inexplicably stepped down in 80 BC.
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