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Real Roman History
Hosted by Hugo Prudentius · EN · 48 episodes
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48
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About this podcast
Real Roman History is a comprehensive, chronological account of Rome from its origins to its end—told with the depth the subject deserves. This is not a highlight reel. Every major figure, every turning point, and every war gets the full treatment: the stories as the Romans told them, the ancient sources and what they got right and wrong, and the historical arguments that scholars are still having today. Hugo Prudentius takes listeners from the kings of the early city through the Republic, the civil wars, the empire, and beyond—episode by episode, in sequence, without skipping the parts that made Rome what it was. If other Roman history podcasts have left you wanting more, you've found it.
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Hugo Prudentius hosts Real Roman History, a history show with 48 episodes published.
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Episode 35. Sulla, Part Three: Dictatorship, Reform, and the Resignation
27mEp. 35
SOURCE NOTES: The proscriptions and the dictatorship are covered by Plutarch’s Life of Sulla and Appian’s Civil Wars. The proscription numbers — roughly ninety senators and several thousand equestrians — come from Appian
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Episode 34. Sulla, Part Two: The First March and Mithridates
52mEp. 34
SOURCE NOTES: Plutarch’s Life of Sulla is the primary source for this episode, and Plutarch had a particular personal investment in it: he was born at Chaeronea and his account of the battle there is the most detailed we
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Episode 33. The Cinnan Republic: Rome Without Sulla
37mEp. 33
SOURCE NOTES: The Cinnan period is one of the most poorly sourced stretches of the late Republic. The problem Robin Seager identified in the Cambridge Ancient History cannot be overstated: almost everything we have is fi
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Episode 31. The Social War: Italy Demands What Rome Owes It
32mEp. 31
SOURCE NOTES: The Social War is one of the more poorly sourced events of the late Republic, which is ironic given its importance. Livy covered this period in detail, but those books survive only in the brief summaries ca
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Episode 32. Marius, Part Three: The Terrible Old Man
31mEp. 32
SOURCE NOTES: The principal ancient source for this episode is Plutarch’s Life of Marius, covering the flight, exile, return, and death. Plutarch’s account of the Minturnae episode and the Carthage reply is the most sust
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Episode 19. Scipio Africanus: The Turn of the War
31mEp. 19
SOURCE NOTES: The sources for this period are substantially the same as for the earlier war: Polybius for military analysis and Livy for narrative texture. For the Spanish campaigns, Polybius Books 10 and 11 are essentia
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Episode 12. The Samnite Wars, Part Two: Sentinum and the Conquest of Italy
55mEp. 12
SOURCE NOTES: Primary Sources: Livy, Ab Urbe Condita , Books 9-10. The principal narrative for the Second and Third Samnite Wars. Book 10 (covering 294 to 293 BCE) is particularly detailed and is regarded as among Livy's
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Episode 5. The Struggle of the Orders, Part One: City Divided
49mEp. 5
SOURCE NOTES: Primary Sources: Livy, Ab Urbe Condita , Book II, Chapters 23–33 — the core narrative of the First Secession, including the Menenius Agrippa episode Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities , Books VI–
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Episode 39. Carrhae and Parthia: Rome Meets Its Match in the East
30mEp. 39
SOURCE NOTES: Plutarch’s Life of Crassus is the primary narrative source and the most detailed account of the battle. Plutarch’s account has been criticized for placing too much blame on Crassus personally — a tradition
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Episode 38. Crassus: Wealth, Power, and the Hunger for Glory
26mEp. 38
SOURCE NOTES: Plutarch’s Life of Crassus is the primary source and it is, as the arc plan noted, as much a study in the psychology of ambition as a political biography. Plutarch structures the Life around the single vice
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Episode 37. Spartacus: The Slave War and What It Revealed
25mEp. 37
SOURCE NOTES: No contemporary account of the Servile War survives. The two main sources — Plutarch’s Life of Crassus and Appian’s Civil Wars — were both written more than a century after the events, drawing on earlier wo
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Episode 48. The Rubicon and the Lightning Campaign: Caesar Against the Republic, Part One
47mEp. 48
SOURCE NOTES: Primary Sources: Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili — Caesar's own account, written in third person with characteristic lucidity and propagandistic purpose. Books 1–2 cover the Rubicon through the Spanish
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Episode 47. The Gallic Wars, Part Two: Vercingetorix and the Great Revolt
29mEp. 47
SOURCE NOTES: Caesar's Commentarii are the primary source for the entire Gallic War, and the contrast between how he treats Avaricum — flatly, without evident discomfort — and how he treats Gergovia — honestly, acknowled
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Episode 46. The Gallic Wars, Part One: Conquest Begins
42mEp. 46
SOURCE NOTES: The primary source for the Gallic Wars is the Commentarii de Bello Gallico itself: seven books by Caesar covering 58 to 52 BCE, with an eighth book written by his officer Aulus Hirtius covering 51 to 50 BCE
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Episode 45. Julius Caesar: The Man and the Road to Power
33mEp. 45
SOURCE NOTES: Caesar is the most thoroughly documented figure of the late Republic, and the documentation presents a specific problem: much of it is his own. The Commentarii de Bello Gallico and the Commentarii de Bello
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Episode 44. Cato the Younger: The Man Caesar Could Not Reach
45mEp. 44
SOURCE NOTES: The primary source for Cato’s life is Plutarch’s Life of Cato the Younger, which is among the most carefully constructed Lives in the collection. Plutarch pairs him with Phocion, the Athenian statesman and
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Episode 43. Cicero and the Republic in Crisis: The Man Who Understood Everything and Could Not Stop Anything
38mEp. 43
SOURCE NOTES: Cicero is the most extensively documented figure of the ancient world after Augustus. The primary source challenge is not scarcity but selection: the sheer volume of the surviving corpus means that a podcas
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Episode 42. Pompey the Great, Part Two: The World in His Hands
54mEp. 42
SOURCE NOTES: The primary source for Pompey's life is Plutarch's Life of Pompey, paired with Agesilaus of Sparta. For the period covered in this episode, the Life is at its most careful and most literary: the grain-price
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Episode 36. Sertorius: The Republic in Exile
47mEp. 36
SOURCE NOTES: Plutarch’s Life of Sertorius is the primary source, but it is itself a secondary source: Plutarch drew principally on Sallust’s Histories, which covered the Sertorian War in substantial detail and which sur
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