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SOURCE NOTES: Plutarch, Life of Cato the Elder — The essential primary biography. The Loeb Classical Library edition with Greek text and English translation is standard; the Penguin Classics edition is accessible. Cato...
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The complete history of Rome, from its origins in the eighth century BCE through the death of Justinian in 565 CE. Thirteen hundred years of one civilization, told in over two hundred episodes.Direct, warm, unhurried. No simplification of what was genuinely complicated. No softening of uncomfortable truths about Rome's heroes or about the people Rome conquered.The series is built by a team with a consistent point of view. History is made by far more people than the emperors and generals the standard narrative remembers. Material conditions shape events as much as individual decisions do. The peoples Rome conquered were full human beings, not scenery. Battles get the attention their scale and consequence require. Sources get characterised honestly, including their biases.Every episode is built from the primary sources, with the secondary scholarship behind it. Where the sources contradict each other or where modern historians disagree, the series says so. Where claims are uncertain,
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The complete history of Rome, from its origins in the eighth century BCE through the death of Justinian in 565 CE. Thirteen hundred years of one civilization, told in over two hundred episodes. Direct, warm, unhurried. No simplification of what was genuinely complicated. No softening of uncomfortable truths about Rome's heroes or about the people Rome conquered.
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Real Roman History is hosted by Hugo Prudentius. The show has published 98 episodes to date.
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Hugo Prudentius hosts Real Roman History, a history podcast with 98 episodes published.
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—31 minSOURCE NOTES: Primary Sources: Livy, Ab Urbe Condita , Books V-VI (trans. B.O. Foster, Loeb Classical Library) — our fullest account Plutarch, Life of Camillus (trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Classics, Makers of...
—28 minSOURCE NOTES: Plutarch, Life of Tiberius Gracchus -- The fullest narrative account; read with awareness of its moralizing purposes. Appian, Civil Wars Book 1, chapters 7-17 -- The analytical account of the agrarian...
—45 minSOURCE NOTES: Appian, Iberica (Hispanic Affairs) — The primary narrative source for both the Celtiberian and Lusitanian wars. His account of Viriatus, the Galba massacre, and the assassination is the fullest we have...
—27 minSOURCE NOTES: Primary Sources: Livy, Ab Urbe Condita , Books II-V (trans. B.O. Foster, Loeb Classical Library; trans. A. de Selincourt, Penguin Classics) Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities , Books VI-IX...
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—29 minSOURCE NOTES: Primary Sources: Plutarch, Life of Coriolanus; Life of Camillus (trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Classics, Makers of Rome, 1965) — essential for both figures Livy, Ab Urbe Condita , Books II-V (trans...
—37 minSOURCE NOTES: Polybius, Histories Books 3 and 22 — Trasimene and Cannae in the most reliable ancient account. Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Books 22–27 — The fullest narrative of the period. Books 22 and 23 cover Trasimene...
—44 minSOURCE NOTES: Plutarch, Life of Marius , chapters 10-30 -- The primary narrative; the Aquae Sextiae and Vercellae accounts, the Saturninus episode. Appian, Civil Wars Book 1, chapters 28-33 -- The Saturninus episode in...
—40 minSOURCE NOTES: The primary source for Pompey's life is Plutarch's Life of Pompey, which forms one of the Parallel Lives paired with Agesilaus of Sparta. Plutarch is sympathetic to Pompey — he presents him as a man of...
Episode #40
Episode 40. Lucullus and the Eastern Wars: The General Who Won Everything and Lost His Command
—40 minSOURCE NOTES: Plutarch’s Life of Lucullus is the primary source, paired in the Parallel Lives with Cimon of Athens. It is one of Plutarch’s more structurally interesting Lives because the two-part arc — military and...
Episode #36
Episode 36. Sertorius: The Republic in Exile
—47 minSOURCE 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...
—27 minSOURCE 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...
—52 minSOURCE 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...
—37 minSOURCE 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...
—32 minSOURCE 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...
—32 minSOURCE 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...
—31 minSOURCE 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...
—56 minSOURCE 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...
—49 minSOURCE 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...
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