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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,
Hugo Prudentius hosts Real Roman History, a history show with 63 episodes published.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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–
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Real Roman History is hosted by Hugo Prudentius. The show is categorised under history (society) and has published 63 episodes.
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