LOST ROMAN HEROES
oleh Matteo & Matthew Storm
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Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 108: Heraclius (Part 8 - The Warrior…
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A father and son ancient history podcast that dives deep into the history of Rome, from its founding to its death, uncovering Rome’s greatest heroes along the way. We read the sources, share lost Romans' incredible stories, debate their legacy, and at the end of every episode we score our hero and decide whether they belong in the Hall of Heroes.
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- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 108: Heraclius (Part 8 - The Warrior Emperor) · 1 jam 4 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 108Saturday, 12 December 627. Mist on the plain of Nineveh, coming up off the Tigris. For six weeks Heraclius has been running, or appearing to run. Baggage train sent to the…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 107: Heraclius (Part 7 - Mission Impossible) · 45 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 107Constantinople held. The City had survived the Great Siege. But the war with Persia was far from over. The Persians still had the overwhelming advantage in every way that…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 106: Heraclius (Part 6 - The Great Siege) · 48 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 106In the summer of 626, two empires agreed to end Rome together. Khosrow sent Shahrbaraz, his finest general, to the Asian shore. The Avar Khagan came down from the Danube with…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 105: Heraclius (Part 5 - The Ghost Army) · 1 jam 4 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 105In 625 the Persians sent three armies to finish him. Shahrbaraz, Shahin, and Shahraplakan. Three converging forces, hunting one Roman emperor through the mountains of the…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 104: Heraclius (Part 4 - The Gamble) · 49 mntDEUS ADIUTA ROMANIS. May God help the Romans. Because everything else had already been tried. The church gold is melted. The coins are struck. The army is waiting in Bithynia…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 103: Heraclius (Part 3 - Rock Bottom) · 44 mntHe defeated Phocas. He was crowned emperor. He married the love of his life on the same extraordinary day. And then, for a decade, everything went wrong. By 612 AD, Heraclius…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 102: Heraclius (Part 2 - Darkness Falls) · 52 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 102Heraclius arrived on a warship and without shedding a drop of blood, he rid Rome of evil Phocas. Fair-haired. Young. An icon of the Virgin on the prow. That was Heraclius…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 101: Heraclius (Part 1 - The Tyrant) · 59 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 101Rome had survived Nero. Rome had survived Caligula, Commodus, and Caracalla. Rome had survived the Crisis of the Third Century, the Huns, the Vandals, the Goths, and a plague…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 100: Leander & Isidore · 1 jam 2 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 100LRH Episode 100! We travel to Visigothic Spain to meet the two brothers who saved Roman civilization. Leander of Seville, best friend of Pope Gregorius, made Spain Catholic…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 99: How Slavery Made Rome with Emma Southon · 55 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 99Join LRH as we interview historian and podcaster Emma Southon, author of the recently published "Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire." For 98 episodes we've…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 98: Father's Day Special with History in Zoomer · 1 jam 9 mntToday we collaborate with the awesome father-daughter team of Roly and Maddie from the History in Zoomer Podcast for a very special Father's Day Episode. Together we explore…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 97: Gregory the Great (Part 2) · 55 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 97Rome is an island in a Lombard sea. The emperor is in Constantinople, offering criticism instead of troops. The plague is killing people in the streets. And Gregory, the man who…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 96 - Gregory the Great (Part 1) · 44 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 96In 540 AD, Rome had thirty thousand people struggling to survive, living inside walls built for a million. Sheep grazed in the forums of Augustus and Trajan. Into this world was…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 95: Lost Roman Women with Ladies of Lore · 1 jam 29 mntThis week we're doing something a little different. We've joined forces with the wonderful Ladies of Lore, a podcast dedicated to the fierce, forgotten and fascinating women of…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 94: Mauricius (Part 2 - Apogee & Disaster) · 53 mntIn Part 2 of Mauricius' tale, the empire that he spent twenty years building begins to crack from within. We meet the generals he trusted, the ones he sidelined, and the ones he…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 93: Mauricius (Part 1 - The Rise) · 48 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 93The young man from Arabissus catches the eye of Tiberius, rises through the Excubitors, and is sent to command the Roman eastern legions in the middle of a major Roman-Persian…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 92: Gregory of Tours · 1 jam 0 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 93Gallo-Roman aristocrat, Bishop and Saint, Gregory kept a small flame alive in what had been Roman Gaul as the darkness fell in the 6th century with the arrival of Clovis and the…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 91: Tiberius II · 1 jam 17 mntTiberius was a handsome young man, born into a humble Thracian family in post-plague Rome. He enters the civil service as a notarius, and quickly rises to the very top of the…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 90: Belisarius, Man Behind the Myth with Dr. David Parnell · 1 jam 2 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 90Belisarius. Who was the man behind the myth? Are we right to feel uncharitably towards Antonina and Narses? Why did Justinian treat his best general and friend so poorly? And why…
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 89: Procopius · 59 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 89Procopius was raised in Caesarea, the capital of Rome's Palaestina province, and was likely educated in Gaza and Beirut. A lawyer by training, he was plucked from obscurity by…
