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  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 97: Gregory the Great (Part 2)

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 97: Gregory the Great (Part 2)
    2026/06/14
    Rome 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 tried to flee his own election hidden in a wine cask, is the only one left to save it. In Part 2, we watch a reluctant monk become the de facto ruler of Italy, negotiate face-to-face with a Lombard king, and send a nervous monk to convert an England that Rome had abandoned for nearly two centuries. He fed the hungry, freed slaves by name, and kept the light burning when no one else would. He built the foundation of medieval civilization while thinking he was just keeping the ancient world alive. He never wanted the title. He never stopped earning it. The last man built from truly Roman parts, trying, until the very end, simply to be good, he wound up being truly Great.
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    55 分
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 96 - Gregory the Great (Part 1)

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 96 - Gregory the Great (Part 1)
    2026/05/31
    In 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 born one of the last great Roman aristocrats, a man who would give away his fortune, flee to a monastery, get sent to Constantinople, and spend six years politely chastising Emperor Mauricius, would would not listen, or did not care, about the forgotten children of the fallen Western Empire. This is Gregory the Great. Part 1.
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    43 分
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 95: Lost Roman Women with Ladies of Lore

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 95: Lost Roman Women with Ladies of Lore
    2026/05/17
    This 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 history, mythology and folklore, to bring you three exceptional women who helped keep Rome alive when the men around them were dropping the ball. Galla Placidia, who survived sack, exile and captivity to rule the Western Empire. Anicia Juliana, who outmaneuvered an emperor to build the greatest church in Constantinople. And Theodora, who told a room full of panicking men exactly what she thought of running away. Three absolute powerhouses, to whom we owe a great debt, they defined Rome, they held the line, and yet were largely forgotten...
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    1 時間 30 分
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 94: Mauricius (Part 2 - Apogee & Disaster)

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 94: Mauricius (Part 2 - Apogee & Disaster)
    2026/05/03
    In 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 should never have appointed (like brother Petrus). We follow the Avars and the Slavs as they push the Balkans to the breaking point. And we watch as one man's iron discipline, the very quality that made him great , becomes the thing that destroys him. A fatal order. A mutiny. A centurion named Phocas. And an ending that even Gibbon of the severe and vicious tongue could barely bring himself to describe.
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    53 分
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 93: Mauricius (Part 1 - The Rise)

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 93: Mauricius (Part 1 - The Rise)
    2026/04/19
    The 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 war with no experience under his belt! And what does the paper pusher do? He wins! And wins again, pushing Roman arms deeper into Persian territory than they have been for many decades. When Emperor Tiberius dies, the rising star Mauricius becomes the new Augustus and gets to work, making radical changes to prepare Rome for a new world, creating the Exarchates, penning the Strategikon, and cutting fat in the legions, while making many, many new enemies in the process...
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    48 分
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 92: Gregory of Tours

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 92: Gregory of Tours
    2026/03/29
    Gallo-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 Merovingian dynasty that would give birth to France. If it were not for Gregory's histories, this period after the Western Empire had collapsed would be lost to time. But Gregory preserves a remarkable age for us, and paints technicolor portraits of a violent age in which threads of Rome can still be discerned in the lengthening shadows.
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  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 91: Tiberius II

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 91: Tiberius II
    2026/03/15
    Tiberius 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 Roman world, from Count of the Excubitors, to Magister Militum Praesentalis, to Caesar, and finally to Emperor where he takes over from crazed Justin II. In his reign he reminds Rome that there is hope, distributing imperial largesse, forgiving debts, and struggling to stabilize the impossible frontiers Justinian had created. Just when Rome started to feel like Rome again, he dies young, the victim of poisoning, accidental, or deliberate? With his death, the death of the ancient world feels that much closer...
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    1 時間 18 分
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 90: Belisarius, Man Behind the Myth with Dr. David Parnell

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 90: Belisarius, Man Behind the Myth with Dr. David Parnell
    2026/03/01
    Belisarius. 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 exactly did Procopius place Belisarius on a richly deserved pedestal in the "Wars" and then tear him down in the "Secret History"? Join us with professor and historian Dr. David Parnell, author of "Belisarius and Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian", as we try to answer these vexing questions about the man that did more than any other since Aurelian to restore the Empire to greatness.
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    1 時間 3 分