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Real Roman History

Real Roman History

著者： Hugo Prudentius
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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 the right one.

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  • Episode 82. A Tour of the Empire, c. 68 CE

    Episode 82. A Tour of the Empire, c. 68 CE
    2026/08/27
    Works CitedPrimary Sources
    • Cassius Dio. Roman History, particularly the books covering the Julio-Claudian period, with substantial geographic-administrative material throughout.
    • The inscriptional record. The legionary establishment data is principally from the dedicatory inscriptions, military diplomas, and other epigraphic sources that preserve the locations and identities of the legionary units of the early imperial period.
    • Pliny the Elder. Natural History, especially Books 3 through 6. Composed in the 70s CE and preserving the most detailed contemporary geographic survey of the imperial system.
    • Strabo. Geography, in seventeen books. Composed in the early imperial period and preserving substantial material on the geography of the empire as it existed under Augustus and Tiberius.
    • Tacitus. Annals and Histories. Preserving substantial material on the provincial administration of the Julio-Claudian and early Flavian periods.
    Secondary Sources
    • Campbell, Brian. The Roman Army, 31 BC to AD 337. Routledge, 1994. Substantial material on the geographic distribution and political role of the imperial legions.
    • Garnsey, Peter, and Richard Saller. The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture. Second edition, Bloomsbury, 2014. The standard scholarly textbook on the imperial system, with substantial material on provincial economies and administrative structures.
    • Jones, A. H. M. The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces. Second edition, Oxford University Press, 1971. The classic detailed treatment of the urban network of the eastern provinces.
    • Mattern, Susan. Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate. University of California Press, 1999. The standard scholarly treatment of the military-geographic structure of the empire.
    • Millar, Fergus. The Roman Empire and its Neighbours. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967. Standard older treatment with substantial geographic-administrative material.
    • Woolf, Greg. Becoming Roman. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Major work on the Romanisation of Gaul and the western provinces.


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    56 分
  • Episode 81. The Jewish War and the Making of Vespasian

    Episode 81. The Jewish War and the Making of Vespasian
    2026/08/27
    Works Cited Primary Sources Josephus. The Jewish War, Books 2 and 3. The principal source for this episode and, for most of it, the only source. Book 2 covers the procuratorships, the Caesarea dispute, the seventeen talents, the Upper Market killings, Agrippa the Second's speech, the ending of the sacrifice, the factional killings in Jerusalem, and the destruction of Cestius Gallus's column at Beth Horon. Book 3 covers Nero's appointment of Vespasian, the assembly of the army at Ptolemais, and the Galilean campaign including the siege of Jotapata. Josephus commanded the Jewish forces in Galilee during the events of Book 3 and wrote in Rome under Flavian patronage. Every figure and every judgement in the work should be read with both facts in view.Josephus. The Life. His autobiographical defence of his conduct as commander in Galilee, written decades later in response to the rival account of Justus of Tiberias. It contradicts the Jewish War at several points on his own actions and is the principal evidence for how contested his conduct was among his contemporaries.Josephus. Jewish Antiquities, Book 20. The sequence of procurators from Cuspius Fadus to Gessius Florus, including the material on Felix and Albinus drawn on in Part One.Suetonius. Life of Nero. Cited in Episode 78. Used here for the Greek tour and the position Nero was in when the news from Judaea reached him.Suetonius. Life of Vespasian. The early career, the Claudian invasion of Britain, the African governorship, and the account of Vespasian falling asleep during Nero's recital and the disgrace that followed. Suetonius had access to imperial records and is the fullest source for Vespasian's life before the Judaean command.Tacitus. Histories, Book 5. The opening chapters give a compressed Roman retrospect on Judaea under the procurators and the outbreak of the war. The characterisation of Antonius Felix as a man who wielded the power of a king with the temperament of a slave is Tacitus's, and it is the one substantial independent check on Josephus's portrait of the procuratorships.Archaeological Evidence Caesarea Maritima. The harbour works, the theatre, the aqueducts, and the inscription recording Pontius Pilate's prefecture. The excavated city is the physical setting for the civic dispute that opened the war.The coinage of the revolt. Silver shekels and half-shekels struck in Jerusalem from the first year of the war, inscribed in palaeo-Hebrew script with the legends Shekel of Israel and Jerusalem the Holy, and dated by year of the revolt. They are the only substantial body of evidence produced by the rebel administration itself rather than by its enemies or by Josephus, and the decision to strike silver at all was a direct assertion of sovereignty.Gamla. The fortified town in the Golan taken during the Galilean campaign, extensively excavated. The wall, the breach, the siege works, and the arrowhead and ballista distribution are all recoverable, and the site was never reoccupied, which makes the destruction layer unusually legible.Masada. Yigael Yadin's excavations of the 1960s and the subsequent work established the Herodian palace complex, the armoury, and the Roman siege apparatus. Relevant here for Menahem's seizure of the fortress and the arms he took from it in 66 CE.Yodfat. The site identified with Josephus's Jotapata, excavated from the 1990s. The excavations recovered the fortification line, evidence of the Roman siege ramp, arrowheads and ballista stones, and human remains in cisterns consistent with the aftermath Josephus describes. The site is one of the few places where his narrative can be tested against physical evidence, and it holds up unusually well.Secondary Sources Goodman, Martin. Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations. Allen Lane, 2007. The broader treatment of the relationship across the whole period and the fullest recent account of why two systems that had accommodated each other for decades stopped being able to.Goodman, Martin. The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt against Rome, A.D. 66–70. Cambridge University Press, 1987. The argument that the revolt originated in the failure of the Jewish ruling class Rome had chosen to govern through, rather than in Roman misgovernment alone. The structural framing of Part One follows Goodman.Levick, Barbara. Vespasian. Routledge, 1999. The standard modern biography and the framework for Part Five's treatment of why Nero chose him and what the command did to his prospects.Mason, Steve. A History of the Jewish War, A.D. 66–74. Cambridge University Press, 2016. The major recent revisionist treatment, which questions whether the events of 66 CE constituted a unified national revolt at all and reads much of the standard narrative as an artefact of Josephus's own shaping. Not followed on every point here, but the caution it urges about the received account is applied throughout.Smallwood, E. Mary. The Jews under Roman ...
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  • Episode 80. Agrippina the Younger: Mother of an Emperor

    Episode 80. Agrippina the Younger: Mother of an Emperor
    2026/08/20
    Works Cited Primary Sources
    • Cassius Dio. Roman History, especially Books 59, 60, and 61. Greek narrative incorporating the developed hostile tradition. Particularly useful for the late-Claudian and early-Neronian political background.
    • Pliny the Elder. Natural History, 7.71. The principal reference to Agrippina's own writing about her family.
    • Suetonius. Life of Caligula, Life of Claudius, and Life of Nero. Substantial material on Agrippina across all three biographies. Generally consistent with the hostile tradition Tacitus preserves, with additional emphasis on sexual material.
    • Tacitus. Annals, especially Books 11 through 14. The principal narrative source for Agrippina's political career from the late Claudian period through the matricide. The matricide narrative is preserved at 14.1 through 14.13. The memoir reference is at 4.53.
    • The contemporary inscriptional and numismatic material. Coins from 50 CE onward depicting Agrippina alongside Claudius, and from late 54 and 55 CE depicting her alongside Nero, preserve substantial direct evidence of her political position that is independent of the literary hostile tradition.
    Secondary Sources
    • Barrett, Anthony A. Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire. Yale University Press, 1996. The standard modern scholarly biography. The framework of this episode owes substantial debts to Barrett's analysis.
    • Ginsburg, Judith. Representing Agrippina: Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, 2006. The major scholarly treatment of the historiographical question that Part Seven of this episode engages.
    • Hemelrijk, Emily. Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna. Routledge, 1999. The standard treatment of female intellectual culture in the imperial period, with substantial material on Agrippina's memoir and its place in the broader tradition.
    • Wood, Susan E. Imperial Women: A Study in Public Images, 40 BC to AD 68. Brill, 1999. Important work on the visual and material culture of imperial women, including substantial analysis of the Agrippina coinage and portraiture.


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