The historian Edward Gibbon perhaps summed up Caracalla quite succinctly, when he used this phrase to describe his demise while answering a call of nature on the side of the road: "Such was the end of a monster whose life disgraced human nature, and whose reign accused the patience of the Romans."
Guest:
Dr Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University)
Episode CCXXIX - Indomitable Spirit (The Catiline Conspiracy V)
Episode CCXXIII - The Championship of the Oppressed (The Catiline Conspiracy IV)
Episode CCXXII - A Stolen Election (The Catiline Conspiracy III)
Episode CCXXI - An Entire Farrago (The Catiline Conspiracy II)
Episode CCXX - A Disordered Mind (The Catiline Conspiracy I)
Episode CCXIX - Hispala Faecena and the Bacchanalia Conspiracy
Episode CCXVIII - Martial on the Emperors
Episode CCXVII - Angeronalia
Episode CCXVI - A Roman Haunting in Three Parts
Episode CCXV - The Unconquered Sun
Episode CCXIV - Aurelian, Restorer of the Age
Episode CCXIII - Zenobia
Episode CCXII - Aurelian, the Restorer of the World
Episode CCXI - Claudius Gothicus
Episode CCX - A Lesson in Latin III
Episode CCIX - A Diminished Rome
Episode CCVIII - Odaenathus, King of Kings
Episode CCVII - The Gallic Empire
Episode CCVI - Rome Crumbles
Episode CCV - Cleopatra Selene
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