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 XLVIII - Trajan: Optimus Princeps
Episode XLVII - Pliny the Younger
Episode XLVI - Trajan vs Dacia
Episode XLV - In Trajan we Trust
Interlude - Valerius Flaccus
Interlude - Q and A II
Episode XLIV - Roman Sexuality
Episode XLIII - Virgil
Interlude - Latin Pronunciation
Episode XLII - A Lesson in Latin
Episode XLI - Nerva
Episode XL - What is an Emperor? (redux)
Episode XXXIX - Asterix and the Missing Scroll
Episode XXXVIII - Domitian Must Die
Episode XXXVII - Domitian Dominates
Episode XXXVI - The Debut of Domitian
Interlude - Titus' Birthday
Episode XXXV - A Pleasant Surprise From the Emperor Titus
Episode XXXIV - Titus and the Siege of Jerusalem
Episode XXXIII - Emperor Vespasian, Becoming a God
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