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)
Interlude - Reading List I
Episode XV - The Assassination of Caligula
Episode XIV - The Madness of Caligula
Episode XIII - The Rule of Caligula
Episode XII - Tiberius the Gloomiest of Men
Episode XI - Tiberius the Reluctant Emperor
Episode X - The Augustan Succession
Interlude - Pax Romana
Episode IX - Augustan Rome
Episode VIII - The Augustan Revolution
Interlude - What is an Emperor?
Episode VII - The Legacy of Caesar
Episode VI - The Death of Caesar
Episode V - Caesar and Civil War
Episode IV - Caesar's Triumph
Episode III - Caesar and Gaul
Episode II - Caesar the Politician
Episode I - The Early Years of Caesar
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