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 CCIV - Octavian's Illyrian War
Episode CCIII - Augustan Egypt
Episode CCII - The Death of Cleopatra and Antony
Episode CCI - Actium
Episode CC - Cleopatra and Antony (Live in Melbourne)
Episode CXCIX - Sextus Pompeius
Episode CXCVIII - Octavia
Episode CXCVII - The Perusine War
Episode CXCVI - Fulvia
Episode CXCV - Q and A VIII
Episode CXCIV - Sea Monsters in Roman Mythology
Episode CXCIII - The Humiliation of Caesar (Valerian III)
Episode CXCII - The Persecution of Christians (Valerian II)
Episode CXCI - Empire Under Siege (Valerian)
Episode CXC - I, Augustus (with Brian Blessed)
Episode CLXXXIX - Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (Live in Canberra)
Episode CLXXXVIII - How to Win a Consular Election
Episode CLXXXVII - The Battle of Philippi
Episode CLXXXVI - Proscriptions
Episode CLXXXV - The Second Triumvirate
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