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 CXXV - Call Me Not a Lord, for I Am a Lady (Elagabalus III)
Episode CXXIV – The Lowest Depths of Foulness (Elagabalus II)
Episode CXXIII - Here Comes the Sun (Elagabalus I)
Episode CXXII - Purple by Merit
Episode CXXI - Assassination
Episode CXX - Adultery
Episode CXIX - Fragments of Early Roman Literature
Episode CXVIII - The Roman Calendar
Episode CXVI - Red Wedding (Caracalla IV)
Episode CXV - Ausonian Beast (Caracalla III)
Episode CXIV - Mutilating Rome (Caracalla II)
Episode CXIII - Fratricidal Discord (Caracalla I)
Episode CXII - The Book of Love
Episode CXI - The Equestrian Order
Episode CX - Anthology of Interest
Episode CIX - Saturnalia
Episode CVIII - A Lesson in Latin II
Episode CVII - The Legacy of Spartacus
Episode CVI - The Third Servile War
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