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 CV - Spartacus the Gladiator
Episode CIV - Slavery
Episode CIII - Old Age in the Roman World
Episode CII - Clodia
Episode CI - The Last Will and Testament of Caesar
Episode C - The Death of Caesar (Live in Melbourne)
Episode XCIX - Q and A IV
Episode XCVIII - Caesar's Gallic War
Episode XCVII - Sallust
Episode XCVI - Dictator of Rome
Episode XCV - The First Triumvirate
Episode XCIV - A Republic Worth Fighting For
Episode XCIII - Powerful Personalities
Episode XCII - The Beginning of the End of the Republic
Episode XCI - The Roman Constitution
Episode XC - Herodes Atticus
Episode LXXXIX - A Man the World Could Not Hold
Episode LXXXVIII – Severan Stories II
Episode LXXXVII – Severan Stories I
Episode LXXXVI – Ascent to Greatness, However Steep and Dangerous
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