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Hah, that was a pretty decent impression. And yeah, for some reason I don't think this forum software supports any video embeds outside of Youtube.
In case anyone's looking for a long and in-depth series of podcasts about the history of Rome, here's one I keep seeing mentioned as a "must-listen."
It is available at podcast sites for your smart-phone app, but I still prefer a stand-alone mp3 player and I finally found a site from which to download them:
https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com.../archives.html
Click on July 2007 to get started.
Edited to add: it’s called The History of Rome by Mike Duncan.
oh nooooo, I'm a Roman history junkie....
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I've listened to the first three so far and it seems pretty good. I only know the basics of Roman history: toga parties, chariot racing, gladiators, the crucifixion of Jesus, and a little of Julius Caesar from reading the play by Shakespeare in high school and more recently thanks to Dan Carlin.
Leon, if you're into Caesar, you might enjoy this free six-hour podcast. Dan tends to make his podcasts free for a while when they're new but eventually you have to pay to download them. You should grab this now if you think you might be interested: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-h...tic-holocaust/
I'm looking forward to educating myself on this important subject. Maybe it will help me understand the mess that Europe became in the middle ages. I remember struggling through a very difficult history class in college about the Holy Roman Empire with an endless cast of characters and far too many names of places to remember. The professor must have been studying it all his life, because I remember how he would come in and lecture with no books or notes and could answer any question about anything from memory. Meanwhile, we students would look at each other and groan when we'd see stuff like this handed out as a test questions:
1. Fill in the names of these territories. :eek:
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You you made the first post I assumed it would be Dan Carlin. But you got there eventually. :lol:
Hey, it's squarely on topic (for once). :D
If you like Roman history, but struggle with the dry stuff.
Mary Beard writes some excellent Roman stuff, about the people not the style of hut building etc.
Also, weirdly, Steven Saylor writes a series of fun mystery / detective novels, set in and around the time of the fall of the republic, with a cast of very infamous names. It's fiction of course, but is really good reading.
Beard is a really great writer for nonacademic audiences - not just for the big history about the legions and emperors, but also a lot of the interesting day-to-day life-of-the-common-man stuff.
And those Saylor books are fun - I should get caught up, I think the last one I read was ~2011 or so. And they're certainly better history than Conn Iggulden's Rome books.
Also, shout-out to HBO's Rome tv series (2005)
All hail Rome 2005, easily one of the best things to have hit a screen.