The Roman Empire Podcast Episodes
Written by Colin Wells
180 Episodes - 384 pages - ★★★★ - 101 ratings
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HoP 077 - Caesarian Section – Philosophy in the Roman Empire
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps - April 22, 2012 08:18 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsIn late antiquity, Aristotelianism and Platonism made a comeback, and pagan philosophy developed alongside Judaism and Christianity.
Securing Seas and Shores: Fleets of the Roman empire
Ancient Warfare Podcast - April 13, 2012 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 495 ratingsIn the usual wide ranging discussion Jasper, Michael, Lindsay and special guest Jesse Obert look at the Roman Navy. Questioning the received view of the fleets being used in anti piracy duties, and were the fleets even standing forces or more of an adhoc thing brought together when needs must? ...
The Death of Julian - Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Chapter 24 Part 1
History Books Review - March 29, 2012 12:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsTo everyone's surprise, Julian was killed in hand to hand fighting in Persia.
Julian Invades Persia Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Chapter 24 Part 1
History Books Review - March 24, 2012 11:49 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsJulian invades the Persian Empire. Nobody knows why, but it was probably motivated by his dislike of the Christians.
Christopher Krebs, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich” (Norton, 2011)
New Books Network - June 22, 2011 18:50 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratingsBeing a historian is a bit of a slog: years in graduate school, more years in dusty libraries and archives, and even more years teaching students who sometimes don’t seem interested in learning what you have to teach. But the job does have its pleasures, and one of the greatest–and surely the gui...
Christopher Krebs, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich” (Norton, 2011)
New Books in History - June 22, 2011 18:50 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsBeing a historian is a bit of a slog: years in graduate school, more years in dusty libraries and archives, and even more years teaching students who sometimes don’t seem interested in learning what you have to teach. But the job does have its pleasures, and one of the greatest–and surely the gui...
Christopher Krebs, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich” (Norton, 2011)
New Books in German Studies - June 22, 2011 18:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBeing a historian is a bit of a slog: years in graduate school, more years in dusty libraries and archives, and even more years teaching students who sometimes don’t seem interested in learning what you have to teach. But the job does have its pleasures, and one of the greatest–and surely the gui...
Christopher Krebs, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich” (Norton, 2011)
New Books in Intellectual History - June 22, 2011 18:50 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 54 ratingsBeing a historian is a bit of a slog: years in graduate school, more years in dusty libraries and archives, and even more years teaching students who sometimes don’t seem interested in learning what you have to teach. But the job does have its pleasures, and one of the greatest–and surely the gui...
Christopher Krebs, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich” (Norton, 2011)
New Books in Western European Studies - June 22, 2011 18:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBeing a historian is a bit of a slog: years in graduate school, more years in dusty libraries and archives, and even more years teaching students who sometimes don’t seem interested in learning what you have to teach. But the job does have its pleasures, and one of the greatest–and surely the gui...
Myth at the heart of the Roman Empire
Myth at the heart of the Roman Empire - for iPod/iPhone - August 17, 2010 13:40 - 1 minute ★★★ - 18 ratingsA short introduction to this album.
Transcript -- Myth at the heart of the Roman Empire
Myth at the heart of the Roman Empire - for iPod/iPhone - August 17, 2010 13:40 - application/pdf ★★★ - 18 ratingsTranscript -- A short introduction to this album.
Myth and the Roman Empire
Myth at the heart of the Roman Empire - for iPod/iPhone - August 17, 2010 13:32 - 5 minutes ★★★ - 18 ratingsOpen University academic Valerie Hope talks about choices behind the material in this album.
Transcript -- Myth and the Roman Empire
Myth at the heart of the Roman Empire - for iPod/iPhone - August 17, 2010 13:32 - application/pdf ★★★ - 18 ratingsTranscript -- Open University academic Valerie Hope talks about choices behind the material in this album.
380-The Fall Of The Roman Empire
Clintcast - May 28, 2010 05:05 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHuman history is loaded with examples of situations where specialization, even for all the progress it often brings, has lead down a dead end when the playing field changed. While specialization is great and definitely needed in many ways, it is critical for us to also pair this specialization wi...
Ep. 96: Audio only--Part 4--The Gospel in the Roman Empire
Grace Alone - October 28, 2009 20:25 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsAudio Only--The Destruction of Jerusalem.
Ep. 95: Part 4--The Gospel in the Roman Empire Series
Grace Alone - October 28, 2009 20:23 - 28 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Destruction of Jerusalem
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Trailers from Hell - September 22, 2009 04:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 9 ratings<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> They don't make 'em like this anymore: those huge sets and cast of thousands aren't computer-generated but absolutely real, and those 1964-era actors are a darn sight more interesting than a lot of those we have on hand today.
Ep. 93--Part 3--The Gospel in the Roman Empire
Grace Alone - August 31, 2009 23:37 - 28 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 4 ratingsPart 3 -- Video Version -- The Rise of Persecution
Feeding the Roman Empire
Imperial Rome and Ostia - for iPad/Mac/PC - August 23, 2009 01:25 - 1 minute - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis track looks at how grain - a staple part of the Roman diet - was shipped in to feed the Roman's and where the grain was stored.
Feeding the Roman Empire
Imperial Rome and Ostia - for iPod/iPhone - August 23, 2009 01:25 - 1 minute - Video ★★★★ - 41 ratingsThis track looks at how grain - a staple part of the Roman diet - was shipped in to feed the Roman's and where the grain was stored.
Transcript -- Feeding the Roman Empire
Imperial Rome and Ostia - for iPod/iPhone - August 23, 2009 01:25 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 41 ratingsTranscript -- This track looks at how grain - a staple part of the Roman diet - was shipped in to feed the Roman's and where the grain was stored.
Transcript -- Feeding the Roman Empire
Imperial Rome and Ostia - for iPad/Mac/PC - August 23, 2009 01:25 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 3 ratingsTranscript -- This track looks at how grain - a staple part of the Roman diet - was shipped in to feed the Roman's and where the grain was stored.
Ep. 92: Audio Only--Part 2--The Gospel in the Roman Empire
Grace Alone - August 04, 2009 20:41 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsPart 2--This is insightful and exciting information on the history of the rising of the Roman Empire and its effect on the spread of the Gospel.
Ep. 91: Video Version--Part 2--The Gospel in the Roman Empire
Grace Alone - August 04, 2009 20:37 - 28 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 4 ratingsPart 2--This is insightful and exciting information on the history of the rising of the Roman Empire and its effect on the spread of the Gospel.
Episode 90: Audio only--The Gospel in the Roman Empire--Part 1
Grace Alone - August 04, 2009 20:35 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis is insightful and exciting information on the history of the rising of the Roman Empire and its effect on the spread of the Gospel.
Ep. 89: The Gospel in the Roman Empire--Part 1
Grace Alone - July 09, 2009 16:41 - 28 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis is insightful and exciting information on the history of the rising of the Roman Empire and its effect on the spread of the Gospel.
Ep. 87: The Intertestamental Period--Gopel in the Roman Empire Series
Grace Alone - May 20, 2009 02:04 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe time between the Old and New Testament, often called "The Silent Years," where anything but silent. God was in fact working in the world scene to set things up for the coming of the Savior and the spread of the Gospel.
Bryan Ward-Perkins on the Fall of the Roman Empire
Interviews with Oxonians - September 13, 2008 21:03 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsBryan Ward-Perkins, a leading historian of Late Antiquity at Trinity College, Oxford, discusses the transitional period between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages.
The Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th century
In Our Time: History - April 05, 2001 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire. Edward Gibbon wrote of its decline, "While that great body was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscu...