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A chronological history of Rome focusing on a building, a sculpture, a painting, or an artefact each episode.
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A Podcast About Rome. Episode 12: The Colosseum.
Listen now (25 min) | The Flavian Amphitheatre is undoubtedly one of the most famous buildings in the world, and an extraordinary manifestation of the…
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Agnes Crawford
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A Podcast About Rome. Episode 11: Nero's Golden House.
Listen now (15 min) | (& how it inspired the K2 phone box among much else)
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A Podcast about Rome. Episode 10: Insouciant exoticism and engineering triumph - Porta Maggiore and the Claudian Aqueduct.
Listen now (16 min) | The closest point of the Aurelian Wall to my apartment is also one of my absolute favourite parts. It is the Porta Maggiore…
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Agnes Crawford
A Podcast about Rome. Episode 9: The Ships of Caligula at Lake Nemi.
Listen now (17 min) | The third of Rome’s emperors was Caligula: famously “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. Among the many extravagances of his short…
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A Podcast about Rome. Part 8: The Ara Pacis Augustae
Listen now (18 min) | The Ara Pacis is arguably the finest surviving visual representation of the multiple iconographic motifs employed by Augustus to…
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Agnes Crawford
A Podcast about Rome. Part 7: Laocoön and His Sons.
Listen now (16 min) | As I’ve mentioned here, at pretty much every opportunity, Rome has long been obsessed by her own origins. Those legendary origins…
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A Podcast about Rome. Part 6: Sulla and the Tabularium
Listen now (18 min) | First of all apologies for the delay, expect a flurry of podcasts to get back on schedule. The next will be about Augustus and the…
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