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A Podcast about Rome. Episode 14. Paranoia and Porphyry: Domitian and the Domus Flavia on the Palatine Hill
Listen now (19 mins) | When visiting the ruins of the imperial palaces on the bucolic and ever-glorious Palatine Hill—possibly my favourite place in the…
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Agnes Crawford
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July 2023
May 2023
April 2023
A Podcast About Rome. Episode 11: Nero's Golden House.
Listen now (15 mins) | (& how it inspired the K2 phone box among much else)
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Agnes Crawford
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A Podcast about Rome. Episode 10: Insouciant exoticism and engineering triumph - Porta Maggiore and the Claudian Aqueduct.
Listen now (16 mins) | 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
March 2023
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December 2022
October 2022
A Podcast about Rome. Part 6: Sulla and the Tabularium
Listen now (18 mins) | First of all apologies for the delay, expect a flurry of podcasts to get back on schedule. The next will be about Augustus and…
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Agnes Crawford
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August 2022
A Podcast about Rome. Part 5: Hunting Hannibal, traces of the Punic Wars in Rome.
Listen now (16 mins) | Last time I spoke of the Republican “Servian” Walls of Rome, today we will look at how those walls became redundant following the…
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Agnes Crawford
May 2022
A Podcast about Rome. Part 4: The "Servian" Wall of the Early Republic.
Listen now | Rome began with a wall. According to legend, on the 21 April 753 BCE Remus stepped over the wall of the Roma Quadrata (literally “the…
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Agnes Crawford
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April 2022
A Podcast about Rome. Part 3: Etruscan Places and the end of the Kingdom.
Listen now (19 mins) | The Apollo of Veii and the Pyrgi Tablets
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Agnes Crawford
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February 2022
A Podcast about Rome. Part 2: The Lapis Niger and the Heart of Government
Listen now (15 mins) | Welcome to Part 2 of my podcast which seeks to follow a thread of Rome’s history through individual buildings, works of art, and…
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Agnes Crawford
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