A witch occupied a strange niche in the Roman world. Distrusted but respected, persecuted but employed by the most elite, a witch in Rome existed on the sidelines and spoken of in hushed terms, and to many of the powerful, a weapon that could be employed.
Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Head of Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University)
Episode CXXXI - Champions of the People (Gracchi IV)
Episode CXXX - Unpopular Reforms (Gracchi III)
Episode CXXIX - Tiberius Gracchus and the Landless Masses (Gracchi II)
Episode CXXVIII - Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (Gracchi I)
Episode CXXVII - Augustus: The Making of an Emperor (Live in Melbourne)
Episode CXXVI - Vestal Virgins
Episode CXXV - Call Me Not a Lord, for I Am a Lady (Elagabalus III)
Episode CXXIV – The Lowest Depths of Foulness (Elagabalus II)
Episode CXXIII - Here Comes the Sun (Elagabalus I)
Episode CXXII - Purple by Merit
Episode CXXI - Assassination
Episode CXX - Adultery
Episode CXIX - Fragments of Early Roman Literature
Episode CXVIII - The Roman Calendar
Episode CXVII – Disgraced Human Nature (Caracalla V)
Episode CXVI - Red Wedding (Caracalla IV)
Episode CXV - Ausonian Beast (Caracalla III)
Episode CXIV - Mutilating Rome (Caracalla II)
Episode CXIII - Fratricidal Discord (Caracalla I)
Episode CXII - The Book of Love
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