The historian Edward Gibbon perhaps summed up Caracalla quite succinctly, when he used this phrase to describe his demise while answering a call of nature on the side of the road: "Such was the end of a monster whose life disgraced human nature, and whose reign accused the patience of the Romans."
Guest:
Dr Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University)
Episode XXXVII - Domitian Dominates
Episode XXXVI - The Debut of Domitian
Interlude - Titus' Birthday
Episode XXXV - A Pleasant Surprise From the Emperor Titus
Episode XXXIV - Titus and the Siege of Jerusalem
Episode XXXIII - Emperor Vespasian, Becoming a God
Episode XXXII - Vespasian, as Prophesised
Episode XXXI - Enter Vespasian
Episode XXX - Vitellius
Episode XXIX - Otho
Episode XXVIII - Galba
Interlude - Reading List II
Episode XXVII - Ovid
Episode XXVI - Seneca the Younger
Episode XXV - Livia
Episode XXIV - Cicero
Episode XXIII - Romans vs Christians
Episode XXII - What a Artist Dies in Nero
Episode XXI - The Great Fire of Rome in 64CE
Interlude - Q and A
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