A long-form podcast about the lives of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and beyond.
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18 min
Flame Beats Wood – Vespasian #29
We're at Masada. Silva has his 10th Legion, a 91-metre siege mound, an iron-plated tower, and a battering ram the size of a small building. The 960 Sicarii inside have a second wal…
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16 min
The Dagger Men – Vespasian #28
This episode we're deep into Josephus on the Sicarii, the original cloak-and-dagger assassination squad - literally, they hid curved daggers under their cloaks - who spent the Jewi…
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14 min
One Punch, Paetus – Vespasian #27
Paetus is back. You remember Paetus - the general who declared "mission accomplished" against the Parthians and then immediately had to beg Corbulo to come rescue him. Now, ten yea…
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14 min
The Landlord of Judaea – Vespasian #26
Bassus is mopping up the last Jewish holdouts in Judaea, and things go about as well as you'd expect for everyone who isn't a Roman. The defenders of Machaerus negotiate a deal to…
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14 min
Pliny’s Guide to Menstrual Magic – Vespasian #25
This episode we go deep on the hilltop fortresses still holding out in Judaea after the fall of Jerusalem, which turns into a very long detour through Pliny the Elder's chapter on…
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23 min
A River of Gold – Vespasian #24
We're covering the triumph of Vespasian and Titus, and our eyewitness is Josephus.... a Jewish priest who watched Rome parade the looted contents of his own temple down the street…
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16 min
The God in the Dog Mask – Vespasian #23
This episode we're deep in the Temple of Isis - which turns out to be exactly where Vespasian and Titus had to spend the night before their joint triumph, for reasons both boring a…
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17 min
Titus’ Victory Tour – Vespasian #22
Titus wraps up the Jewish War with a five-month tour of the region, dropping in on city after city with two legions at his back and thousands of Jewish captives in tow.... who he t…
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20 min
The Last Man Standing – Vespasian #21
Vespasian is finally making his way back to Rome and apparently every city he passes through absolutely loses its goddamn mind.... according to Josephus who is, of course, complete…
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18 min
CROWNS FROM THE TEMPLE – Vespasian #20
On this episode, the siege of Jerusalem is over and Titus is handing out medals, melting down temple gold to crown his best soldiers, and carving up his legions for their next post…
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35 min
YHWH v JOVE – Vespasian #19
On this episode, Cameron and Ray wrap up the fall of Jerusalem in September 70 CE — Titus strolls into the ruins, declares Yahweh helped him destroy Yahweh's own temple, and the bo…
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21 min
UNLEASH THE CARL – Vespasian #18
This week we finally reach the end of the Siege of Jerusalem — and it's brutal. Titus storms the upper city, the rebels' back is broken, Simon and John have vanished into the tunne…
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30 min
Goddamn it, Carl! – Vespasian #17
It's August 70 CE, and the siege of Jerusalem is entering its apocalyptic final act. In this episode, Cameron and Ray pick up where the last one left off — starving rebels launchin…
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31 min
Slip, Trip, and Slit – Vespasian #16
It's 70 CE, the walls of Jerusalem are crumbling, and the city is eating itself alive — literally. In this episode of Life of Caesar, Cameron and Ray wade deep into Josephus's harr…
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34 min
Vespasian #13 – Titus Likes It Tight
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1 h 14
Gallienus: The Pragmatist Who Kept Rome Alive
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33 min
Vespasian #7 – Birds, Betrayal, and the Birth of Christianity
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21 min
Vespasian #6 – Bitumen, Blood, and Bias
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27 min
Vespasian #5 – Circumcision, Sabbath, and Salt
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1 h 18
Vespasian #4 – Marc Hyden, author, “Emperor Titus”
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