October 27, 2017 • 44m
Examining the day in 202BC when Rome defeated the might of Carthage at the Battle of Zama. This decisive moment set Rome on the path to greatness.
November 3, 2017 • 44m
Bettany Hughes relates the events of 73BC when a Thracian gladiator started a slave revolt that so panicked the Roman elite that t...Read more
November 10, 2017 • 44m
Rome had defeated her great rival Carthage and overcame a slave revolt led by Spartacus, but these victories came at a price. Army...Read more
November 17, 2017 • 44m
Upon Julius Caesar's death, his 18-year-old great nephew stepped into the delicate balance of power and became Rome's first empero...Read more
November 24, 2017 • 44m
It's 60 A.D. Seventeen years after the invasion of Britannia, Roman forces march into the settlement of the Iceni tribe, flog its ...Read more
December 1, 2017 • 44m
It's 54 A.D. and Nero just succeeded his stepfather Claudius to become the fifth emperor of Rome. What followed was 14 years of cr...Read more
December 8, 2017 • 44m
Out of the carnage of Emperor Nero's death and the civil war that followed, a new imperial dynasty was born, one that looked to wi...Read more
December 15, 2017 • 44m
After more than a century of steady Roman decline, one man restores order to the disintegrating empire, setting it on a new course...Read more