The Roman Republic Podcast: Recent Episodes
Phillip Madison
The Roman Republic Podcast features the story of Rome before there were any emperors on the scene. We discuss in detail the mythic origins of Rome in lead up to the greatest republic in ancient history!!
Romulus, King of Rome and a child of war, builds the foundations of Rome atop bones and blood only fall to his knees in front of compassion.
Betrayal, virgins, and a woodpecker. All of this and more in this episode of The Roman Republic Podcast
The founder of the Latin peoples and an ancestor of Julius Caesar, Aeneas was a legendary Greco-Roman figure who embarked on an epic journey from Troy to Italy in search of a new home after the destruction of his old one. Aeneas' journey marks the beginning of what the Romans believed to be their origin story and thus The Roman Republic Podcast will begin with his saga.
Source Material
The History of Rome, Livy Volumes 1-5. Translated with Introduction and Notes by Valerie M. Warrior. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Indianapolis/Cambridge
Plutarch's Lives, Plutarch Volume 1. Translated by John Dryden with an Introduction by Clayton Miles Lehmann, edited by Arthur Hugh Clough. The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading, New York.
The Annals. The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, Tacitus. Translated by J.C, introduction and notes by Anthony A. Barrett. Yardley. Oxford World's Classics/Oxford University Press.