Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 94: Mauricius (Part 2 - Apogee & Disaster)

In Part 2 of Mauricius' tale, the empire that he spent twenty years building begins to crack from within. We meet the generals he trusted, the ones he sidelined, and the ones he should never have appointed (like brother Petrus). We follow the Avars and the Slavs as they push the Balkans to the breaking point. And we watch as one man's iron discipline, the very quality that made him great , becomes the thing that destroys him. A fatal order. A mutiny. A centurion named Phocas. And an ending that even Gibbon of the severe and vicious tongue could barely bring himself to describe.