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Real Roman History, 100 episodes.

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Episode 100. Special Centennial Episode: What Rome Laughed At, 254 to 184 BCE

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Episode 99. Nerva, Part Two: The Adoption of Trajan and the Founding of the Adoptive Succession

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Episode 98. Nerva, Part One: The Restoration and Its Limits

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Episode 97. Agricola and the British Frontier

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Episode 96. Domitian, Part Two: The Terror and the Tacitean Response

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Episode 95. Domitian, Part One: The Administrator and the Builder

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Episode 94. Titus

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Episode 93. The Circus, the Factions, and the Politics of Spectacle

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Episode 92. Gladiators and the Colosseum

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Episode 91. Pompeii and Herculaneum: The Preserved Cities

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Episode 90. The Eruption of Vesuvius

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Episode 89. Vespasian's Reign

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Episode 88. Josephus

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Episode 87. The Destruction of Jerusalem

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Episode 86. Vespasian and the Flavian Establishment

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Episode 85. The Civilis Revolt

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Episode 84. Year of Four Emperors, Part Two: Vitellius and Vespasian

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Episode 83. Year of Four Emperors, Part One: Galba and Otho

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Episode 82. A Tour of the Empire, c. 68 CE

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Episode 81. The Jewish War and the Making of Vespasian

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Episode 80. Agrippina the Younger: Mother of an Emperor

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Episode 79. Seneca: The Philosopher in the Palace

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Episode 78. Nero, Part Three: Fire, Conspiracy, Fall

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Episode 77. The Origins of Christianity

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Episode 76. Roman Judaea: From the Covenant to Direct Rule

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Episode 75. Nero, Part Two: From the Matricide to the Great Fire

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Episode 74. Boudicca and the British Revolt

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Episode 73. Nero, Part One: The Quinquennium

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Episode 72. Britain: The Province at the Edge of the World

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Episode 71. Claudius: The Emperor Behind the Curtain

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Episode 70. Caligula: The Principate Without Restraint

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Episode 69. Tiberius, Part Three: The Final Years

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Episode 68. Tiberius, Part Two: The Years of Sejanus

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Episode 67. The Praetorian Guard: The Sword Behind the Throne

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Episode 66. Germanicus: The Prince Who Was Not Allowed to Win

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Episode 65. Tiberius, Part One: The Reluctant Successor

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Episode 64. The Roman Army Under the Principate

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Episode 63. Livia, Part Two: Julia Augusta

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Episode 62. Livia, Part One: The Emperor's Wife

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Episode 61. Arminius: The Roman Who Turned

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Episode 60. Augustus, Part Four: Teutoburg, Tiberius, and the Question of Legacy

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Episode 59. Augustus, Part Three: The Succession Unmade

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Episode 58. Augustus, Part Two: The Succession He Could Not Arrange

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Episode 57. Augustus, Part One: The Man Who Would Not Be King

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Episode 56. The Gods of Rome: Religion, Ritual, and the World Augustus Inherited

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Episode 55. Actium: The End of the Republic and the Hellenistic World

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Episode 54. The New Dionysus: Antony, Cleopatra, and the Eastern World

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Episode 53. The Road to Philippi: Antony, Octavian, and the End of the Liberators

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Episode 52. The Dictatorship and the Ides: Caesar Against the Republic, Part Four

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Episode 51. Marcus Junius Brutus: The Last Republican

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Episode 50. From Zela to Munda: Caesar Against the Republic, Part Three

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Episode 49. Pharsalus and Its Aftermath: Caesar Against the Republic, Part Two

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Episode 48. The Rubicon and the Lightning Campaign: Caesar Against the Republic, Part One

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Episode 47. The Gallic Wars, Part Two: Vercingetorix and the Great Revolt

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Episode 46. The Gallic Wars, Part One: Conquest Begins

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Episode 45. Julius Caesar: The Man and the Road to Power

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Episode 44. Cato the Younger: The Man Caesar Could Not Reach

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Episode 43. Cicero and the Republic in Crisis: The Man Who Understood Everything and Could Not Stop Anything

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Episode 42. Pompey the Great, Part Two: The World in His Hands

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Episode 41. Pompey the Great, Part One: Outside Every Precedent

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Episode 40. Lucullus and the Eastern Wars: The General Who Won Everything and Lost His Command

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Episode 39. Carrhae and Parthia: Rome Meets Its Match in the East

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Episode 38. Crassus: Wealth, Power, and the Hunger for Glory

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Episode 37. Spartacus: The Slave War and What It Revealed

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Episode 36. Sertorius: The Republic in Exile

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Trailer/Preview

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Episode 35. Sulla, Part Three: Dictatorship, Reform, and the Resignation

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Episode 34. Sulla, Part Two: The First March and Mithridates

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Episode 33. The Cinnan Republic: Rome Without Sulla

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Episode 32. Marius, Part Three: The Terrible Old Man

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Episode 31. The Social War: Italy Demands What Rome Owes It

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Episode 30. Sulla, Part One: The Man

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Episode 29. Marius, Part Two: The Savior of Rome

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Episode 28. Marius, Part One: The Outsider

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Episode 27. The Jugurthine War: Corruption, the Outsider, and the New Army

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Episode 26. Gaius Gracchus: Revolution and Reaction

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Episode 25. Tiberius Gracchus: Reform and the Precedent of Murder

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Episode 24. The Price of Empire: The Education of Tiberius Gracchus

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Episode 23. Carthage Must Be Destroyed

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Episode 22. Cato the Elder: The Soul of the Old Republic

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Episode 21. Rome and the Greek East

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Episode 20. After Zama

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Episode 19. Scipio Africanus: The Turn of the War

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Episode 18. Italy on Fire: Trasimene, Fabius, and Cannae

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Episode 17. Hannibal: The Man and the March

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Episode 16. Hamilcar Barca and the Spanish Empire

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Episode 15. The First Punic War: Rome Goes to Sea

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Episode 14. Carthage: The Other Power

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Episode 13. Pyrrhus of Epirus: The King Who Won Himself to Death

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Episode 12. The Samnite Wars, Part Two: Sentinum and the Conquest of Italy

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Episode 11. The Samnite Wars, Part One: The Road to the Caudine Forks

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Episode 10. After the Fire: Rome Rebuilds and Rome Remembers

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Episode 9. Vae Victis: The Gallic Sack of Rome

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Episode 8. Virtue and Its Discontents: Coriolanus, Cincinnatus, and Camillus

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Episode 7. Rome and Its Neighbors, the World of the Early Republic

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Episode 6. The Struggle of the Orders, Part Two: Law in Bronze

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Episode 5. The Struggle of the Orders, Part One: City Divided

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Episode 4. The Fall of the Monarchy

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Episode 3. The Etruscan Kings

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Episode 2. The Latin and Sabine Kings