Welcome to Totalis Rankiumion podcast. This is Jamie and we are on episode number seven.

Episode seven of 80 something. Yes, we are doing Galba this week. Galba, yeah. Galba. So he was this old guy, wasn't he? He was sort of, he was a bit from what we've done last week after Nero, a bit hesitant. You see it appeared hesitant anyway, because they wanted him to become the emperor. Yes, well remembered from last week. Yeah, I didn't even look on my notes. Did you not? No, I listened to the last podcast. Oh, very recently. Okay. I listened to it, Ron.

Yeah. Well remembered from last week. Yeah, I didn't even look on my notes. Did you not? No, I listened to the last podcast fairly recently. Okay, I listened to it, Rob. Yeah, you're learning. You're learning. Learning. Yes, this is the start of what is called the Year of the Four Emperts. Ooh, that sounds, I'm guessing it doesn't last very long then. There's four of them in a year.

Yeah. Tempo completer is not going to be good for a while. That's all right.

It's not right. But maybe they do well in other realms. Right, Tacitus wrote the history is all about this year. This is a series of text he wrote all about the year of the Four

Emperors. So I'm going to let him

sum it up to the game with. I'm entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful

in its wars, torn by civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors. Four emperors perished

by the sword. There were three civil wars, there were more

with foreign enemies. There were often wars that had both characters at once. Slaves were bribed

to turn against their masters and freedmen to betray their patrons and those who had not an enemy

were destroyed by friends. Now my comprehension skills aren't that good, but that sounds like a really nice, peaceful calm year.

Yeah, yeah, it was. Not much happens. No, not much happens at all.

Pretty static. Yeah, it's...

Lots of stuff goes off.

Good. Now, I had a decision to make how to approach the Four Emperors,

because there's different things going on at the same time in different places.

How I've come across the story usually is chronologically. So you find out who's doing what in order of time.

That makes sense, doesn't it? But we're doing it by Emperor. So what I've decided to do...

Are the overlaps then?

Yes, the next few episodes are going to overlap quite a lot.

And I'm going to try and do each episode from that Emperor's point of view.

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