29 Gordian I

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Here we are at last! The Mighty Gordian I. The name that resonates around the world. He was the ruler of Rome for longer than you have been reading this synopsis and changed the course of, if not history, then at least his own life. Battles were fought, revolts led and blood shed (not that he was there). If you dont know about Gordian I, it's time you found out!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalus Rankion.
0:26.9	I am Jamie.
0:27.5	And I'm Rob ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustus.
0:31.4	Episode 29, Gordian 1.
0:34.7	Gordian 1, yeah.
0:35.8	Yeah.
0:36.4	Did you know anything about Gordian? I know they don't last very long, or he doesn't last very long. No, he doesn't. I mentioned an uprising in Africa last week, didn't I? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, very briefly. Yeah. That's them. Oh, okay. We're going to go into... Because they want to declare...
0:54.3	Were they senators as well?
0:55.6	We're going to that.
0:56.5	All right.
0:56.8	We will.
0:57.7	What I didn't mention, I don't think I did.
1:01.4	Correct me if I'm wrong.
1:02.8	I think I got too excited by the start of the crisis.
1:06.8	I forgot to mention, it's actually also the start of the year of the six emperors. Oh, okay. Did I mention that? No. No, you got the year of the four emperors, then you got the year of the five sort of actually three emperors. And then you've got the year of the six emperors. Brilliant, so an average of two months. Yeah, and this one you do actually have six emperors. We will cover all six of them. Oh, fantastic.
1:28.3	We already covered Thrax.
1:30.3	Yep.
1:31.3	And today we're going to cover in two separate episodes released this weekend, Gordian 1 and Gordion 2.
1:37.3	Yes. Yes.
1:38.3	You've already heard of the third one, no, the fourth one, but you don't know who it is yet, and there are two that
1:44.4	you don't know about. Okay. Okay. Yes. Right. Before we start, also, in the Historia
1:51.4	Augusta, you're frantically looking for your notes trying to figure out who that is, aren't
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