30 Gordian II

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Gordian II. The Gordians Strike Back. And die. Horribly. Not much can be said about Gordian II apart from the fact that he is the shortest riegning emperor. He also liked to read, often to all those young ladies that were hanging around all the time... Find out how his ragtag band of merry men faired agaisnt the might of the Empire.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalus Rankium.
0:26.6	I'm Jamie.
0:27.2	And I'm Rob.
0:28.2	Ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustus, this is episode 30.
0:32.9	Oh!
0:34.2	Yay!
0:35.0	And we are doing Gordian 2.
0:45.8	This time it's shorter. Yes. It is. It's so is. Yes. Yeah. So here we are on the third emperor.
0:56.9	The year of six emperors. The year of the six emperors. And yeah, it's the son of Gordian 1. And we already have covered his entire period of being the emperor twice now,
1:00.7	once through the eyes of Maximinus, and once through the eyes of his father.
1:05.3	So were they living at the time that he was, Thrax was still alive?
1:06.1	Yes.
1:08.2	Remember, Thrax is in his tent.
1:08.8	Yes.
1:29.1	He hears news that there's an uprising in Africa. Yeah. And then a couple of weeks later, he hears news that there's no longer an uprising in Africa. That's it. From Thrax's point of view, that is all done and sorted before you even need to think about. Fair enough. Yeah. This is a blip in the world of Maximinus. He does not care. The only reason why we include Gordian 1 and Gordian 2 is because Gordian 3 becomes the emperor and says,
1:36.7	yes, they were legitimate. Ah. Yes. Otherwise, these would just be kind of usurpers that weren't. But
1:43.1	they're also recognised by the Senate as well, which is important.
1:46.1	Yes, we agree with that, anyway.
1:47.4	So they do count as emperors, but only just.
1:51.7	Right, okay.
1:53.7	Let's go into his life.
1:55.1	Born in around 192.
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