Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, Valerian.

Hello, I'm Jamie.

And I'm Rob ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustus, episode 39, Valerian.

Valerius, see, I've heard of him. Yeah, we're into the juicy stuff now.

Yay! Yes. We actually have some information. Well, we get the Historia Augusta back near the end of this episode. It cuts in right at the end where all the obviously made up stuff is. So it's not actually very useful. He could fly! Get a pet dragons. I'll go into it a bit more detail later, but it's just a bunch of letters that made up people have written to Sharpeau. That's all we've got. But we do have the drunken men back. Good. Yes. Which is always nice. Right. Okay. Word of warning to begin with. Dating is very hard in this period. and a lot of stuff happens and there are lots of theories

of the order of things happen.

Rather than me trying to explain every single one, I've just decided to go with something.

That order seems good to me.

I'm going to go for that.

But just bear in mind, some of these things might have happened in different orders, and it's a bit hard to tell.

So there isn't a definitive way.

It's just you just picked, you just selected a path.

Well, I did think we could have gone down hedging our bets, the academic route, weighing all the possible ways this could happen.

And then I realized, I'm not in uni.

I don't need to do that anymore.

I pick that one.

It's our podcast.

Let's do it this way.

But with that caveat that some things, if you go and read like a history book,

you might find some slightly different ways that this could have

played out, which I will highlight some of. That's all right. Yeah. Okay. If you're listening,

you disagree. Tough. Especially when I get to the bit with the dancing rhinos. What? It's just

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