47 Carus

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Carus may well have done some shocking things; electrified the people of Rome with his lightning speed and thunderous voice. He may have seen the storm clouds brewing over Persia and decided it was time to show some Shock and Awe. He may have bolted out of Antioch and with javelins and forks ready to strike. But unfortunately, we don't know. Our sources have dried up a bit... But at least we know how he died! (sort of).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rangium. This week, Karras!
0:13.0	Karras! Hello and welcome to Roman Empress to Talus Rankium.
0:26.6	I am Janey.
0:27.6	And I'm Rob, ranking all of the emperts from Augustus to Augustus 47.
0:32.6	Woo!
0:33.6	Carus.
0:34.6	We're hitting the Big 50 soon.
0:35.6	We will be hitting the Big 50 soon. Oh. Exciting. Next week? No. A week after? Oh, Diocletian's going to be number 50. Oh, that's nice. A nice round number for him. Which gives you a big clue that we only have three more emperors in the crisis. Ah. Yeah. We are about to come out of the crisis. We have one insanely short-lived dynasty to get through. Okay. Is this it? Yes. We need to get through Karras and his two sons. Okay. Venus and Numerian. I've heard of Numerian. I've heard the word, not this one.
1:11.6	I doubt very much this one.
1:13.6	No, yeah.
1:14.6	It's three very short emperors.
1:16.6	Okay.
1:17.6	In a plate or?
1:18.6	Well, possibly.
1:19.6	And then we hit Diocletian and the Tetraki, which is my favourite period of all of Rome history, I think.
1:27.6	Oh yeah, the Tetraarchy.
1:29.5	Yeah, we go over it. We will.
1:31.5	Yeah.
1:31.9	We will.
1:32.5	But you will also be devastated to hear, and I am devastated to report,
1:38.2	we are on the last chapter of the Historia Augusta.
1:42.4	As in the very last no more?
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