62 Julian

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2017

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Julian is one of the most beloved of the latter emperors by historians, but why? Find out what he did in Gual, how he misspelt ‘send’ as ‘burn’, what caused him to revolt, why did the people of Antioch hated his beard, and how he dealt with Shapur II. Does he live up to the hype? find out in this week’s Totalus Rankium!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Total Rangium.
0:27.1	I am Jamie.
0:29.7	Yes, you are.
0:31.1	And I'm Rob, and this is episode 62, Julian.
0:36.1	Yes, Julian.
0:37.7	Probably the campus emperor name we've had.
0:40.3	Julian?
0:41.1	Julian.
0:42.3	Yes.
0:43.4	It is.
0:43.9	I mean, for some ways, it seems different than Julius Caesar, doesn't it?
0:47.2	Julius and Julian, but his name was actually Julianus.
0:51.2	A bit better.
0:51.7	We'll get into that, shall we?
0:52.9	Let's just jump in.
1:12.6	Julian, he was born in May or June. So let's say May, let's say it's today. Yeah. Yeah, he was born today. 18th of May. It's a happy birthday to Julian. He is our first emperor born in Constantinople. Oh, I heard that gets big. It does get big. It's quite small at the moment, but it gets bigger as things do.
1:16.6	I'll just leave that innuendo lying there, and we'll move on.
1:21.6	His grandfather was Constantius 1.
1:24.6	Now if you remember, Constantius number 1, when he was younger, met the barmaid slash saint, Helena.
1:31.9	Do you just remember this stuff? Would you have them in your notes? It's here in my notes.
1:35.9	Okay. So you've got a great memory for stuff. And yeah, but a little... I vaguely remember it as well.
1:42.3	I have spent the week for searching it and like you. That's true. That does help. I've been busy. Yeah, well, I'm sure remember it as well. I have spent the week researching it and like it.
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