71 Honorius

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Widely regarded as one of the worst emperors in history. But why? What did he do that was so bad? And was it him, or his advisor Stilicho, or Olypius, or Jovius or Constantius? Or any of the others that were actually running things? Who knows? All Honorius knows is that he likes it in Ravenna with it's nice tall walls and deep swamps and hopfully the rest of the world will sort its self out. Best to ignore it. Best to play with his chickens.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium. I am Jamie.
0:27.9	And I'm Rob ranking all of the emperors from Augustus to Augustus.
0:31.7	And this is episode 71. It's Honorius.
0:35.4	Hey! Okay. Again, like his brother, Arcourius. Hey. Okay.
0:40.7	Again, like his brother, Arcadius.
0:42.7	You're so powerful on his name. Well, remembered, yeah.
0:43.6	Yeah.
0:44.4	I've not heard good things.
0:47.3	No.
0:48.1	You did mention in the last episode that sources might be slightly more biased
0:52.5	towards Honorese than his brother.
1:10.9	Possibly, maybe not. But I know, what did you say? You said last week a good phrase, the midden is hitting the fan. Yes, the windmill. The windmill, sorry. To describe the West at the moment. Yeah, we'll go through that, We will. See, I remembered. You did.
1:11.3	Well done.
1:12.1	I listened to the episode.
1:12.8	Good.
1:15.0	And it, you might be surprised to learn.
1:16.0	Going to be a long one.
1:14.1	Yeah, that confused me. Yeah. But we'll find out why. Because it's going to be a long one. Let's just jump straight in, shall we? So this is Honorius, who is the son of Theodosius and Flakilia, or Flassilia.
1:29.2	Again, still can't pronounce a name. who was the son of Theodosius and Flakilia or Flassilia.
1:31.7	Again, still can't pronounce a name.
1:32.6	Flassy.
1:34.0	Yeah, mummy.
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