76 Marcian
Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium
Rob and Jamie
4.9 • 742 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, Marcian. |
| 0:14.0 | Mawaresian. Hello and welcome to Roman emperors to tell us Rankium. |
| 0:26.8 | I am Jamie. |
| 0:27.7 | And I'm Rob ranking all of the emperors from Augustus to Augustulus, and we're now on episode 76. |
| 0:33.5 | Ooh, Marcian. |
| 0:35.5 | He's not an emperor I've heard much about. But to be fair, a lot of the last ones are. He's not an emperor many people have heard much about. Okay. Including the primary sources, apparently. Oh. And the secondary sources. Oh dear. And modern historians. Is he more of a footnoty kind of emperor? Well, it's really weird. There I am, reading all my books and reading all the sources I can get my hands on. |
| 0:58.8 | And I think everyone got very excited about Attila. |
| 1:02.4 | And then Attila dies. |
| 1:04.9 | And then everyone goes, oh, and then stuff happened for a bit. |
| 1:08.5 | And then Leo comes along, who, spoiler, is the next emperor. |
| 1:11.8 | And no one's got anything to say about Marcia at all. |
| 1:14.3 | But I've managed to piece some bits together. |
| 1:15.8 | Okay. |
| 1:16.5 | So here we go. |
| 1:17.8 | But before we start, let's just address the fact that this is the last episode |
| 1:23.5 | that we are doing in season one where we're in the East. |
| 1:28.3 | Oh. Yes, we are going to leave. |
| 1:30.3 | I have a moment's silence for a moment. |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:42.3 | We're going to be leaving Constantinople and the rulers of Constantinople after Marcian. |
| 1:47.0 | Okay. |
| 1:48.0 | But why? |
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