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than 60 episodes. And on that note, here's Emperors of Rome.

Are they, and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.

I'm your host Matt Smith, and with me today is Associate Professor Kaelin Davenport, head

of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University.

This is episode C-C-V-I-I, Odenaethus, King of Kings. As the Roman Empire lost the Western

provinces, something very different was happening in the east. Odenaethus remained on the side

of Rome, but assumed the title of King, building his influence throughout the region to the

point where he became a problem for Galleonus. Here's Kaelin Davenport.

So in the last two episodes of Emperors of Rome, we've talked about the start of Galleonus's

reign independently after the capture of his father, Valerian, and the splintering, the

division that meant there was a Galle campire as well. And the constant use of patience

that he's dealing with up and down the empire, it seems. What we're going to talk about

in this episode is something along the lines of that, but previously the Galle campire's

biggest success to it seems to be that it wasn't directly trying to challenge Rome for

imperial authority. And the eastern empire, what happens in the east, is almost along the

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