Are they're podcast listeners a quick notice. To celebrate the 10th year of the Emperor's of Rome,

we will be holding a live podcast and special screening of the hit movie Gladiator.

It's on Saturday 19th of October at 4.30 PM at the Thornbury Picture House in Melbourne.

Tickets are on sale now on their website and at the time of recording this, there are only four seats left,

so getting quick. There's a link in the podcast notes. We hope to see you there.

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

I'm your host Matt Smith, and with me today is Associate Professor Kaylin Davenport, head of the Center for Classical Studies at the

Australian National University.

This is episode C.C.X.X.

Emperor Tacitus.

That's right, we now return to the late third century,

where the Emperor Aurelian has finally reunited the Roman Empire

and been murdered for his trouble and the Senate in Rome

waning in its influence makes a final flex of power. Here's Caitlin Davenport.

We've just had the death of Emperor Aurelian, the man who reunited the Roman Empire

from its three fractured parts, and at the time he was possibly leading an army towards confronting the

Sassanids and while in Thrace and this is only one of the possibilities

he was killed by a high-ranking official or high-ranking officials who were concerned

that they'd been implicated in corruption.

And I think the Historia Augusta pointed out that there was a death list that had been discovered

that's right a la demission you know exactly goes of demissions death yes no I was

already I was going to point out that the mission parallel but

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