Episode CLXII - Anthology of Interest III

Emperors of Rome

La Trobe University

Roman Emire, Rhiannon Evans, Biography, Emperor, La Trobe University, Roman History, Julius Caesar, Rome, Caesar, Ancient History, History, Caillan Davenport, Roman Emperors

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Rhiannon Evans, Caillan Davenport, Gillian Shepherd and Matt Smith each share three items of Roman interest for three minutes! You will hear:

- Silius Italicus and his unbearable bunion
- Pomponius Mela and the wonders of the Nile
- Snarky soldiers at the Vindolanda fort
- Legacy hunters and the jewels of Matidia
- Unusual dedications to the gods
- Early sources for the great fire of Rome
- The effectiveness of Roman concrete
- How Rome dealt with mass burial of the poor
- Sea monsters
- Curse tablets and sporting fanatics
- Vedius Pollio throws a clumsy slave to the lamprey
- The rare instances of Romans sacrificing people

Guests:
Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Head of Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University)
Assoc. Professor Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Dr Gillian Shepherd (Director, Trendall Centre, La Trobe University)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Are they, and welcome to Emperor's of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University?
0:11.3	I'm your host, Matt Smith, and this is episode CLXII, Anthology of Interest III.
0:19.0	In this episode, I am joined by three guests, firstly, Associate Professor Rihanna Nevens,
0:24.4	who is the head of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at Latrobe University.
0:28.7	Secondly, Associate Professor Kaelin Davenport, he's a research fellow in Roman history at
0:34.0	Macquarie University and a humble research fellow at Gertha University in Frankfurt, Germany.
0:40.2	And finally, last but not least, Dr. Gillian Sheppard, Director of the Trendle Centre at Latrobe
0:45.5	University.
0:47.0	In this episode, we each present three items of Roman Interest for vaguely three minutes
0:52.2	each.
0:53.2	Recorded in front of a live Zoom audience on the 24th of March 2021, so please forgive
0:59.4	the dodgy Zoom sound quality and the slightly chaotic proceedings.
1:03.6	We begin with Rihanna Nevens.
1:06.2	Hello to everyone who's tuned in around the world.
1:08.2	Thank you for stopping by and spending the show with us today.
1:12.0	Who would like to get started?
1:13.4	Rihanna, did you say you've got something to do with suicide to give us a nice, cheery start?
1:18.2	Great beginning, I can do that, which is not quite as depressing as it sounds in some
1:23.6	ways.
1:24.6	I want to take you back to the year 101 CE to talk about a writer who, I'm not sure if
1:31.7	people will have heard of, Silias Italicus.
1:34.6	You wrote the longest poem in ancient Latin literature.
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