Episode CX - Anthology of Interest

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The ultimate triumvirate! Three people present three Roman history topics each for three minutes. In this episode you will hear:
- The unfortunate demise of Cinna the poet
- Cicero's reluctance to send panthers to those in need
- The sensitive subject of baldness
- PTSD bought on by the Carthaginian War
- Women donning a toga
- Claudius' edicts and defending 'stupidity'
- The last of the Ptolemys
- The hazard of regifting the world's largest apple

Guests:
Dr Rhiannon Evans (Senior Lecturer, Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)
Dr Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Are they and welcome to Emperor of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.
0:11.2	I'm your host Matt Smith and today I'm joined by two guests.
0:15.6	Dr. R. Rianna Evans, senior lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Latrobe University,
0:20.9	and also Dr. Kalin Davenport, senior lecturer in Roman history at
0:25.6	Macquarie University. This is episode CX, anthology of interest. In this podcast, the three of us will discuss three Roman topics each for three minutes,
0:38.0	a triumvirant of sorts, if you will.
0:41.0	All right, so Rianen's going to start with her first one and go.
0:45.0	I thought you were going to ask me a question.
0:47.0	What's your first one, Rianen?
0:48.0	I thought for the first one we'd talk about, Sinner, the poet, who's kind of got left out of our death of Caesar podcast.
0:55.9	Sinah was somebody who was a victim of the aftermath of Caesar's assassination and he may or may not
1:02.0	have been a poet. Let me read you a brief extract from Plutarch, Life of Caesar 68.
1:08.0	When the Multitudes saw his body carried through the forum, this is Caesar's body, all disfigured with its wounds, they no longer kept themselves in the restraints of order and discipline.
1:17.0	There was a certain sinner, one of the friends of Caesar, when he heard they were burning the body of Caesar in the forum he rose up and went there out of respect.
1:25.0	At once word ran through the whole throng that this man was one of the murderers of Caesar.
1:29.0	For there was among the conspirators a man who bore the same name of Sinner assuming this was he
1:33.7	they rushed upon him and tore him in pieces it wasn't the same sinner there were
1:38.6	two men called sinner one of them was a conspirator one of them was a friend of
1:42.4	Caesar and it was the friend of Caesar who got torn to pieces.
1:45.6	Yeah, this is where it gets awkward with Roman common names, I suppose.
1:48.8	So they actually killed him because they thought he was that sinner.
1:52.4	They thought he was that sinner. They thought he was that sinner.
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