Episode CXCV - Q and A VIII

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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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

For the eighth time, listeners provide questions and Rhiannon and Matt answer! In this episode:

- Was Antony rehabilitated?

- Did Classical Latin have regional dialects?

- How did Romans celebrate their birthday?

- Who was the first true Roman emperor?

- How much of the Roman Empire remains in the modern world?

- What were some of the Roman’s most notable superstitions?

- Did a Roman soldier get time off?

- When did it become customary for Romans to learn Greek?

- Did Rome have a foodie culture?

Guest: Dr Rhiannon Evans (Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at La Trobe University).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Are they, and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.
0:11.3	I'm your host Matt Smith, and with me today is Dr. Rianne Evans, Associate Professor
0:16.3	in Classics and Ancient History at Latrobe University.
0:20.4	This is episode CXCV, Q and A, V, I, I, I, I, I have lost track, we're up to eight.
0:29.2	Is it that many?
0:30.7	In which you, the listeners, ask questions on Roman history topics, and we provide the answers.
0:36.2	Let me just confirm that.
0:38.2	Err, er, yes.
0:41.2	Confirmed, this is Q and A, V, I, I, I.
0:44.2	There we go.
0:45.2	Hello, Rianne.
0:46.2	Hey, Matt, I feel like I'm losing sense of the, all sense of past.
0:49.2	Can you realize we've done the second?
0:51.2	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:52.2	Well, we're getting near episode CC.
0:54.2	So there we go.
0:55.2	We have been doing it for a while.
0:58.1	So about a week or so ago, we put out the call for Roman-related questions for a good
1:02.6	old Q and A episode, and you, the lovely listeners, have provided.
1:07.7	So we've got a list.
1:09.0	Shall we power through?
1:10.0	Hmm.
	...

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