Ludi Apollinares

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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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Plague getting your people down? Suffering from a mysterious ailment? Perhaps a festival of Apollo is what you need. A simple festival with games, plays and feastings could be enough to sway Apollo in your favour. Or at least, distract your city for a while.

Episode CCXLIV (244)

Guest:
Assoc. Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classic and Ancient History, La Trobe University)

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0:00.0	Is it Ludi Apollinaris?
0:02.0	It is.
0:03.0	Apollinarase.
0:04.0	Apollinarase.
0:05.0	You're Ludi Apollinaris, Riannon.
0:08.0	Yeah, we're going to have a great time with Apollo.
0:10.0	You knew that was coming.
0:12.0	Surely by this point you knew that was coming.
0:14.0	All right. Come in and know me better.
0:16.0	Not for this one.
0:18.0	You knew that was coming though as well.
0:20.0	All right, that's only really good. Not for this one. You knew that was coming though as well.
0:22.8	All right, that's sound really good.
0:24.1	Let's get this podcast going.
0:24.4	Yay!
0:26.9	Starting to feel sorry we're doing festival.
0:29.7	Way too late for that.
0:30.6	Way too late for that.
0:40.3	Arve and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from La Trobe University. I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Rihanna Nevins, Associate Professor in Classics
0:45.4	and Ancient History at La Trobe University.
0:48.4	This is episode CCXLIV, Ludi Apollinaris.
0:57.7	Suffering from a mysterious ailment, play getting your people down?
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