I have got another podcast on Ancient Rome for you today and particularly this one is

going to be focusing on the Pax Romana and Imperial Rome.

That's right, we are talking big ancient history topic time because this podcast is going

to address some of the huge questions surrounding Imperial Rome.

Why did the Roman Empire last so long?

What were the keys to its success?

Why were its soldiers so effective and so much more?

Our hosting today's podcast is The One, the only Dan Snow and his guest is the brilliant

Roman historian Adrian Goldsworthy who has also written extensively about the Pax Romana.

This was a brilliant chat and I've no doubt that you are going to absolutely love it.

Enjoy.

Where should we even start?

I mean, okay, well let's start.

Where is your book start?

My books start actually talking about my own life and the sense that I've grown up in

peacetime because my parents were of the generation.

They were a little bit older than average.

My father had been apprentice in the Merchant Navy during Second World War.

My mother remembered the blitz in Cardiff.

They talked about the war and I was obviously born after the war and there's a sense that

it's been a life of peace and yet every year of my life, someone in Prince Armed Forces

has been killed.

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