The Origins of Rome
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Known as the Eternal City, ancient Rome was one of the greatest civilisations in human history, but how did it come about?
With a turbulent history of Kings, civil wars and imperial desires - Rome has an incredible history. But who founded it? Were Romulus and Remus real brothers fighting for their kingdoms, or did a Trojan hero found one of the mightiest Italian states? Recent archaeological discoveries indicate a far more complicated picture of Rome's beginnings - but where does its mystic past fall into this new story?
In this episode Tristan is joined by Professor Guy Bradley from Cardiff University to discover more about the origins of Rome around the 8th century B.C.
TW: This episode contains a reference to rape
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| 0:00.0 | It's the entrance on History Hit. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Tristan Hughes, your host and in today's podcast where we're going back to the beginnings |
| 0:16.9 | of Ancient Rome. |
| 0:18.2 | We're talking all about the origins of Rome, looking at the archaeology and also the literature |
| 0:23.4 | that refers to Rome's beginnings. |
| 0:25.6 | The Romans believed, so names such as Romulus, Anius, and then we're going to be going |
| 0:31.3 | a bit later on and talking about a few of the kings as well. |
| 0:36.2 | But alongside that, we're also going to be looking at what the most recent archaeology |
| 0:41.5 | is revealing about this distant time in Rome's history. |
| 0:46.0 | And it's really exciting at the moment because of some brand new discoveries, particularly |
| 0:50.8 | surrounding the mythical figure of Romulus. |
| 0:53.8 | Did he exist? |
| 0:54.8 | Did he not? |
| 0:55.8 | Well, there is some archaeology which seems to be now shining some more lights on that. |
| 0:59.6 | As our guest today will explain in this episode, our guest is none other than Professor Guy |
| 1:05.4 | Brasley from the University of Cardiff. |
| 1:08.1 | I headed over to Guy's office a couple of weeks back to interview him all about the origins |
| 1:12.6 | of Rome. |
| 1:13.6 | It was a great chat and here is the finished episode. |
| 1:18.2 | So that further ado, to talk all about the origins of Rome, here's Guy. |
| 1:24.1 | It is great to have you on the podcast today. |
| 1:26.4 | Lovely, it's great to be here and thanks very much for coming down to Cardiff to talk |
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