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• Why America Is The New Roman Republic

  Audio-only. Video is available on YouTube. Sources: Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution (1963) Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism (1995) Hamilton, Alexander; Madison, James; Jay, John. The Federalist Papers (1788) Polybius. The Histories (c. 2nd century BC) Ricks, Thomas. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country (2020) Tacitus. Agricola and Germania (Penguin Classics, 2010) Founders Online (Correspondence and Other Writings of Seven Major Shapers of the United States

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• Why Did Gladiators Willingly Fight In The Colosseum?

  Audio-only. Video is available on YouTube. Sources: Beard, Mary & Hopkins, Keith. The Colosseum (2011) Futrell, Alison. The Roman Games: Historical Sources in Translation (2008) Futrell, Alison & Scanlon, Thomas. The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (2021) Jacobelli, Luciana. Gladiators at Pompeii (2003) Mellor, Ronald. The Historians of Ancient Rome (1997) Wiedemann, Thomas. Emperors and Gladiators (1992)

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• Before You Watch Gladiator II—Here's the Real History

  When I have issues with historians, I ask: "Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the fuck up then." Sources: Beard, Mary. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (2016) Brauer, George C. The Young Emperors, Rome, A.D. 193-244 (1967) Dio, Cassius. Roman History, Book 79 (3rd century) Dunstan, William E. Ancient Rome (2010) Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I (1776) Goldsworthy, Adrian. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (2010) Hekster, Olivier. Rome and its Empire, AD 193-284 (Debates and Documents in Ancient History) (2008) Herodian. History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus (3rd century) Spartianus, Aelius, et al. Historia Augusta (3rd century) Swan, Peter Michael. The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History, Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14) (2004)

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• Why Guys Should Think About The NEW Roman Empire

  MUSIC: 'Shadows and Dust' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'The Distant Sun' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Remaining tracks sourced from Epidemic Sound & Motion Array. SOURCES: Brownworth, Lars. Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (2009) Heather, Peter. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (2005) Kaldellis, Anthony. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (2023) Kaldellis, Anthony. Siniossoglou, Niketas. The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium (2017) Mango, Cyril. The Oxford History of Byzantium (2002) Runciman, Steven. Gibbon and Byzantium (1976) Shepard, Jonathan. The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire (2009) HUGE thanks to my first patrons: Rho Chi, Karla Mainayara, Keinkrieg, Quinton Harris, Thomas McKeane, travis sutherland, Johan Gumesson, Colin Williams, Samwise Gamgee, Oliver Holtz, and Uldis. Your support means the world! GUEST STARRING (go check out their youtube channels!): -The Histories -Know History -Romaboo Ramblings

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• The Bloodless Crusade: Life & Times of Frederick II

  The second part in a trilogy about the life & times of Frederick II, the Hohenstaufen Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Sources: Alighieri, Dante. Divine Comedy: Inferno & Paradiso (1321) Casady, Richard. The Emperor and the Saint: Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Francis of Assisi, and Journeys to Medieval Places (2011) Haskins, Charles H. "Science at the Court of the Emperor Frederick II" (1922) Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886) Paris, Matthew. Translated by Richard Vaughan. The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Observations of Thirteenth-Century Life (1993) Radke, Gary M. "The Palaces of Frederick II" (1994) Salimbene. Translated by G. Coulton. Chronicle of Sambiene, thirteenth-century Italian Franciscan Van Cleve, Thomas Curtis. The Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Immutator Mundi (1972) Walsh, James J. "The Earliest Modern Law for the Regulation of the Practice of Medicine" (1935) Wilson, Peter H. Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire (2016) Frederick II of Hohenstaufen : a life (Masson Georgina) Music: 'Age of Wonder' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Remaining tracks sourced from Storyblocks & Epidemic Sound HUGE thanks to my patrons: Rho Chi, Karla Mainayara, Keinkrieg, Quinton Harris, Thomas McKeane, travis sutherland, Johan Gumesson, Colin Williams, Samwise Gamgee, Oliver Holtz, and Uldis. Your support means the world!

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