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Re:The Lavish Roman Banquet: A Calculated Display Of Debauch... by euroclydon on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:50AM (#19971301)
For anyone interested, may I recommend the History or Rome podcast. At over 150 episodes, each running roughly 25 minutes, the listener is taken from the city's founding by Romulus to the end of the empire at the hands of the Germans.

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com

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Re:The Lavish Roman Banquet: A Calculated Display Of Debauch... by greesil on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:45PM (#19972605)
As a listener to this podcast, I have to say that your characterization of end of the empire "at the hands of the Germans" is a just bit of an oversimplification.
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Re:The Lavish Roman Banquet: A Calculated Display Of Debauch... by Balgair on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:02PM (#19976025)
Yeah, THoR really drives home the point that 'Rome' was many things at many times. The thesis one can take away from Rome is that there never was any thesis, Rome was just really insanely lucky.
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Re:The Lavish Roman Banquet: A Calculated Display Of Debauch... by euroclydon on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:54PM (#19976742)
I'm sure. I'm not even half way through. I was just trying to come up with a single sentence that would coax some people into subscribing.
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Re:The Lavish Roman Banquet: A Calculated Display Of Debauch... by irrational on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:06PM (#19975613)
That link doesn't appear to link to the history of rome podcast anymore. I think this is the current link:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id...

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