Most of us carry around the Hollywood Spartacus, the hero in chains defying an empire, and I get why that image sticks. What kept pulling at me in this episode was what Rome did after it won. The revolt that began in 73 BC ended with six thousand men on crosses along...
Jeremy Boreing had me on Weds Live Episode 57 of The Jeremy Boreing Show alongside Spencer Klavan and Stephen Ken, a wide-ranging panel on whether the West can survive. We got into China buying gold at a record pace, whether the West still knows how to build...
We usually give Caesar the credit for breaking Rome, with the genius dictator and the daggers on the Ides of March, as if one man’s ambition brought down a five-hundred-year-old system. I’ve come to think the break happened fifty years earlier, under...
John Rondi had me on The John Rondi Show for a conversation that ran almost three hours. We started in 753 BC with Romulus and Remus and the founding of the city, walked through Alexander, the Punic Wars, the Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, Caesar, Augustus, Nero, and the...
The war that came closest to killing Rome in this period was fought against men who had marched under Roman standards for generations and whom Rome still refused to call Romans. The usual picture of Rome falling has barbarian hordes at the gates, a civilization beaten...
This one is a departure for the channel, and I want to say so up front. Most of what I put out on Hidden Forces in History is researched history, and this episode is an alternate-history thought experiment, a counterfactual that a YouTube subscriber, history1099, gave...
