Bonus XXI- In Other News: The First Emperor of Japan
The reign of Tullus Hostilius includes the year 660 BCE- the same year that, half a world away in Japan, a certain individual named Iwarehiko no mikoto, descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu, invad...
24 Kesä 7min
108- Triplets Fighting Triplets
War has come between Rome and Alba Longa, but in a bid to avoid both powers battering themselves into the dust before being swept aside by the Etruscans, they settle it via single combat. Well... more...
21 Kesä 19min
107- The War Hero's Grandson
With Numa gone, we now see the election of Tullus Hostilius- the grandson of Sabine war hero Hostius Hostilius- to the Roman throne. He is a lot more belligerent than old Pompilius ever was, and immed...
24 Touko 7min
Edict- Two Co-Regents
The empire has a Princess Imperial as of 2026, but we do not have a formal regent established. Well, this episode sets up two of them...
20 Touko 2min
106- Numa and the Nymph
The second king of Rome may be dead, but his story isn't quite. Today, we scrape together the crumbs of evidence our primary and secondary sources give us concerning Egeria. Is she a nymph? A goddess?...
17 Touko 7min
105- Religious Reshuffle
Numa Pompilius' rule is a lot less exciting than that of Romulus in terms of warfare. Instead, we get a whole lot of religious restructuring, instilling piety into the rabble that is Roman society, an...
10 Touko 17min
104- An Interregnum and a Divine Acclamation
Between 716 and 715 BCE, Rome undergoes what becomes known as an interregnum- an inter regnum, or period between kings. Senators take five-day turns ruling the country, and then one year into it, Numa...
12 Huhti 10min
