Episode 59. Rome’s Financial Peak and Hidden Cracks (68–180 CE): From Nero to Marcus Aurelius
Send us Fan Mail Rome didn’t just conquer with legions. It conquered with cash flow, credibility, and contracts and then it quietly broke the very engine that paid for its golden age. We walk through ...
18 Aug 1h 49min
Episode 58. The Architect, the Steward, and the Showman — Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, and the Debasement That Started It All
Send us Fan Mail Nero is famous for fire and scandal, but his most lasting move is quieter: he changes the denarius. We follow the early Roman Empire from Augustus’s careful fiscal rebuild to the mome...
28 Jul 58min
Episode 57. Two Roman Stories: A Credit Crunch and Volcanic Explosion
Send us Fan Mail Rome didn’t just build roads and legions, it built a credit machine. And in 33 CE, that machine seized up in a way that feels painfully familiar: a property crash, a liquidity freeze,...
7 Jul 52min
Episode 56. Rome Becomes Powerful When Its Money Does
Send us Fan Mail Rome is not just marble temples and marching legions. It is benches in the Forum where money changers listen to coins ring, wax tablets that lock in loans, and quiet banking networks ...
16 Jun 45min
Episode 55. The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and Power
Send us Fan Mail Rome and Carthage don’t start as mortal enemies, they start as trading partners signing treaties that quietly reveal who holds real power at sea. From the very first agreement, Cartha...
26 Mai 1h 11min
Episode 54. From She Wolves To Silver Coins In Ancient Rome
Send us Fan Mail Rome doesn’t introduce itself with a feel-good origin story. We start with the myth Rome tells about itself, from Aeneas and divine ancestry to the she-wolf on the Palatine, and then ...
5 Mai 1h
Episode 53. When Philosophers Feared Money More Than War
Send us Fan Mail Coinage didn’t just make trade easier in ancient Greece, it reshaped the city itself. I walk through how money becomes a geographic force that pulls people toward marketplaces, builds...
14 Apr 40min
