How an Empire Ends: Theodoric the Great and the Ostrogothic Kingdom
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! After 75 years under Hunnic dominion, the Ostrogoths seized their freedom and set about taking over control of the Western Roman Empire. T...
5 Jun 20251h 33min
How an Empire Ends: 75 Years Under Hunnic Dominion
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last episode, we talked about how the Visigoths came to be: forged in the fire of the Gothic War of 376-382 and the immigration cri...
22 Mai 20251h 4min
How an Empire Ends: the Starving Camps
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last few episodes, we’ve told you what we know about pre-Roman Gothic archaeology, culture, and history. We’ve told you about condi...
8 Mai 20251h 10min
How an Empire Ends: Rome's Gothic Immigrants
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last episode, we took a look at the outside forces driving the engine of the Migration Era: Hunnic migrations and invasions, consta...
24 Apr 20251h 7min
How an Empire Ends: The Migration Era
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! It was the beginning of the Migration Era where the Goths’ history with the Roman Empire begins. The Migration era was a cycle of wars and...
10 Apr 202553min
How an Empire Ends: Culture of the Goths
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last episode, we delved into the archaeology of the pre-Roman Goths. But what about Gothic culture? What do we know about pre-Roman...
27 Mar 20251h 42min
How an Empire Ends: Origin of the Goths
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! The Roman Empire stood for a thousand years. Many causes have been given for its downfall—but if just one group of people could be said to...
13 Mar 20251h 4min
Rebel Daughters of the Roman Empire (With Tana Rebellis)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In Enemy of My Dreams, Jenny based her heroine Julia partially on Julia the Elder—rebellious daughter of Augustus who got herself exiled t...
27 Feb 20251h 2min
