Episodes

  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 78: Boethius

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 78: Boethius
    Sep 14 2025
    Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was a polymath philosopher and scion of one of Rome's most ancient families. Along with his father in law Symmachus, he was one of the Senate's last lions, and one of the last keepers of the flame that was Rome in the West! Seeking higher purpose, he served in Theodoric's court, and would finish his life a prisoner in a lonely tower, in which he wrote a gift to the world, the Consolation of Philosophy.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 77: Theodoric the Great

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 77: Theodoric the Great
    Aug 31 2025
    A Goth prince raised in the Imperial Palace in Constantinople, Theodoric the Amal consolidated control of the Ostrogoths, and then journeyed west at the behest of the Emperor Zeno to punish Odoacer, and to rule Italy in the Emperor's name. Ruling from the palace in Ravenna, he would rule well, and audaciously, attempting to resurrect the Empire of the West.
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 76: Thessalonica [Lost Roman Cities]

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 76: Thessalonica [Lost Roman Cities]
    Aug 17 2025
    A LOST ROMAN CITIES special episode on Roman Thessalonica. Founded by Cassander, named after the younger sister of Alexander the Great, this city would go on to become the second city of the Roman Empire, and just perhaps, after the city of Rome herself, the longest held of Rome's possessions. What we can say for certain, is that without Roman Thessalonica (Greek Thessaloniki), Rome's history would look very different indeed.
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 75: Anastasius

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 75: Anastasius
    Aug 3 2025
    Anastasius Dicorus - a finance dude - saw a wildly complex world very clearly through one blue eye and one black, steering the empire through perilous years after the Fall of the West. When the finance dude died an ancient man he had earned Rome's thanks, leaving behind a stable government and full coffers.
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 74: Zeno

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 74: Zeno
    Jul 20 2025
    Called down from the mountainous badlands of Isauria to Constantinople by the Emperor Leo, Tarasis son of Kodissa, later known as Zeno, would have to preserve the independence of the emperors of the East. Later he would serve as one of those emperors, and as the West fell, he would be challenged to chart a path for the East, so it would not share the same fate.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 73: Ambrosius Aurelianus

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 73: Ambrosius Aurelianus
    Jul 6 2025
    Emperor Honorius told Britannia to see to its own defenses and the darkness fell on the island. With the Picts and Saxons overrunning Rome's forgotten province, one man, whose name would become inextricably linked with Arthurian lore, stood against the barbarian tide to protect what was left of Roman Britannia: Ambrosius Aurelianus.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 72 : Leo the Butcher

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 72 : Leo the Butcher
    Jun 22 2025
    Born of humble stock, elevated to the purple to be a puppet of Aspar, the barbarian power behind the Eastern Empire's throne, Leo had other thoughts in mind. He had watched as other barbarian strongmen had brought the Western Empire to the brink of extinction, and he was determined that the East would not suffer the same fate. But how could you counter the men who controlled the army and the purse strings to save the Roman state?
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 71: Aegidius & Syagrius

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 71: Aegidius & Syagrius
    Jun 8 2025
    Aegidius and Syagrius, father and son warriors, born of an ancient Roman-Gaul senatorial lineage, would keep the dream of Rome alive in Gaul long after the Western Empire fell. In the baddest of bad neighborhoods, for three decades they reminded the world what Rome stood for, with no help from an emperor in Ravenna or Constantinople. It wasn't about fame for these two, it was about principle! Prepare to be blown away....
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    1 hr and 40 mins