Episodes
Saturday Nov 25, 2017
S1 Round II
Saturday Nov 25, 2017
Saturday Nov 25, 2017
Second of the knockout round. This week, Valentian and his bears v Otho and his toupee v Caligula and his crazy v Julianus and his fear.
Also: we look at Opprobrium Crazium: who were the sanest and the craziest emperors?
Saturday Nov 18, 2017
S1 Round I
Saturday Nov 18, 2017
Saturday Nov 18, 2017
The first of the knockout rounds is here! Who will go through to the semi finals? Theodosius, Valerian, Thrax or Caracalla?
Also: Who were the bottom three in Fightius Maximus? And who were the top 5?
Saturday Nov 11, 2017
85 Augustulus
Saturday Nov 11, 2017
Saturday Nov 11, 2017
This is the end - my only friend - the end. Orestes has a plan to start a new golden age. It involves his son being the emperor, plus about a thousand problems magically going away.
Spoiler warning: he fails. But find out how!
Also: We figure out when the West was doomed to fail, plus whose fault it was!
Also: find out who would the public vote for the spare Je Na Caesar place.
And finally: we draw the rounds for the epic battle that will start next week!
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
84 Nepos
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
Ok, seriously, someone needs to step up. Who can sort this mess out? What about the son of Majorians general, the nephew of one of the best generals of the age, the nephew of Leo, supported by Zeno and the east, a man with links to Syagrius and the Friendly Franks, a man who has been running Dalmatia very well for the last couple of years. He sounds good!
Time for him to stand in the surf and demand the tide retreat...
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
83 Glycerius
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
Ricimer is dead, the man behind the throne for the last two decades. Rome needs someone to fill his shoes, someone as cunning, as ruthless, as capable. Instead it was stuck with Glycerius. Oh well...