Vigilante teen is a good teen.

I forgot; who is running for president in 2016?

I don’t want to get lost in the gray replies below, but Trump is most comparable to an Athenian politician named Cleon who took power during the Peloponnesian War shortly after the death of Pericles and basically promised to make Athens great again through ill-conceived ventures outside the core of the Athenian Empire…

I haven’t listened to this yet, but I will soon, and I will probably enjoy it. I just wanted to pre-emptively thank you for posting it! I graduated a classics major (although I focused more on Republican history and lit.), so it’s fun to have this popping up on Deadspin.

It’s my favorite so far. The idea that cities like York went from major urban centers to uninhabited marshland in such a short period is mind blowing.

In 350, Britain was just like any other Roman province, a smoothly functioning, complex economic and political system. It had tax collectors, administrators, governors, and a professional army. There were mass-produced consumer goods, highly developed infrastructure to get those goods to market, and a monetary…

I’m familiar with that—hence my comments about “popular among the uneducated,” “lowered taxes,” “grand projects.”

But it’s hard to take Nero seriously as a true friend of proletariat given his proliferate spending on a massive new palace complex (after the Great Fire) and massive parties that did much to drain the…

It’s great stuff. As someone who loves the early Roman period I was really averse to learning how it ended (I avoided Gibbon) but I’ve been itching to hear the latest one. Keep ‘em coming.

Not late Imperial period, but I’d also throw in Servius Sulpicius Galba (reigned 68-69) as another Trump comp.

Trump is Nero.

Question for Dr. Wyman- which Roman disaster is Trump? Crassus? Caligula? Commodus?

I would love a podcast where you talk about films and television; what they get right and what they get wrong. I’ve watched a few films set during the antiquity since I started listening to this and it’s given me new perspectives. I would love to hear your takes.

I enjoy the podcast. This is a subject you don’t hear much in detail, probably because it’s romanticized in Camelot. I look forward to listening.

When i first saw this headline i thought the article would be about roman period piece movies not being filled with actors with british accents anymore.

Fun fact: In 2011 UFC fighter Jeremy Stephens brutally assaulted a guy in an Iowa bar fight, then jumped state. The next year he was arrested in neighboring Minnesota the same morning he was supposed to fight on a UFC main card. Dana White personally tried and failed to bail him out in time to get him to the arena,…

Stephens as lost as many fights by armbar as he’s won by KO punches.

Best part?
Jeremy “Hardest Hitting 145-pounder” Stephens, last KO’d a guy with punches before Mitt Romney was even the Republican Presidential Candidate.