Real Roman History

The complete history of Rome, from its origins in the eighth century BCE through the death of Justinian in 565 CE. Thirteen hundred years of one civilization, told in over two hundred episodes.Direct, warm, unhurried. No simplification of what was genuinely complicated. No softening of uncomfortable truths about Rome's heroes or about the people Rome conquered.The series is built by a team with a consistent point of view. History is made by far more people than the emperors and generals the standard narrative remembers. Material conditions shape events as much as individual decisions do. The peoples Rome conquered were full human beings, not scenery. Battles get the attention their scale and consequence require. Sources get characterised honestly, including their biases.Every episode is built from the primary sources, with the secondary scholarship behind it. Where the sources contradict each other or where modern historians disagree, the series says so. Where claims are uncertain,