Conflicted: A History Podcast

Kingbreakers: The Praetorian Guard

Mar 30, 2020

01:44:33

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What Can We Take Away From All This?

02:07

How Did Augustus Use His Private Army?

03:18

The Pretorian Guard and Pertinax

01:42

Introduction

4min

The Pretorian Guard and Pertinax

2min

The Roman Empire and the Emperor of Rome

3min

The Pretorian Guard in the Service of the Emperors of Rome

4min

The Great Treasure Hall of Rome

4min

Octavian's Triumph

3min

Octavian's Life and Times

3min

Octavian and the Pretorian Guard

2min

A History of Rome's First Emperor, Augustus

3min

10.

How Did Augustus Use His Private Army?

3min

11.

Roman Autocracy and the Pretorian Police

4min

12.

The Villa of Jupiter

3min

13.

Tiberius Followed Augustus Like a Rock Star

3min

14.

Tiberius and Seganus

2min

15.

Pretoria's Scorpion Insignia

3min

16.

The Little Finger From Gamithrones by Seganus

3min

17.

Roman History - Tiberius and the Old Goat

2min

18.

Tiberius and Seganus - A Tale of Two Monsters

2min

19.

Sejanus, the Most Powerful Man in Rome

3min

20.

The Fall of Tiberius

3min

21.

The Line of Early Roman Emperors

2min

22.

Caligula and the Old Goat, Tiberius

2min

23.

The Death of Caligula in Roman History

3min

24.

'Tib Ris'

3min

25.

Caligula's Pranks Don't End There

3min

26.

Caligula's Unforgiveness

2min

27.

Caligula and the Pretorian Guard

3min

28.

The True Love of Caligula's Life

4min

29.

Are Assassins Heroes?

6min

30.

The Assassination of the Emperor

3min

31.

The Pretorian Guard and the Roman Empire

5min

32.

After Caligula - Roman Politics and the Pretorian Guard

3min

33.

What Can We Take Away From All This?

2min

The story of Rome through the eyes of the infamous Praetorian Guard, feared bodyguards who wielded the power and leverage to make – or break – the Emperors they swore to protect.

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Strauss, Barry. Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine. 2019

De La Bodeyere, Guy. Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard. 2017

Rankov, Boris. The Praetorian Guard. 1994

Bingham, Sandra. The Praetorian Guard. 2012

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Suetonius. Lives of the Caesars. AD 121

Dando-Collins, Stephen. Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome. 2019.

Tacitus, Cornelius. The Complete Works. 1994.

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