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Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2024?

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BMc2020 wrote: post #7
BMc2020 wrote: post #2

The best podcast of 2024 ran from 2007 to 2012 https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/200... I listened to all 179 episodes of the History of Rome podcast. From a simpler time before advertising. 179- The End The history of The History of Rome...Why the Western Empire Fell when it did...Some thoughts on the future...Thank you, goodnight. 178- Not With A Bang But A Whimper In the last few years of th…

Since I got some updoots here is some trivia: The opening guitar that will get burned into brain is of unknown provenance. It's just called 'guitar solo #3' and came with the free sound editing software when he bought the audio card. The USA is not falling like Rome. Rome lasted 800 years and the fall was imperceptable to them. Everything used as a marker for the fall happened more than once. The capital was moved aw…

> Rome was sacked but recovered more than once

That's somewhat arguable. As far as we can tell the 410 AD sack was relatively organized and the violence was somewhat limited (by ancient standards at least..).

By 455 AD the population was almost 50% lower than it was before the first sack and the Vandal sack possibly also wasn't that brutal (no wholesale slaughter or destruction of buildings).

However the end of the 400s while the city still had a massive population by premodern standards (>100k) it was barely 10-20% of the population it had in ~100 AD and then it was almost entirely depopulated during the Gothic Wars and the plague. After that it didn't really recover until the modern era.

> what J. Ceaser did,

He wasn't exactly the first to do it and the precedent of leading an army into the city to overthrow the current government was well established by Caesar's day. Even Pompey himself basically used the threat marching his army into the city to force the senate to concede to his political goals.

Also it's not certain that the Rubicon thing was contemporary (of course legions couldn't technically cross the pomerium/sacred boundary of the city itself without disbanding and Caesar had no legal authority/imperium outside of his province to begin with).

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2024?

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Post by qwytw »

Tides of History is probably the best history podcast I've ever listened to. Instead of a sequential retelling of events it focuses much more on cause and effects and presents a holistic analysis of archaeological findings, anthropology, genetics etc. merged with historical sources/texts.

I really loved the episodes on Ancient Rome and Italy that came out earlier this year. A completely opposite approach of History of Rome (which is also great but the early episodes on the "prehistorical" period were pretty meh.. of course it massively improved by the time it reached the mid/late Republic and especially during the Imperial period).

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2024?

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Post by 2024user »

BMc2020 wrote: post #10
2024user wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> From a simpler time before advertising first episode starts with an ad

From 2007?

Yeah, I checked again and I am getting ads. The link for the first episode is this: http://traffic.libsyn.com/historyofrome/01-_In_the_Beginning...

It looks like it then routes the user to another link. Sometimes you get this one which has ads https://teletraan.libsyn.com

and sometimes you get this one that doesn't have ads: https://content.libsyn.com

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