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The Fall of the West

AD 395 – 565

Goths, Vandals, Huns, the last emperors, and what grew back.

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26hThe Fall of Rome Podcast EssentialPodcast

Thirty-five episodes, finished, by a historian who wrote his doctorate on exactly this. Wyman's argument is that nothing fell in a year; the machinery of the state came apart slowly and locally, and most people inside it never noticed. The best thing in audio on late antiquity.

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3h 27m11. Byzantium - Last of the Romans Fall of CivilizationsEssentialPodcast

Three and a half hours on the Eastern empire from Constantine to the walls falling in 1453. If you have ever wanted the argument that Rome did not fall in 476 laid out properly, this is it.

2h 10mEpisode 353 - How did Romans become Greeks with Anthony Kaldellis The History of ByzantiumEssentialPodcast

Kaldellis has spent a career arguing that Byzantium was simply Rome and that calling it anything else is a later invention. Two hours of him making that case is the single most useful thing you can listen to on the subject.

1h 04mRoman Britain: The Work of Giants Crumbled Fall of CivilizationsEssentialPodcast

The episode that started the series, and still the best hour anyone has made on what it actually felt like when the empire stopped coming. Sound design does half the work; the last ten minutes are genuinely haunting.

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175hThe History of Byzantium Podcast

Picks up the exact week Mike Duncan put the microphone down and keeps going for another thousand years. If you have ever told someone at a party that the Byzantines called themselves Romans, this is the show that armed you.

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6hBarbarians Rising Docudrama

Rome's wars told entirely from the other end: Hannibal, Viriathus, Arminius, Boudica, Alaric. Uneven as history, valuable as a corrective to a shelf full of books written from inside the walls.

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39mEpisode 338 - Get Rid of Byzantium with Leonora Neville The History of ByzantiumPodcast

The companion argument to Kaldellis, from a different angle: the word Byzantine is a seventeenth-century coinage doing quiet damage. Short, sharp, and it will change how you read every book on the shelf.

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