Found this a week ago and I'm absolutely hooked.

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-...-Podcast/25263

Couldn't find any mention so I thought I'd share

Somebody brought it up in another thread, but I don't remember where.

Wholeheartedly agree. Excellent podcast that has gotten me through many a commute. Should be extra good this week, since I'm lecturing on, of all things, Rome!

Nice pro tip. There is a professor who teaches this at UD, but he is notorious for being long-winded, boring, a crazy guy & hard grader so I decided to skip taking a class on ancient Rome. Will definitely want to check this out when I can find the time.

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I did the podcast thread. History of Rome is probably no.1 with Dan Carlin's hardcore history.

+1

Dan Carlin's hardcore history "Death Throes of the Republic" was amazing.

I've been listening to Mike Duncans podcast for the last year and a half and it is excellent. Haven't tried the Dan Carlin one, I will have to check it out thanks for the tip.

If you like Duncan's podcast you will love Carlin's. His Death of the Republic series is amazing.

That last 5 hour episode was a tour de force

mike duncan announced that the podcast is nearing an end. i'm sad. it was good listening once a week.

A huge project that must have been difficult to stay on the treadmill with. I sure it will be downloaded for a long time.

I swear when i saw the 5hour episode i went holy .... The last 30 minutes on the various theories of why the republic crashed is mind blowing.

But this is mike duncan's thread! While Dan is miles ahead in terms of skill in terms of podcasting, Mike Duncan's dedication is really astonishing. Week to Week(except when he's doing history tours in Italy!) for such a huge period of history is stunning.

I think Duncan's tour de force is the anarchy period (200-300), where most historians usually chalk it up too ''lots of emperor's dying very fast, killed by their own general'', Mike went through each emperor and gave good descriptions and made it easy to follow a period that can get very confusing.

I kinda figured he would stop at the 476 deposition of Romulus Augustulus, just from the way the recent podcasts have gone. It's seemed to me for awhile that Mike just isn't as into this material, and by his own confession, he said he likes the days of early Republic the best (for my part, I've always been a fan of the civil wars of the late Republic, complete with their populist and reactionary politics). I have found the latest episodes less enjoyable as well, but it's largely a matter of interest. So far as I am concerned, Julian the Apostate was the last really interesting emperor. After that, it's pretty much just decay in the West, and gradual transformation into the Byzantine era (which I must confess I've always found boring outside of Justinian and his plague) in the East. Perhaps there is a skilled Byzantinist who could present it to me in a more engaging way, but even for history teachers like myself, it helps to have someone who can make the material more relevant.

I also thought he was great following the crisis years, Diocletian through Constantine

Indeed. In particular Aurelian. I already knew diocletian and Constantine so to me its was more a refresher then an eye opener, but for someone whos doesn't know much about the tetrarchy days, it is stunningly good.

Im sad to hear the end of this podcast. I remember listening to his description of romulus and remus like it was yesterday...

I think it has a lot of replay value, I've listened to it twice in full now, and three to four times for certain periods that I like, so I think I'll be relistening to this a lot in the future. I'm most sad that there's no more 'Roman' history for him to cover. Goddamn barbarians (and Christianity).

To be honest, and im opening a can of worm here, i think the real reason for the end of the roman empire is the Islamic invasions. Had they not been there, i can see the byzantine recovering and taking over the western world once more...

True, but that's a related process. Justinian's plague had the effect of culling the vast majority of the urban centers of the Roman and Sasanid Empires, leaving less-urbanized but still advanced groups ("Germans" in Europe, Arabs in the Middle East) to pick up the pieces and pick off the remnants of the old empires. The Sasanids fell rather quickly, but the Byzantines held out for awhile, until they rather foolishly turned down the opportunity to build giant cannons; the Ottomans on the other hand were quite willing to exploit it... cue They Might Be Giants.

"In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome." the famous quote buy Edward gibbons... I disagree completely, but I think i might have to start a mega why rome fell(or did it just transform) thread.

I'm skeptical, can't wall off the rest of Europe like Constantinople.

And lest we forget, the Sasanids were a serious check on Byzantine expansion of force, even if the Arab expansions had never occurred (since they just replaced the Sasanids). Justinian (well, Belisarius) reconquered large parts of the West, but couldn't hold them after the Plague.

I have caught up with this podcast just in time for it to end. It was a really great experience and I will surely listen to it again this summer.

But right now I am more interested in the development of two areas of the former Roman empire after it's downfall. One is the development in Gaul/Germania up to the Frankish Kingdom breaking into the two halves and the develpment of Islam as a dominant force in North Africa/the Arab peninsula. Any good material on this? I would prefer podcast/audiobooks, but if there is anything else sopeone could recommend I would like that too.

Going for a 2nd listen through, love this podcast.

The History of Rome podcast ended on the 6th, nice job and thanks Mike Duncan

I'm excited to see what this "next project" of his ends up being. If it happens... kids always seem to **** everything up.