Episodes

  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 72 : Leo the Butcher

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 72 : Leo the Butcher
    Jun 22 2025
    Born of humble stock, elevated to the purple to be a puppet of Aspar, the barbarian power behind the Eastern Empire's throne, Leo had other thoughts in mind. He had watched as other barbarian strongmen had brought the Western Empire to the brink of extinction, and he was determined that the East would not suffer the same fate. But how could you counter the men who controlled the army and the purse strings to save the Roman state?
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 71: Aegidius & Syagrius

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 71: Aegidius & Syagrius
    Jun 8 2025
    Aegidius and Syagrius, father and son warriors, born of an ancient Roman-Gaul senatorial lineage, would keep the dream of Rome alive in Gaul long after the Western Empire fell. In the baddest of bad neighborhoods, for three decades they reminded the world what Rome stood for, with no help from an emperor in Ravenna or Constantinople. It wasn't about fame for these two, it was about principle! Prepare to be blown away....
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 70: Honorable Mentions (Part 2)

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 70: Honorable Mentions (Part 2)
    May 25 2025
    Join Lost Roman Heroes for Part 2 of our Honorable Mentions series, and meet some of the most remarkable Romans you never heard of: Pope Leo I (stood up to Attila), Anthemius the Prefect (built the Theodosian Walls), Constantine III (Britannia's last hope), Flavius Constantius (one of the West's last magister militums), and our favorite, Marcellinus (THE LAST JEDI)!
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 69: Honorable Mentions (Part I)

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 69: Honorable Mentions (Part I)
    May 11 2025
    Lost Roman Heroes get their own episode, true, but as Season 2 draws to close we admit that we made some mistakes. We missed some guys, sad but true, and some genuinely heroic characters had the great misfortune of not appearing in the historical record. It's OK, these are our misfits, the extra-lost, Lost Roman Heroes, that we believe deserve an HONORABLE MENTION (PART 1). Tune in and meet Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo (Nero's nemesis), Avidius Cassius (Marcus Aurelius almost-successor), Gratian (Valentinian's super capable son, boy-emperor), Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (the last gentleman-pagan), and Timasius (Timmy-tim-tim, Theodosius' general and friend).
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes: Episode 68 - Why The West Fell

    Lost Roman Heroes: Episode 68 - Why The West Fell
    Apr 27 2025
    A special episode in which we @lostromanheroes get to the heart of the question that has vexed proper, professional historians for centuries - 'why exactly did the Empire of the West fall'? Search no further, here we reveal the truth!
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 67: Majorian (Part 2)

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 67: Majorian (Part 2)
    Apr 13 2025
    Having inherited a bankrupt Western Empire, with no treasury, no army, no popular support, and no civitas, Majorian sets about achieving the impossible, knitting the West back together again. Never before has a Western Emperor started in such dire straits, with such ambitious objectives, and with such exceptional talents. We cannot help but wish him the very best (as we shed a tear for him, and Rome)...
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 66: Majorian (Part 1)

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 66: Majorian (Part 1)
    Mar 30 2025
    Majorian was a young Italian commander who served with distinction under Aetius as the great general tried to piece the West back together again. When Aetius is assassinated, Majorian survives the bloodbath, and the murder of three emperors in rapid succession, leaving him on the cusp of the worst job in the world.
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    57 mins
  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 65: Aetius (Part 2)

    Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 65: Aetius (Part 2)
    Mar 16 2025
    Aetius maneuvers himself to the top of the power structure in the West, only to be brought low by Galla Placidia and loyal Bonfatius. After suffering his first and only real defeat, there is no one left to oppose him, but rather than seeking the throne for himself, he dedicates himself to piecing Rome back together, taking on his greatest nemesis, Attila himself!
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    1 hr and 53 mins