Gracchus the Elder - Prequel: In His Footsteps - Extra History
Added 2016-09-10 04:46:15 +0000 UTCThe father of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus paved the way for their success... and eventual downfall.
We're excited to have Mike Duncan from the History of Rome podcast visiting us as a guest writer for Extra History! We love his work and recommend you check it out: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
REMINDER: Extra History will be taking a delayed PAX break next week. We'll be back with Lies for this series on September 24!
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Fantastic!
Aya Shida
2016-09-21 00:48:03 +0000 UTCRevolutions is just as great, if not greater. Going from the Punch and Judy squabbles of the Protectorate to the incompetence of Gentleman Johnny's Party Train at Saratoga to the so awful it's almost funny events of Thermidor to his visceral description of the Saint-Domingue Slave Revolt and now the Six Degrees of Francisco de Miranda. And although it currently has around 2/3rd of the episodes of THoR I think there's more content overall because the episodes are considerably longer. No bad thing! UPDATE: I doublechecked - as of his episode on The Jamaican Letter, Revolutions has 71:52 hours of content, while THoR has 73:26 hours. So it's close, but give it a few weeks and that will be addressed.
RMS Oceanic
2016-09-10 17:54:45 +0000 UTCI loved listening to Mike's History of Rome. It was an amazing series
Dani McKenzie
2016-09-10 17:04:15 +0000 UTCTo add to this - a week off, then the lies for the Brother's Gracci, THEN the new topic starts.
Nessf
2016-09-10 15:41:13 +0000 UTCI believe it's the History of Paper Money. Hype Inflation for Hyperinflation!
RMS Oceanic
2016-09-10 14:57:45 +0000 UTCAlso, good job on the episode! Whats next?
Tums Geor
2016-09-10 13:25:21 +0000 UTCIt was Walpole!
Tums Geor
2016-09-10 13:24:49 +0000 UTCIn addition to the History of Rome and Revolutions, Mike Duncan is also writing a book, The Storm Before The Storm, which takes a look at not only the Graachi Brothers, but also Marius and Sulla. Everyone knows about Julius Caesar, but relatively few people look into the generations that precede him and had just as much of a hand in destabilizing the Republic, and The Storm Before The Storm hopes to redress this balance. With a bit of luck it should be out next year. I know I'm buying a copy. :) It was weird hearing Dan call the Selucid Emperor Ant-EYE-oh-KUS rather than ANT-ee-AW-kus, since he's described the eponymous city as ANT-ee-AWK in the past, but it turns out either pronunciation is valid, so never mind. However there's one pronunciation that surprised me. Sub-SEE-kwent? I've never heard that word as anything but SUB-se-KWENT. Enjoy your break, everyone. Thanks for a fascinating and timely series!
RMS Oceanic
2016-09-10 10:30:41 +0000 UTCLike a certain sneaky man whose clothes don't really match the period slipping by to join the elections at 7:55? :-)
Anthony
2016-09-10 10:05:51 +0000 UTCWow. That was a LOT to cover in one episode. To bad it could only be for the one. But thanks much for what y'all could give us!
Kathyrne
2016-09-10 06:10:51 +0000 UTCHave a super great vacation!! * Kitty Hugs! *
Kathyrne
2016-09-10 06:09:54 +0000 UTCMy favorite history pod caster and my favorite YouTube history channel joining forces? Am I dreaming? In seriousness if you have not yet heard Mike Duncan's work you owe it to yourself to give his work a shot. I can only hope that if there's a follow up series on Lucius Cornelius Sulla that they join up again!
Kenobi2
2016-09-10 05:53:09 +0000 UTCP.S. I'm sorry for all the mistakes that slipped by me this series. Those are on me. I've been pretty frenzied with all this planning / rushing around so I haven't been fact-checking up to my usual standard. At least there were very few flags...
Extra History
2016-09-10 05:51:09 +0000 UTCQuick note from Soraya! Now that this episode is out (YAY EPISODE) I'm actually going on vacation for about a month. I love hanging out in the comments with all you folks, but I'll be absent for a while! If you have any direct questions for me or the team, please send them in a direct message as we'll still be checking those periodically. Until then, have fun, be good to each other, and try not to burn down the library!
Extra History
2016-09-10 05:46:42 +0000 UTCAnother episode excellently done! It is definitely worth more than what I give but I will wait until I make more per month.
Joo-Hwan Jun
2016-09-10 05:20:30 +0000 UTC
