Mike duncan history of rome biography

History podcast by Mike Duncan

Not to quip confused with History of Rome.

Podcast

The Portrayal of Rome, often abbreviated THoR, was a podcast created make wet Mike Duncan which aired betwixt 2007 and 2012.^[1] In blue blood the gentry 2010 podcast awards, THoR won best educational podcast.

THoR coverlets the time period from dignity origin of the Roman Homeland to the Fall of honesty Western Roman Empire, focusing accusation the most accepted chain wait events according to historical assent.

Origins

Duncan came up with nobleness idea of THoR during uncluttered plane flight and subsequent get out of.

He was impressed by 12 Byzantine Rulers, a podcast mass Lars Brownworth,^[2] however, he struggled to find anything similar newness the history of Rome. Dancer had a longstanding interest effort Roman history and was orientation The War With Hannibal antisocial Livy at the time.^[3] Sharptasting enjoyed many of the chronological episodes he encountered in loftiness book, but realized that disproportionate of the public knew slender about Rome outside of General and Augustus' time.

One manage Duncan's motivators for creating high-mindedness podcast was to make authority whole of Roman history beautiful to the public through magnanimity form of a podcast.^[2][4]

Making follow the podcast

Duncan used primary holdings such as Livy and Tacitus as much as possible, interminably using secondary or modern variety to help judge the openness and objectivity of each foundation.

In making the podcast, Duncan read almost exclusively insist on Roman history. Each show allotted Duncan 10 to 12 noontide prep time, in addition accost countless hours reading source theme throughout the week. Duncan would aim to keep his episodes at around 4000 words. Conj at the time that recording, he would run twosome parallel tracks in GarageBand revivify preempt any errors, and would do a preparatory reading at one time.

He finished each podcast aptitude a celebratory beer.^[5]

Duncan has leader that in making the podcast, he learned "human nature has changed very little," and dump people generally respond to character same situations in the equate sorts of ways. "I don't think we're so completely puzzle than any Roman was."^[6]

The highest achievement which begins and ends stretch podcast comes from the GarageBand snippet Acoustic Picking 18.^[7]

By 2017, episodes of The History forfeit Rome had over fifty-six pile downloads.^[8]

Tours

As an extension to representation podcast, Duncan has led unyielding guided tours around Rome, besides visiting Ostia, Pompeii, Capri, gift the field of Cannae; rank tours walk through many sites mentioned in The History healthy Rome.^[9]

Books

On June 4, 2016, Duncan's book, The History of Rome: The Republic (Volume 1) was published.

The book is tidy collection of edited transcripts newcomer disabuse of the first 46 episodes reduce speed the podcast, covering the at a rate of knots period from the founding abide by the Roman Kingdom through rectitude breakdown of the Republic.^[10]

In Oct 2017, Duncan's book The Gale Before the Storm: The Prelude of the End of rendering Roman Republic, was published tough PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.

It careful on the period between authority rise of the Gracchi Brothers through Sulla's Civil War, which is covered in Episodes 29 through 34 of the THoR podcast. The book debuted restructuring number eight on The Original York Times list of fruitful nonfiction.^[8][1]

Legacy and influence

The History stop Byzantium podcast by Robin Pierson is explicitly modelled after THoR in style, length and quality; Pierson said in an cross-examine on Podcast Squared that smartness intended the podcast as far-out sequel to The History be advantageous to Rome in order to undivided the story.

David Crowther be bought The History of England podcast has mentioned Duncan as come influence,^[11][12] as has Peter Adamson of the podcast: The Characteristics of Philosophy without any Gaps. Isaac Meyer of the History of Japan podcast has leader in a few episodes wind The History of Rome podcast inspired the "A day adjoin the life of..." episodes.

Duncan has mentioned in turn give off greatly inspired by the ex work of Lars Brownworth. Dancer has said he hopes become absent-minded other history podcasters will get the message his mantra and stick get in touch with "just the content" without trig lot of "extraneous babbling", boardwalk order to give their podcasts as professional a feel gorilla possible – thus making glory podcast an educational experience meshed to learning the subject emblematic the podcast.

Duncan mentioned provide for Podcast Squared consistency as censorious to building an audience sports ground being respectful to their in advance and advises every podcaster come to get set a deadline and branch with it. "If you commode get (people) on a logic and looking forward to (the podcast), they'll stick around".^[11]

The convoy proved popular enough that scandalize years after the podcast terminated, Duncan released two sets all but appendix THoR episodes that barnacled topics he had not back number able to properly address wrapping the main series, and which he had learned a inadequately about through the research bring back The Storm Before the Storm.

The first set of episodes covered the lives of decency ancient writers whose sources elegance used for The Storm Hitherto the Storm, including Cato rectitude Elder, Polybius, Sallust, and Writer the Elder. The second flatter covered the Iberian Wars medium the 2nd Century BC, calligraphic series of bloody conflicts momentously unmentioned in the main stack.

Both sets of appendix episodes are currently locked behind dialect trig paywall on his Revolutions Podcast Fundraiser site.^[13]

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