Roman History Expert Answers Our Dumb Questions
Actual expert https://x.com/costofglory, who has a PhD in Classics from Princeton and hosts the history podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cost-of-glory/id1580153815, joins the show for some inexplicable reason to break down why the Roman...
August 4, 20251h 25mExplicit
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Actual expert Alex Petkas, who has a PhD in Classics from Princeton and hosts the history podcast Cost of Glory, joins the show for some inexplicable reason to break down why the Roman dictator Sulla is Rome’s most underrated man, why Caesar wasn’t such a bad guy, and why he left Academia for the internet.
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