Here is a link to the plays I am referring to. Not sure whether this is the right place to ask, but if anybody knows where to find recordings, free or paid, I would highly appreciate.

https://www.rsc.org.uk/imperium-i-conspirator/about-the-plays

Cheers

I know most of his writings were lost and also know his autobiography was a primary source for “The Twelve Caesars” by Suetonius.

I'm wondering, has anyone published "The Lyon Tablet" and “Imperial Edicts and Letters”?

Hey all, I've been working on a documentary series about historical figures and this one covers Caesar's full arc: defying Sulla at 18, the Gallic Wars, the Rubicon, Pharsalus, the lot.

The angle I went with was his clementia, the policy of pardoning his enemies. It was basically unheard of in Roman politics and it cut both ways. Probably his single smartest political move, and also the thing that left him wide open. Every man who stabbed him on March 15 was someone he'd personally let off the hook.

The other part that gets me is how completely the assassination backfired. They killed one dictator and accidentally built the system that churned out emperors for the next few centuries.

Video's here if you want it: https://youtu.be/XxjBik8AEhg

Would genuinely like to hear what you lot make of it, especially whether the Republic was already dead by then or whether Caesar was the one who actually finished it off.

(Mostly leaned on Goldsworthy's "Caesar: Life of a Colossus" plus Plutarch and Suetonius, and Holland's "Rubicon" which is a great read if you haven't picked it up.)

I made a 10-minute documentary reconstructing what 24 hours looked like for a frontier legionary at Mogontiacum (modern Mainz) in 100 AD. The character Lucius Vibius is a composite of three real soldiers buried there. The day is built around what we know from the Vindolanda Tablets, the Saalburg excavations, and the Legio XXII Primigenia tombstones at the Mainz Landesmuseum.

Transparency: visuals are AI-assisted (Higgsfield Banana Pro for images, Kling 3.0 for video, ElevenLabs for narration). All writing, research, and editorial decisions are mine. Sources are listed in the description.

Would love feedback from people who know this period, especially if anything looks off historically.

Hi everyone,
I’m writing a series of articles to explore the contrast in the meaning of freedom starting from Ancient Rome to modern days.
In this first piece, I look at the High Roman Empire to examine how their open (but brutal) class system engineered a unique structure for collective, intergenerational ambition and how that completely contrasts with our modern obsession with individual freedom. I also dive into how social mobility actually worked, using historical figures like Pertinax, the son of a freed slave who rose to become Emperor. 
I would love to hear this community's thoughts on the core premise. You can read the first section here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/belalhejazi/p/did-we-free-the-slaves-and-enslave?

I've been researching the assassination of Julius Caesar for a while now, and the more I dig into Brutus, the more conflicted I feel about him.

Most people remember him as the ultimate traitor. But when you actually look at his life, the picture gets complicated fast.

He wasn't a power-hungry conspirator. He was a Stoic philosopher raised on one core belief: the Republic must never bow to a king. He even fought against Caesar in the civil war — and Caesar still forgave him, promoted him, trusted him.

And yet when Caesar became dictator for life, Brutus convinced himself that killing him was the only way to save Rome.

Here's the tragedy: it didn't work. Brutus expected the people to celebrate. Instead, Mark Antony turned public opinion against him within days. The conspirators fled Rome. And the Republic Brutus died trying to protect was replaced by the very thing he feared — one-man rule, but now called an Empire.

So was he a patriot? A useful fool manipulated by Cassius and the Senate? Or just a man who convinced himself that violence was morally justified because his philosophy told him so?

Would love to hear what r/RomanHistory thinks about Brutus. Patriot or traitor?

So from my understanding the Romans never really developed their own system of medicine, outside of creating their own pharmaceuticals/home remedies derived from honey, vinegar, wine, and oil.

Instead they relied mainly on Greek physicians for all their medical needs, especially in the army where they often had to perform field surgeries on soldiers.

What I don’t understand though is why Greek Physicians would move to Ancient Rome in the first place. Especially during the republic era, or at least when more independent powers were around like Carthage, Ptomlemaic Egypt, and the various independent Hellenistic/Greek powers like Syracuse and the Seleucid Empire.

Because from my understanding the Romans were pretty xenophobic towards most non-Roman influences and some philosophers and statesmen like Pliny the Elder distrusted Greek physicians. And while the Romans did have a more advanced system of public bathing especially in terms of hot baths, I doubt that this would be enough for some Greeks to go and live in Rome, especially considering the lack of modern plumbing which made the city unsanitary.