Sunday 8 May 2011

Domitian - Bread and Circuses Adrian Murdoch



A very short, but well researched and very scholarly account of the emperor Domitian.   This series is on iTunes but is in mv4 format that makes it a bit tricky to listen to on non-Apple MP3 players.  There are various ways of getting round this but they are all time consuming and hardly seem worth the effort for such a short snippet.  (My personal approach would be to open it in Audacity and export it.)

In any case, the visual element makes it well worth watching in a visual medium.  If you are following the exceptional History of Rome series and the very good review of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on the History Books Review then this makes a great further addition to coverage of the period.

http://adrianmurdoch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/03/domitian-emperors-of-rome.html

1 comment:

  1. Thanks so much for the mention. I hadn't appreciated about the mv4 issue - I'll see what I can do. You can also see all of the videos here, by the way. http://www.youtube.com/adrianmurdoch

    Again thanks

    Adrian

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