Germanicus
Roman general and politicianWikipedia
264
MENTIONS
30
EPISODES
21
PODCASTS
Search complete. 264 mentions across 30 episodes found for "Germanicus".
Oct 19, 2026
John BatchelorHOST
I am Gaius.
John BatchelorHOST
Germanicus is here.
John BatchelorHOST
The Centurions
Michael VlahosGUEST
are all retired men and
John BatchelorHOST
taken their chairs in our Germanicus's Place expanded wine bar.
John BatchelorHOST
We have spectacular news from the gladiators Craxus and Tetradus, who've been with us now two weeks.
John BatchelorHOST
I underestimated their abilities.
John BatchelorHOST
And they make money on the luxury boxes.
John S. WhiteNARRATOR
Procellius says that those which were used at the triumph of Pompey were unable to go in harness through the gate of the city.
John S. WhiteNARRATOR
In the exhibition of gladiators which was given by Germanicus, the elephants performed a sort of dance with their uncouth and irregular movements.
John S. WhiteNARRATOR
It was a common thing to see them throw arrows with such strength that the wind was unable to turn them from their course, to imitate among themselves the combats of the gladiators, and to frolic through the steps of the Pyrrhic dance.
John S. WhiteNARRATOR
After this too, they walked upon the tightrope.
John BatchelorHOST
And here comes the Roman Orchestra on time.
John BatchelorHOST
Remember, uh, Germanicus and I will be together on Sunday to deal with some of the vicissitudes of empire.
John BatchelorHOST
A podcast of our conversation about a flying car and about the future, and certainly about the storms and fires of Southern California, always available at Amazon, at Apple, at Spreaker, at S- uh, Spotify, and other distinguished venues.
John BatchelorHOST
I'm John Batchelor.
Mary BeardHOST
The case where we got, we can see this the best and get an idea of, of actually the sometimes perplexing variety of what was done to these people's memories is the case of a guy called Gnaeus Piso, um, who was put on trial in 20 CE.
Mary BeardHOST
He had been thought to be, alleged to have been implicated in the murder of, uh, the imperial prince, uh, Germanicus.
Mary BeardHOST
Um-
Charlotte HigginsHOST
Right.
Mary BeardHOST
We want to..." This damnatio is removing him from the other, um, kind of context in which this guy meant something, which was his family context.
Charlotte HigginsHOST
So it's like make him as if he'd never existed.
Mary BeardHOST
It doesn't say, um, that his, uh, name should be gouged out from any inscriptions that he might have put up saying, you know, in his province, "This is a directive from the governor Gnaeus Piso." It singles out one inscription [laughs] from which his name should be erased, and that is the inscription on the statue of Germanicus, um, that had been erected partly at his say so and with his support, uh, in central Rome.
Mary BeardHOST
So what the, what the maneuver is doing is kind of putting a wedge.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Such is Gunderman's conclusion, resulting from his own investigations, added to those of Wachsmuth and Wolflin.
speaker_1NARRATOR
From internal evidence, Gunderman places the composition of the first three books between eighty-four and ninety-six, basing this inference upon references to the mission, who is repeatedly called Germanicus, a title not given to him until after his expedition against the Germans in eighty-three, and who is nowhere called Divos, as is Vespasian in the Strategemata and Nerva in the De Aquis, so that the composition of the work evidently fell within the lifetime of the mission.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The dating of the fourth book is a matter of conjecture.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Wachsmuth assigned it to the fourth or fifth century, believing it the work of a Ludimagister, who compiled it when seeking examples suitable for declamationes or controversiae.
1 HR 56 MINS LATER
Mark DiSanzoNARRATOR
Then he held in reserve six cohorts for emergencies, placing them obliquely on the right from which quarter he was expecting an attack of the enemy's cavalry.
Mark DiSanzoNARRATOR
No circumstance contributed more than this to Caesar's victory on that day, for as soon as Pompey's cavalry poured forth, these cohorts routed it by an unexpected onset and delivered it up to the rest of the troops for slaughter.
Mark DiSanzoNARRATOR
The emperor Caesar Augustus Germanicus, when the Chatti, by fleeing into the forests, again and again interfered with the course of a cavalry engagement, commanded his men as soon as they should reach the enemy's baggage train to dismount and fight on foot.
Mark DiSanzoNARRATOR
By this means he made sure that his success should not be blocked by any difficulties of terrain.
A.D. TippettHOST
Before him came Corleianus, Catulus, Scipio Africanus, Aemilius Paulus, Scipio Aemilianus, Gaius Marius Sulla, and Pompey.
A.D. TippettHOST
After Caesar, there was Marcus Agrippa, Tiberius, Drusus, Germanicus, Agricola, Trajan, and later Septimius Severus.
A.D. TippettHOST
No, we're certainly bad generals.
A.D. TippettHOST
I mean, we could talk about Conde or Tudorburg Forest, and one could gain command through family connections, as was the problem at Orazio.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Caligula's passport to success was the fact that he was the son of a national war hero.
Tony RobinsonHOST
In fact, there was a story floating around at the time that he'd actually been born in an army camp while his father was fighting a battle.
Tony RobinsonHOST
The reality though is that he was born here in Antium in southwest Italy on the 31st of August in the year 12 AD.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Antium, or Anzio as it's now known, was the Roman equivalent of the Hamptons, a summer playground for the super rich just a little bit away from town.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Caligula's real name was Gaius.
Tony RobinsonHOST
He was the third son of a wealthy family, and if he didn't have his nickname yet, he had just about everything else you can imagine.
Tony RobinsonHOST
His father was the legendary war hero Germanicus, who'd won the hearts of Rome with his conquests in Germany, but he was far more than a war hero.
Tony RobinsonHOST
The Emperor Tiberius had adopted Germanicus as his heir.
Tony RobinsonHOST
In terms of social standing, Nero had a great family, although in terms of a healthy psychological background, they were a disaster.
Tony RobinsonHOST
First, there was his father, a tough and brutal alcoholic called Gnaeus.
speaker_1GUEST
This is a man who killed an ex-slave during a drinking bout, gouged out a
Tony RobinsonHOST
fellow senator's eye when he criticized him in the forum, and deliberately killed a young boy in a traffic accident in a fit of road rage.
Tony RobinsonHOST
She created him, she made
speaker_1GUEST
him, and in the end, she all but destroyed him.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Agrippina's father, the war hero Germanicus, had been heir to the imperial throne, but had died tragically young.
Tony RobinsonHOST
She was ferociously ambitious and well aware that the only way to power for a woman was through a husband, or better still, a son.
John BatchelorHOST
It's not discouraging.
John BatchelorHOST
And I am having a conversation with my good friend Germanicus in our wine bar, expanded wine bar.
John BatchelorHOST
The centurions are settling down.
John BatchelorHOST
Everybody is feeling that we're ready for winter.
John BatchelorHOST
Not even his name.
John BatchelorHOST
I want to concentrate on Hegseth gaining attention by saying, firing squad online.
John BatchelorHOST
Germanicus, what's wrong with this is that's not how Rome did it.
John BatchelorHOST
And I don't know that Hegseth is ignorant of that.
John BatchelorHOST
And – but Julia didn't – after Marcus Agrippa died, things didn't work out for her.
John BatchelorHOST
But her grandchildren – wasn't her grandchildren the people that were dying sort of mysteriously? Was Germanicus her grandchild – was her child?
Daisy DunnGUEST
So it's a very complicated family tree.
Daisy DunnGUEST
So after Agrippa dies, she is forced to marry her stepbrother Tiberius.
Daisy DunnGUEST
So they don't have a happy marriage.
Daisy DunnGUEST
But she has, as you say, these five children by Agrippa.
Daisy DunnGUEST
And one of them is Agrippina the Elder, who marries Germanicus, who becomes an enemy of Tiberius.
Daisy DunnGUEST
So it's all quite messy and knotty and complicated.
20 more episodes mention Germanicus.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.