Palatine Hill
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Sep 22, 2026
Rachel S. RobertsGUEST
And then I kind of, you know, it's like name dropping throughout some other relevance.
Rachel S. RobertsGUEST
So if I'm talking about the sacred hills, like, the Palatine Hill and Palatine or the goddess Palatine is connected to that.
Rachel S. RobertsGUEST
So they are kind of all go in there.
Rachel S. RobertsGUEST
And then of course I've got my YouTube video series, which I'm trying to do every single Roman deity is having a YouTube
Stephen DaveyHOST
It's related to an upward focus.
Stephen DaveyHOST
Now, in light of what's going to happen to Peter's readers, by the time they get this letter, Nero has only recently burned Palatine Hill.
Stephen DaveyHOST
He's making room for a new palace.
Stephen DaveyHOST
His poll numbers go way down, so he blames the Christians for starting the fire, hoping to increase his popularity back.
Robert HarrisGUEST
Yes.
Robert HarrisGUEST
The mystery, one of the great mysteries about Agrippa is that he was born into a plebeian common family, not much money, no status, and yet at the age of about 13 or 14, he was sent to a school on the Palatine Hill, which was for the sons of senators and the elite, and there he met the great nephew of Julius Caesar, who was at that time in Gaul and just about to cross the Rubicon and invade Italy.
Robert HarrisGUEST
Why it was that Agrippa should find himself at school with someone like Octavius is a puzzle, but certainly that was the making of him, because they became close friends.
Robert HarrisGUEST
I think because Octavius was always rather a weedy, sickly figure.
MatteoGUEST
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MatteoGUEST
Palatine Hill.
MatteoGUEST
Like swings-
Janina MatthewsonHOST
Yes
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
If we compare the site of Rome with the sites of the numerous cities which simultaneously with the earliest settlements on the Seven Hills covered the plain of Latium and the adjoining hills, we find that each of the other towns was built on some steep or easily defended hill.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Some of these hill towns, such as Praeneste, were actually stronger than either the Roman capital or the Palatine Hill.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
But nowhere do we find, as on the Tiber, a group of hills possessing each the advantage of defensibility, and yet lying so close to one another that the political isolation of each was impossible, and that some kind of combination or federation for the maintenance of internal peace became absolutely necessary.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
People who live at a distance from each other may indulge in occasional strife, but if by proximity of habitation they are compelled to have daily intercourse with one another, they are obliged to agree upon some terms of amicable life, if they do not prefer the miseries which internecine war must entail on all.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
But the wicked king was not able to oppose the will of the gods, for Mars the god of war loved the virgin and she bore twins.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
When Amulius heard this he ordered the mother to be killed and the twins to be thrown into the river Tiber.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
But the gods watched over the children, and the basket in which they were laid floated to the foot of the Palatine hill near the cave of the god Lupercus and was caught by the branches of a fig tree.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The waters of the river now fell rapidly and the twins were left upon the land.
Peter ZeihanHOST
Zayn here coming to you from Rome.
Peter ZeihanHOST
This is Palatine Hill on my right.
Peter ZeihanHOST
Why am I talking about ancient Roman stuff? Because it's actually disturbingly appropriate to where we are today.
Peter ZeihanHOST
Let me give you the history.
Ryan HolidayHOST
We talked recently about how the emperor would have rarely gotten to take walks like a normal person, with the exception of the emperor's shortcut, a hidden 300-yard passageway of zigzagging ramps from the palace down to the forum, separated from the streets of Rome.
Ryan HolidayHOST
Indeed, if Marcus wanted to take a walk safely, he would have had to do it around the emperor's private track on Palatine Hill, which for all its luxury was basically a prison yard for his personal use.
Ryan HolidayHOST
Of course they went crazy.
Ryan HolidayHOST
Meanwhile, we subject ourselves to a version of this voluntarily.
LeniNARRATOR
The spoil thus acquired they divided with the shepherds, and in company with these, the number of their young associates continually increased, they carried on both their business and their sports.
LeniNARRATOR
It is said that even at that early period the sports of the Lupercal, which we still celebrate, were practiced on the Palatine Hill, and that this was called Palatium, from Palantium, a city of Arcadia, and afterwards the Palatine Hill.
LeniNARRATOR
And that Evander, who was of that tribe of Arcadians and had been many years before in possession of this part of the country, had instituted there this solemnity brought from Arcadia, in which young men were to run about naked, in sport and wantonness, in honor of Lycian Pan, whom the Romans afterward called Inuus.
LeniNARRATOR
While they were intent on the performance of these sports, the time of their celebration being generally known, the robbers, enraged at the loss of their booty, attacked them by surprise, having placed themselves in ambush.
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LeniNARRATOR
There is another account more generally received, that Remus, in derision of his brother, leaped over the new wall, and that Romulus, enraged thereat, slew him, uttering at the same time this imprecation, So perish every one that shall hereafter leap over my wall.
LeniNARRATOR
By these means, Romulus came into the sole possession of the government, and the city, when built, was called after the name of its founder.
LeniNARRATOR
The first buildings which he raised were on the Palatine Hill, where he himself had been brought up.
LeniNARRATOR
To the other deities he performed worship, according to the mode of the Albans, but to Hercules according to that of the Greeks, as instituted by Evander.
LeniNARRATOR
The spoil thus acquired they divided with the shepherds, and in company with these, the number of their young associates continually increased, they carried on both their business and their sports.
LeniNARRATOR
It is said that even at that early period the sports of the Lupercal, which we still celebrate, were practiced on the Palatine Hill, and that this was called Palatium, from Palantium, a city of Arcadia, and afterwards the Palatine Hill.
LeniNARRATOR
And that Evander, who was of that tribe of Arcadians and had been many years before in possession of this part of the country, had instituted there this solemnity brought from Arcadia, in which young men were to run about naked in sport and wantonness in honor of Lycian Pan, whom the Romans afterward called Inuus.
LeniNARRATOR
While they were intent on the performance of these sports, the time of their celebration being generally known, the robbers, enraged at the loss of their booty, attacked them by surprise, having placed themselves in ambush.
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LeniNARRATOR
Remus fell by a blow received in the tumult.
LeniNARRATOR
There is another account more generally received, that Remus, in derision of his brother, leaped over the new wall; and that Romulus, enraged thereat, slew him, uttering at the same time this imprecation, 'So perish every one that shall hereafter leap over my wall.' By these means Romulus came into the sole possession of the government, and the city, when built, was called after the name of its founder.
LeniNARRATOR
The first buildings which he raised were on the Palatine hill, where he himself had been brought up.
LeniNARRATOR
To the other deities he performed worship according to the mode of the Albans, but to Hercules according to that of the Greeks, as instituted by Evander.
Alan WeymanNARRATOR
But could I gather from the wave-worn store Enough for my rude boat, where should I steer? There wooes no home, nor hope, nor life, save what is here.
Alan WeymanNARRATOR
Then let the winds howl on! Their harmony Shall henceforth be my music, and the nights The sound shall temper with the owlet's cry, As I now hear them in the fading light Dim o'er the bird of darkness' native site Answer each other on the Palatine, With their large eyes, all glistening gray and bright, And sailing pinions.
Alan WeymanNARRATOR
Upon such a shrine, What are our petty griefs? Let me not number mine.
Alan WeymanNARRATOR
Cypress and ivy, weed and wallflower, grown, Matted and massed together, hillocks heaped On what were chambers, arch crushed, column strown In fragments, choked-up vaults, and frescoes steeped In subterranean damps, where the owl peeped, Deeming it midnight.
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