Aug 17, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
Who the hell is Marcus Camillus? Featuring Rome's version of the Trojan War, Rome's greatest humiliation, a truly scandalous number of white horses and one of the coolest lines any Roman ever…
Janina MatthewsonHostUm, but, um, we're, we're actually here to talk about today, um, another very hot place.
And the beginning of the, um, Roman ideal tempera- temperature period, actually.
Um, which is one of the reasons why the Roman Empire was succ- so successful, is that there is a, like, thousand-year period which almost exactly overlays the Western Roman Empire [laughs] um, at that, where the Mediterranean climate, and the Western Mediterranean, is very, very warm and very, very wet.
Um, and the quote, unquote "fall of the Roman Empire" overlaps almost entirely with the end of that period, and widespread famines as a result of the failure of crops that, uh, had grown for a thousand years in North Africa.
We should be paying more attention to weather and trying to stop weather doing what it's doing.
Um, but, um, we're, we're actually here to talk about today, um, another very hot place.
And the beginning of the, um, Roman ideal tempera- temperature period, actually.
Um, which is one of the reasons why the Roman Empire was succ- so successful, is that there is a, like, thousand-year period which almost exactly overlays the Western Roman Empire [laughs] um, at that, where the Mediterranean climate, and the Western Mediterranean, is very, very warm and very, very wet.
Um, and the quote, unquote "fall of the Roman Empire" overlaps almost entirely with the end of that period, and widespread famines as a result of the failure of crops that, uh, had grown for a thousand years in North Africa.
We should be paying more attention to weather and trying to stop weather doing what it's doing.
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