Life Of Caesar

Epizodes

• The Last Man Standing – Vespasian #21 02.06.2026 20min

  Vespasian is finally making his way back to Rome and apparently every city he passes through absolutely loses its goddamn mind.... according to Josephus who is, of course, completely unbiased. Meanwhile Domitian is talking a big game about personally crushing the Batavian revolt until Mucianus very firmly tells him to go back to his room. The post The Last Man Standing – Vespasian #21 appeared first on Life Of The Caesars.
• CROWNS FROM THE TEMPLE – Vespasian #20 26.05.2026 17min

  On this episode, the siege of Jerusalem is over and Titus is handing out medals, melting down temple gold to crown his best soldiers, and carving up his legions for their next postings around the empire. We dig into what happened to the early Christian community in Jerusalem — spoiler: nobody really knows, and that's the fascinating part. Then Cam and Ray pause to take in the sheer scale of what just happened: a 2,200-year-old city, wiped off the face of the earth. The post CROWNS FROM THE TEMPLE – Vespasian #20 appeared first on Life Of The Caesars.
• YHWH v JOVE – Vespasian #19 07.05.2026 34min

  On this episode, Cameron and Ray wrap up the fall of Jerusalem in September 70 CE — Titus strolls into the ruins, declares Yahweh helped him destroy Yahweh's own temple, and the boys go deep on the genuinely wild linguistic coincidence that the Roman sky-god Jove and the Hebrew God share the same name. Then it's grim accounting time: survivors get sorted into gladiators, mine slaves, and beast-fodder, Josephus rescues some mates, and rebel leader Simon Bar-Gioras emerges from a tunnel dressed in a white robe trying to pass himself off as a ghost. Plus Cameron's AI fact-checker contradicts itself mid-episode, Ray declines to answer questions about his Michael Jackson glove, and somehow it all makes sense. The post YHWH v JOVE – Vespasian #19 appeared first on Life Of The Caesars.
• UNLEASH THE CARL – Vespasian #18 16.04.2026 20min

  This week we finally reach the end of the Siege of Jerusalem — and it's brutal. Titus storms the upper city, the rebels' back is broken, Simon and John have vanished into the tunnels, and by September 25th, 70 CE, the city is rubble and the Temple is gone forever. We also dive into the fate of the sacred Menorah — where it went, what it meant, and why nobody knows where it is today. The post UNLEASH THE CARL – Vespasian #18 appeared first on Life Of The Caesars.
• Goddamn it, Carl! – Vespasian #17 30.03.2026 30min

  It's August 70 CE, and the siege of Jerusalem is entering its apocalyptic final act. In this episode, Cameron and Ray pick up where the last one left off — starving rebels launching desperate sorties against exhausted Roman legionaries, Titus ordering his men to burn down the silver-coated temple gates to finally crack open the last Jewish stronghold, and the mounting pressure on one of the ancient world's most sacred structures. Before the walls even fall, Cameron takes a deep dive into the remarkable cast of Jesuses and Ananiases haunting Josephus's account of the war — including a wild-eyed plebeian prophet named Jesus son of Ananias, who spent seven years and five months wandering Jerusalem's streets howling "Woe to Jerusalem!" until a Roman siege engine stone ended his career mid-prophecy. Cameron draws pointed connections between this forgotten street-prophet and the Gospel accounts of Jesus of Nazareth, noting that the Gospel of Matthew — written around 75–80 CE, after Jerusalem had already fallen — may owe more to Josephus's war stories than to genuine prophecy. Then history's most consequential act of arson takes centre stage: against Titus's explicit orders, an unnamed Roman soldier — dubbed "Carl" by Cameron and Ray in an extended bit of comedy gold — hurled a burning torch through a golden-framed window of the Temple, setting in motion a conflagration that consumed one of the ancient world's greatest buildings while Titus himself was still inside the Holy of Holies. The looting that followed was so spectacular it caused a gold glut across Syria, halving the price of the metal. Titus freed roughly 40,000 non-combatants into the smouldering ruin of their city — good news delivered alongside very bad news. The end of the siege is now finally within sight. The post Goddamn it, Carl! – Vespasian #17 appeared first on Life Of The Caesars.
• Slip, Trip, and Slit – Vespasian #16 21.03.2026 31min

  It's 70 CE, the walls of Jerusalem are crumbling, and the city is eating itself alive — literally. In this episode of Life of Caesar, Cameron and Ray wade deep into Josephus's harrowing account of the final, grinding assault on the Antonia Fortress and the Temple Mount, where the siege of Jerusalem has reached a level of horror almost beyond comprehension. Titus is still trying to take the city intact, still offering surrender terms that rebel leader John of Gischala keeps refusing, even as 600,000 corpses have been thrown out of the gates and the starving population has been reduced to eating dung, leather belts, and — in one unforgettable episode — a widow named Mary from Perea who roasts and eats her own infant son, leaving even Jerusalem's most hardened killers staggering into the street in shock. Meanwhile, the Roman assaults keep producing their own gruesome catalogue of disasters: brave volunteers like Sabinus the Syrian and the Abian centurion Julian charge the walls in spectacular solo acts of courage, only to be undone by the cruel physics of hobnailed caliga boots sliding out on blood-slicked marble floors. A trumpeter and sixteen centuries break into the Antonia in a daring pre-dawn raid, a legionnaire named Longus cuts his own throat rather than surrender or burn, and a soldier called Artorius survives a sixty-foot jump by landing on — and killing — his tentmate Lucius, who had agreed to catch him in exchange for his inheritance. Through it all, Josephus insists it wasn't the Romans but God himself who condemned the Jews, a theological contortion Cameron links to the writing of the Gospel of Mark and the birth of Christianity from the ashes of the Temple. There's also a lengthy and highly entertaining detour into medieval witch trials, broomsticks, and the surprisingly pharmaceutical origins of flying — Cameron has been reading Carlo Ginzburg, and he has things to tell you about salves and sticks that will change how you watch *Wicked* forever. The post Slip, Trip, and Slit – Vespasian #16 appeared first on Life Of The Caesars.
• Vespasian #13 – Titus Likes It Tight 15.02.2026 34min

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• Gallienus: The Pragmatist Who Kept Rome Alive 24.10.2025 1h 14min

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• Vespasian #7 – Birds, Betrayal, and the Birth of Christianity 07.10.2025 33min

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• Vespasian #6 – Bitumen, Blood, and Bias 22.09.2025 21min

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• Vespasian #5 – Circumcision, Sabbath, and Salt 05.09.2025 27min

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• Vespasian #4 – Marc Hyden, author, “Emperor Titus” 18.08.2025 1h 18min

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• Vespasian #3 – The Sticky Wicket 25.07.2025 31min

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• Vespasian #2 – Big Dick Imperium: Vespasian’s Real Power Brokers 15.07.2025 21min

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• Vespasian #1 – Welcome to Vespasian 11.06.2025 22min

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• Vitellius #20 – Despite Everything, I Was Your Emperor 31.05.2025 17min

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• Vitellius #19 – Rome’s Civil War Gets Horny 22.05.2025 24min

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• Vitellius #14 – Order 66 28.02.2025 32min

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• Vitellius #9 – STRIKE FIRST, STRIKE HARD, NO MERCY 31.12.2024

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• Vitellius #5 – The Mule Guy 17.10.2024 1h 7min

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