The Rise of the Praetorian Guard
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What's Tacitus?
Ancient history is very much alive and kicking, i'm glad you mentioned fishborn. I think it's a portmantin where we get our information from. A lot of the time we rely very much on classical sources. Some people are writing quite a lot later than some events we're going to be describing. So there'll be cassiustyre writing another hundred years after him. And what you try to do is take all these piece alike a detective, makes sense of them.
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