The Fall of Rome Podcast

Wondery

Barbarians, political breakdown, economic collapse, mass migration, pillaging and plunder. The fall of the Roman Empire has been studied for years, but genetics, climate science, forensic science, network models, and globalization studies have...

Episodes

32: Listen to Patrick's New History Podcast, Past Lives

32: Patrick is Hosting a New Show! Check out the "Pursuit of Dadliness" Now!

31: Interview: Historian Kyle Harper on Disease, Climate and the Fall of the Roman Empire

30: Tides of History: Natural Disasters and the End of the Roman Empire

29: Tides of History: Justinian the Great and the Reconquest of the Western Empire

28: Tides of History: How the Eastern Roman Empire Survived Attila the Hun and the Disastrous Fifth Century

27: Tides of History: Why Didn't The Eastern Empire Fall?

26: Tides of History: How Latin Became the Romance Languages

25: Tides of History: The Decline and Fall of the Roman City

24: Tides of History: The Roman City

Introducing Tides of History

23: Could the Roman Empire Have Survived?

22: The Brilliance of Saint Augustine. An Interview with Elizabeth Bruenig

21: Rome's Legacy and the Barbarian Kingdoms

20: The Anglo-Saxon Migration, the North Sea World, and the Birth of England

19: Why Didn't Rome Rise Again? An Interview with Professor Walter Scheidel

18: The Warlords of Northern Gaul and the Rise of the Franks

17: Ostrogothic Kingdom or the Western Empire Reborn?

16: The Kingdom of the Visigoths

15: The Death of the Roman Political System