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LOST ROMAN HEROES

by Matteo & Matthew Storm

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  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 102: Heraclius (Part 2 - Darkness Falls)

    August 9, 2026 · 52 min

    Heraclius arrived on a warship and without shedding a drop of blood, he rid Rome of evil Phocas. Fair-haired. Young. An icon of the Virgin on the prow. That was Heraclius. October 5th, 610 AD. Crowned emperor, married the love of his life…

  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 101: Heraclius (Part 1 - The Tyrant)

    July 26, 2026 · 59 min

    Rome had survived Nero. Rome had survived Caligula, Commodus, and Caracalla. Rome had survived the Crisis of the Third Century, the Huns, the Vandals, the Goths, and a plague that killed half the Mediterranean world. But in the year 602…

  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 100: Leander & Isidore

    July 12, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    LRH Episode 100! We travel to Visigothic Spain to meet the two brothers who saved Roman civilization. Leander of Seville, best friend of Pope Gregorius, made Spain Catholic, converting the Visigothic kingdom from Arianism to Catholicism at…

  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 99: How Slavery Made Rome with Emma Southon

    June 28, 2026 · 55 min

    Join LRH as we interview historian and podcaster Emma Southon, author of the recently published "Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire." For 98 episodes we've covered Roman heroes. But we've never told the story of the…

  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 98: Father's Day Special with History in Zoomer

    June 21, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    Today we collaborate with the awesome father-daughter team of Roly and Maddie from the History in Zoomer Podcast for a very special Father's Day Episode. Together we explore candidates for the very best, and worst fathers in the history of…

  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 97: Gregory the Great (Part 2)

    June 14, 2026 · 55 min

    Rome is an island in a Lombard sea. The emperor is in Constantinople, offering criticism instead of troops. The plague is killing people in the streets. And Gregory, the man who tried to flee his own election hidden in a wine cask, is the…

  • Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 96 - Gregory the Great (Part 1)

    May 31, 2026 · 44 min

    In 540 AD, Rome had thirty thousand people struggling to survive, living inside walls built for a million. Sheep grazed in the forums of Augustus and Trajan. Into this world was born one of the last great Roman aristocrats, a man who would…

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About the show

A father and son ancient history podcast that dives deep into the history of Rome, from its founding to its death, uncovering Rome’s greatest heroes along the way. We read the sources, share lost Romans' incredible stories, debate their legacy, and at the end of every episode we score our hero and decide whether they belong in the Hall of Heroes.