# Adrian Goldsworthy
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Adrian Keith Goldsworthy (; born 1969) is a British historian and author who specialises in ancient Roman history.
== Education ==
adrian goldsworthy attended Westbourne School, Penarth. He then read Ancient and Modern History at St John's College, Oxford, completing a D.Phil in ancient military history from Oxford University in 1994.
Who Killed the Roman Republic, Episode 4
Best friends become best frenemies as Marius and Sulla come to blows and a whole lot of Romans get caught in the middle. Can the republic survive?
Sources:
Storm Before the Storm, Mike Duncan
Caesar: Life of a Colossus, Adrian Goldsworthy
History of Rome podcast, Mike Duncan
Pompey: The General Who Could Have Been Caesar | 106–48 BC
Pompey could have been Caesar. He chose the Republic, and the Republic destroyed him. Every structural ingredient Caesar would later use to end the Roman Republic, Pompey had first. He refused to use them. That refusal is what killed him.
In 62 BC, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus landed at Brindisium wit...
Pompey: The General Who Could Have Been Caesar | 106–48 BC
Pompey could have been Caesar. He chose the Republic, and the Republic destroyed him. Every structural ingredient Caesar would later use to end the Roman Republic, Pompey had first. He refused to use them. That refusal is what killed him.
In 62 BC, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus landed at Brindisium wit...
1.6 The Second Punic War
Season 1 · Part 6 of 8 · Prequel to the Maccabean Revolt
Hannibal Barca crossed the Alps with elephants at twenty-nine and spent fifteen years loose in Italy, never losing a pitched battle on Roman soil. This episode traces the whole arc: the founding legend of Carthage and a queen's oxhide barg...
1.5 The First Punic War
Season 1 · Part 5 of 8 · Prequel to the Maccabean Revolt
Rome controlled all of Italy by 264 BC but had never fought a war it couldn't walk to. Carthage owned the sea. What follows is twenty-three years of improvised fleets, a boarding bridge called the raven, a Spartan mercenary who taught Cart...
Bonus K. Home - Homesickness of Alexander’s veterans
How many victories can a man trade for years of his life? Through the eyes of Menon, a blacksmith in Alexander’s army, follow the Macedonians after Persepolis as wealth, exhaustion, and years away from home begin to change what victory means.
With Darius dead and the war they thought they were fi...
Who Killed the Roman Republic, episode 5
After Sulla "saved the republic," (his words, not ours), a new generation of Roman leaders rose who thought, hey, if Sulla could become dictator for life, why not me?
Before long, they were all killing each other and pushing the republic toward the brink.
Sources:
Caesar: Life of a Colossus...
Saga I. The Price of Duty - The Philotas affair & Murder of Parmenion
What does duty cost when obedience becomes complicity? Through the eyes of Damon, a young royal courier in Alexander’s army, witness the Philotas affair and the secret mission that carries Alexander’s orders across hundreds of miles to Parmenion in Ecbatana.
This immersive historical fiction pod...
Who Killed the Roman Republic, Episode 6
Caesar has defeated Pompey and become the most powerful Roman in the republic. Will he use that power to reform and save the republic, or make himself a king?
Sources:
Caesar: Life of a Colossus, Adrian Goldsworthy
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome, Adrian Goldsworthy
History of Rome podcast...
1.23. Hunting Satibarzanes twice - The Rebel of Areia
The first time Satibarzanes betrayed Alexander, the king turned his army around and raced roughly seventy-five miles in two days to catch him. Satibarzanes escaped. The second time, Alexander did not bother coming himself. Through the eyes of Mikkos, a Macedonian cavalryman who takes part in both...
