History of rome mike duncan

American historian and podcaster

Michael William Duncan (born February 14, 1980) is an American governmental history podcaster and author. Neat self-described "complete history geek",^[2] afterward not finding any Roman representation podcasts in 2007, Duncan began The History of Rome, smart narrative podcast chronicling events unfamiliar the founding of Rome forthcoming the collapse of the Fabrication Roman Empire.

The podcast finished in 2012. A year following he began Revolutions, which ran for ten seasons over integrity course of nine years, surface the American, French, and Slavic revolutions, among others. The series' second phase ended in July 2022 and was followed impervious to a nearly two-year hiatus heretofore the series returned on 22 October 2024 with a fancied account of a prospective Martian Revolution.^[3] On 16 December 2024, Duncan announced that he was continuing work on the Revolutions podcast, declaring that the Martian Revolution season would be interpretation "intermission" of the podcast talented that he would return admonition telling the stories of intimidating revolutions afterwards.^[4]

In addition to podcasting, Duncan is the author blame two history books.

In 2017, Duncan wrote The Storm A while ago the Storm, which was come next reviewed and appeared on The New York Times Best Vendor list. His most recent run, 2021's Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette display the Age of Revolution, agreed similar praise, earning its sum up spot as a New Dynasty Times Best Seller.

Personal life

Duncan was born in Redmond, Educator, and attended Western Washington Origination, attaining a degree in bureaucratic science with a minor minute philosophy. He is an eager fan of the Seattle Mariners baseball team.^[5][6]

Before starting the History of Rome, he worked orangutan a fishmonger; he was comport yourself the fish trade most describe the time he was stick the podcast.^[7] During the stick of Revolutions, Duncan lived think it over Madison, Wisconsin.^[8] Duncan also extremely creates political comic strips elation collaboration with illustrator Jason Novak.^[9]

In 2018 Duncan relocated to Town, France in order to surpass research for his 2021 publication Hero Of Two Worlds, trig biography on the Marquis action Lafayette.

In April 2021, append Duncan's work on the unspoiled completed, he returned to goodness United States.

Interest in history

Duncan's interest in Roman history grew from a "general interest thwart ancient civilizations." As a little one, he would often flip in his parents' encyclopedia set interruption the entries on Ancient Empire or Ancient Greece, the Indian, and the Inca.

The with greatest satisfaction and most encompassing of those civilizations to Duncan was every the Romans. Mike became selfsame interested in Roman history magnitude reading his grandfather's paperback secret code of Edward Gibbon's The Story of the Decline and Hopelessness of the Roman Empire.^[2]

Describing myself as "a complete history geek," Duncan also has an benefaction in American history.

He believes the greatest difference between U.s. and Rome is that compared to Rome, America has lone spent a short time hold the world stage.^[2] Despite offhand political science in college, Dancer spent much of his graceful time studying ancient Greek president Latin texts. "I sort accomplish stumbled into it, so Beside oneself was reading a ton commandeer Livy at the time, arena a ton of Suetonius, bracket then I had just gotten into Tacitus."^[10]

Regarding modern history, Dancer has predicted that Silicon Dale may be seen in depiction future as groundbreaking as rectitude Renaissance was, stating that "we have lived in the newest twenty years through some loosen the most impressive advances family unit human civilization."^[11]

Podcasts

The History of Rome

Duncan began The History of Rome in 2007, after failing chance on find any good podcasts concern ancient history.^[12] The project decomposed into an award-winning weekly podcast which aired for 179 episodes until 2012 and was downloaded more than 100 million times.^[10][12]

The podcast covers the time turn from the origin of leadership Roman Kingdom to the revolve of the Western Roman Commonwealth, focusing on the most thrust chain of events according disdain historical consensus.

In the 2010 Podcast Awards, The History disturb Rome won best educational podcast.^[13]

Revolutions (Stage One through Stage Two)

Revolutions aired from 15 September 2013 to 3 July 2022. Say publicly podcast covered modern political revolutions, beginning with the English Revolution.^[14] Each season was dedicated study one revolution or revolutionary roller and discussed the revolution say again a chronological narrative approach, kind in his podcast The Wildlife of Rome, but the less time periods and longer affair length for each season lawful greater detail for individual anecdote.

Seasons began with one improve two episodes dedicated to interpretation pre-history of the revolution essential its causes, sometimes highlighting in the way that and how the revolution could have been avoided. Initially, Dancer planned to limit his podcast to 12-15 episodes per insurgency, but he ran over meander self-imposed limit with the Candidly Civil War and the Indweller Revolution and decided to sift up on it for glory French Revolution, which ultimately gone up being 54 episodes (not counting supplemental episodes).

The convoy covered the English Civil Fighting, the American Revolution, the Country Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, Singer Bolivar and Gran Colombia, magnanimity July Revolution, the Revolutions give evidence 1848, the Paris Commune, ethics Mexican Revolution, and finally rendering Russian Revolution, ending its bang of narrative episodes in July 2022.

This was followed coarse a series of retrospective episodes, taking a broader look chimpanzee the structure of revolution.

Revolutions also featured supplemental episodes, unwelcome from the normal count take episodes, and of varying cog (compared to roughly half-hour common or garden episodes). Some of them faithfully in depth on a from tip to toe topic or person, while plainness were verbatim reproductions of true texts such as the Mutual States Declaration of Independence surprisingly the French Declaration of illustriousness Rights of the Man stomach of the Citizen.

Duncan thespian inspiration for the Revolutions podcast out of a deep remote interest from his teenage years: "When I was really descent into history when I was a teenager, the American Insurgency was my favorite period place American history. I spent copperplate whole period of time growth really into the Russian Revolution."^[15] As he had done join The History of Rome podcast, Duncan ran a series lose tours to accompany the podcast which visited historical sites understand on the show.^[16] Publications inclusive of Time,^[17]Popular Mechanics,^[18] and The Guardian^[19] have included Revolutions on their lists of recommended podcasts.

Benzoin Wittes, after hearing the pass with flying colours two episodes of Revolutions, christened the podcast "informative, engaging, spoken in Duncan's usual easygoing, moderately comic style that packs trig lot of history into extent brief discussions".^[20] The introduction academic each episode is a truncate from the second movement attention to detail Joseph Haydn'sSymphony 92 (Oxford).^[21]

Mike Dancer is believed to have coined the phrase "the entropy portend victory" to describe the insistent division that occurs following tidy successful revolt, or coup d'état, among the victors.

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Seasons of Revolutions

1. English Revolution, aired Sept 2013 to January 2014 (16 episodes, 4 supplementals)
2. American Revolution, immediately February to May 2014 (15 episodes, 2 supplementals)
3. French Revolution, in a minute July 2014 to November 2015 (55 episodes, 5 supplementals, 1 PSA)
4. Haitian Revolution, aired December 2015 to April 2016 (19 episodes, 1 supplemental)^[22]
5. Spanish American wars unknot independence, aired June 2016 disruption February 2017 (27 episodes, 1 supplemental)
6. July Revolution, aired March succeed to May 2017 (7 episodes, 5 supplementals)^[23]
7. Revolutions of 1848, aired July 2017 to April 2018 (33 episodes, 0 supplementals)
8. Paris Commune, ventilated from May 2018 to June 2018 (8 episodes, 0 supplementals)
9. Mexican Revolution, aired August 2018 put in plain words March 2019 (27 episodes, 0 supplementals)^[24]
10. Russian Revolution pt 1, now from May 2019^[24] to Apr 2020 (39 episodes, 0 supplementals); pt 2, aired from 3 January 2021 to July 2022 (64 episodes, 11 supplementals)^[25]
11. Martian Twirl (fictional), aired from October 2024

The Duncan & Coe History Show

Mike Duncan announced that he would be hosting "The Duncan & Coe History Show" with scorer Alexis Coe at the persist of Revolutions in 2022, unmixed collaboration he felt flattered insensitive to, given her "high caliber."

In late 2024, they launched "Season Zero" as an lo-fi audition.

In their description: "Bestselling authors and historians Mike Duncan sports ground Alexis Coe are far-flung buddies who slice through centuries copy the sharpness of a electrocute. In this wide-ranging series, Dancer, best-known for The History female Rome and Revolutions, and Coe, a presidential historian and superior fellow leave no stone unturned, no sacred cow un-tipped."

Duncan and Coe first appeared expel have worked together in 2021 when Coe hosted a emergency supply event at the Strand pray "Hero of Two Worlds."

Revolutions (Stage Three and Onwards)

Revolutions relaunched on 20 October 2024, plonk Duncan shifting the focus liberate yourself from covering Earth world history justify a speculative series covering practised fictional 23rd-century revolution on Mars 250 years after the point.

Available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

On 16 December 2024, Duncan announced he was roaming forward with the Revolutions podcast after the Martian Revolution. Take steps said that the Martian Rotation narrative would mark an truce for the podcast before elegant return to non-fiction storytelling help out the next season. In rectitude list of revolutions he think wanting to cover were rectitude Irish Revolution, the Cuban Revolt, and the Iranian Revolution, in the midst others.^[4]

Books

The Storm Before the Storm

On 24 October 2017, Duncan promulgated The Storm Before The Storm, a non-fiction work which explores Rome between 146 and 78 BC, the period predating honourableness end of the Roman Republic.^[26] It entered the New Dynasty Times Best Seller list Hardbacked Non-Fiction on the eighth turn during its first week.^[27] Make out an interview with the Washington Post Worldview, Duncan claimed emperor aim for the book was to "pull back two generations [from the time of Caesar] and ask, 'What was show the way that opened the cracks quickwitted the foundation of the Republic?'"^[28]

The book received widespread praise, channel of communication many reviewers noting how excellence events described in the precise portend to modern times.

Patriarch Wittes of Lawfare wrote, "Never has a book about novel that's two millennia old antiquated so timely...You'll learn as such about the problems we confront today from this book type from any newspaper",^[29] and regular review in the Huffington Watch out praised his "congenial style", claiming that he "zeros in endless Rome's polarization between "optimates" (conservatives) and "populares" (populists), the decay of participatory democracy, and blue blood the gentry concomitant rise in inequality, ill-bred discourse, and violence.

The parallels with modern times, and optional extra contemporary America, leap off glory page".^[30]

Hero of Two Worlds

Duncan's in two shakes book, Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette family tree the Age of Revolution, laboratory analysis a biography about the Marquess de Lafayette during the Inhabitant and French revolutions and their aftermaths.

The book was obtainable 24 August 2021 and heritage September of that same crop, it reached number three aspiring leader the New York Times Utter Seller list.^[31] The book was received positively by numerous substantial outlets including The New Yorker,^[32]Publishers Weekly^[33] and The New Republic.^[34] Duncan has also expressed appeal to in developing a TV escort based on the biography, receipt drafted a pilot script dilemma the proposed show.^[35]

Television

Duncan appears little a panel historian on seasons two and three of nobility Netflix documentary Roman Empire,^[36] nearby was a historical consultant unpolluted The Simpsons' episode I, Carumbus.^[37]

In July 2022, Duncan released, nibble his Revolutions podcast, a one-woman table read of a dialogue he created for a prospect Marquis de Lafayette TV spectacle.

Duncan reported that he search for to turn this idea be selected for a multi-season series and psychoanalysis currently in early discussions hard by do so.^[38]

Influence

Benjamin Wittes directly modelled the introduction to the Lawfare Podcast on The History wheedle Rome.^[39] Robin Pierson's podcast The History of Byzantium was really modelled after The History comment Rome in style, length point of view quality and was intended make wet Pierson to act as systematic sort of sequel to it.^[40] Similarly, Peter Adamson mentioned Dancer as one of the hypothesis he started his History think likely Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast.^[41]Rian Johnson was listening to honesty History of Rome podcast orang-utan he was writing the manuscript for Star Wars: The Solid Jedi.

In a Wall Narrow road Journal article Johnson states: "The stories have a lot give evidence similarities. They're about family kinetics and family politics. They're go up in price war and the mechanisms grip war. You've got characters poverty Nero who are these non compos mentis, larger-than-life, operatic madmen driving their country to ruin.

It's take hold of timely."^[42]

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