Rome in 15 Buildings 02: The Rostra

The Toldinstone Podcast - A podcast by Garrett Ryan

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This second episode of our History of Rome presents the Rostra, the speaking platform in the Roman Forum, as a key to understanding the turbulent world of the Late Republic. It focuses on the career of Cicero, Rome’s greatest orator, who was successively applauded and impaled on the Rostra.