{"podcast":{"title":"Emperors of Rome","slug":"emperors-of-rome-1057029","podcast_index_feed_id":1057029,"rss_url":"https://www.latrobe.edu.au/marketing/assets/podcasts/rssfeeds/caesar.xml","website_url":"http://www.latrobe.edu.au","image_url":"http://www.latrobe.edu.au/marketing/assets/podcasts/images/emperors.jpg","author":"La Trobe University","episode_count":272,"summary":"“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.” - Tacitus. A podcast series looking at the rulers of the ancient Roman empire, by Dr Rhiannon Evans, Dr Caillan Davenport and Matt Smith.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T04:19:49.535524+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/emperors-of-rome-1057029"},"episode":{"title":"Episode CLXXXIII - Philippics","slug":"episode-clxxxiii-philippics","published_at":"2022-02-26T11:14:34+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/emperors-of-rome-1057029/episode-clxxxiii-philippics","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/emperors-of-rome-1057029","url":"http://www.latrobe.edu.au/marketing/assets/podcasts/emperors/220226-philippics.mp3","audio_url":"http://www.latrobe.edu.au/marketing/assets/podcasts/emperors/220226-philippics.mp3","summary":"As the power struggle in Rome continued and generals waged their war on the battlefield, Cicero took to the floors of the senate, confronting Antony with the greatest weapon in his arsenal: the spoken word. He called his speeches the Philippics, and they were influential in turning the senate against Antony. Part II of 'The Liberator's War' Guest: Dr Kathryn Tempest (Reader in Classics and Ancient History, University of Roehampton).","meta_description":"As the power struggle in Rome continued and generals waged their war on the battlefield, Cicero took to the floors of the senate, confronting Antony with…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2550,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/emperors-of-rome-1057029/episodes/episode-clxxxiii-philippics/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/emperors-of-rome-1057029/episode-clxxxiii-philippics.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}