{"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 CLXXXIX - Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (Live in Canberra)","slug":"episode-clxxxix-nero-and-the-great-fire-of-rome-live-in-canberra","published_at":"2022-05-20T08:04:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/emperors-of-rome-1057029/episode-clxxxix-nero-and-the-great-fire-of-rome-live-in-canberra","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/emperors-of-rome-1057029","url":"http://www.latrobe.edu.au/marketing/assets/podcasts/emperors/220520-nero-live.mp3","audio_url":"http://www.latrobe.edu.au/marketing/assets/podcasts/emperors/220520-nero-live.mp3","summary":"On the night of 18 July, 64 CE, a fire broke out in the Circus Maximus at Rome. It raged for nine days, destroying or damaging ten of the city’s fourteen regions. Was the fire just a terrible accident? Or was it deliberately lit, either by dissident Christians or by the emperor Nero, who allegedly sang while Rome burned? Recorded on 12th April 2022, in front of a live audience at the Australian National University. Now funding on Kickstarter: Agricola (the podcast miniseries) . Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University).","meta_description":"On the night of 18 July, 64 CE, a fire broke out in the Circus Maximus at Rome. It raged for nine days, destroying or damaging ten of the city’s fourteen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3523,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/emperors-of-rome-1057029/episodes/episode-clxxxix-nero-and-the-great-fire-of-rome-live-in-canberra/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-clxxxix-nero-and-the-great-fire-of-rome-live-in-canberra.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}