{"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 CXCII - The Persecution of Christians (Valerian II)","slug":"episode-cxcii-the-persecution-of-christians-valerian-ii","published_at":"2022-07-01T00:49:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/emperors-of-rome-1057029/episode-cxcii-the-persecution-of-christians-valerian-ii","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/emperors-of-rome-1057029","url":"http://www.latrobe.edu.au/marketing/assets/podcasts/emperors/220701-valerian02.mp3","audio_url":"http://www.latrobe.edu.au/marketing/assets/podcasts/emperors/220701-valerian02.mp3","summary":"Religious persecution wasn’t a new thing for Rome, but under the rule of Valerian they intensified. Christians were now the specified target, but the executions and confiscation of property did little to help the stability of the empire. Episode II of 'Valerian'. Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University).","meta_description":"Religious persecution wasn’t a new thing for Rome, but under the rule of Valerian they intensified. Christians were now the specified target, but the exec…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1784,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/emperors-of-rome-1057029/episodes/episode-cxcii-the-persecution-of-christians-valerian-ii/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-cxcii-the-persecution-of-christians-valerian-ii.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}