Everything History Podcast

This episode kicks off the beginning of the text reading from Ammianus Marcellinus, specifically Book 14 sections 1-5. If you're curious why this text reading does not begin earlier see Ep. 40. The events described by Marcellinus were written in the late fourth century C.E. and those in this episode date to c. 353-4.  Section 1: Cruelty of [Constantius] Gallus Caesar Section 2: Inroads of the Isaurians Section 3: An Unsuccessful Plot of the Persians Section 4: Inroads of the Saracens; their customs. Section 5: The torture of the followers of Magnentius.