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Introducing NeferTV: Spartacus Blood and Sand - season 1 episode 1 - The Red Serpent

Enjoy the first episode of the new podcast NeferTV with Ann Foster and Gina Berry! New episodes every alternate Monday. Subscribe to NeferTV wherever you get podcasts! Gina Berry has watched Spartacus: Blood and Sand many, many times. Ann Foster has never seen it before. Together ... Show more

. 1h 41min

You Wouldn't Want To Be Enslaved In Ancient Rome! (with Emma Southon)

Ancient Rome is often thought of as an ideal society where toga-clad men debated democracy while eating grapes. But in fact, the Roman Empire and Republic couldn't have existed without slavery. What were these enslaved people's lives like? Pretty awful, actually! Historian Emma S ... Show more

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