Jeremy Ryan Slate's Forces of History

We are going to explore how the Roman Emperor became a god. It was actually something that was engineered by Augustus Caesar and inspired by the Roman general Pompey the Great. In this 5 part series, we will look at how the Augustus Caesar created his divinity. In this first episode, we lay the ground work and set the stage for why this is important and show how it may be.

Rome actually fell in 410 not 476 AD, we'll explore citizenship, Christianity, Hadrian's Wall and several other factors. We'll look at Rome as a brutal end, rather than a slow decline of empire over the 5th century AD.

What to expect from the Forces of History podcast, why it's being done.  We'll cover little known stories from history with a big effect and some big events and causes that weren't always looked at. For more, go to www.forcesofhistory.com