Episode 313 - A Roman Comic Book with Marco Cappelli
The History of Byzantium
Robin Pierson
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Marco Cappelli, the man behind the Storia D'Italia podcast, has created a Roman history comic book. Ammianus - the Twilight of an Era tells the story of the incredible change that took place across Italy during the 6th century.
The comic is so good it made me cry. I interview Marco about why he decided to make this and where the inspiration came from.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you belong here? |
| 0:03.0 | Next to me, about to jump into the sea on an army co-steering expedition. |
| 0:08.0 | What's your gut saying? |
| 0:10.0 | Walk away from the edge? |
| 0:12.0 | Or jump in and join a team that we buy your side for life? |
| 0:19.0 | Still listening? and join a team that we buy your side for life. |
| 0:26.7 | Still listening, you belong here. |
| 0:28.5 | Army, recruiting now. |
| 0:29.9 | Search Army jobs. |
| 0:32.1 | Can I have it back now? |
| 0:32.9 | Emma. |
| 0:37.4 | That's not a toy, that's Daddy's. |
| 0:38.1 | No, no, no. |
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| 1:10.3 | Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium, episode 313, a Roman comic book with Marco Capelli. |
| 1:22.0 | Today I'm going to tell you about a Roman history comic book which made me cry. |
| 1:29.3 | It was a big surprise to me. I rarely get to enjoy books or graphic novels about Roman history. My brain is so full of |
| 1:35.0 | Byzantium that I'm not really able to take in more history in my spare time. But this was so |
| 1:41.0 | good and brought to life such a profound moment of change that I found myself in tears at the end of it. |
| 1:48.7 | Unexpectedly. |
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