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Rhiannon Evans, Caillan Davenport, Gillian Shepherd and Matt Smith each share three items of Roman interest for three minutes! You will hear:

- Silius Italicus and his unbearable bunion\\n
- Pomponius Mela and the wonders of the Nile\\n
- Snarky soldiers at the Vindolanda fort\\n
- Legacy hunters and the jewels of Matidia\\n
- Unusual dedications to the gods\\n
- Early sources for the great fire of Rome\\n
- The effectiveness of Roman concrete\\n
- How Rome dealt with mass burial of the poor\\n
- Sea monsters\\n
- Curse tablets and sporting fanatics\\n
- Vedius Pollio throws a clumsy slave to the lamprey\\n
- The rare instances of Romans sacrificing people

Guests: \\n
Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Head of Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University)\\n
Assoc. Professor Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)\\n
Dr Gillian Shepherd (Director, Trendall Centre, La Trobe University)