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Rhiannon Evans, Caillan Davenport and Matt Smith each share three Roman topics of interest for three minutes! You will hear:\\n
- Scaurus and the marble columns\\n
- The 206 fragments of the Portland Vase\\n
- The paranoia of Emperor Claudius\\n
- The Roman perception of Ireland (featuring exploding sheep)\\n
- The vanity of the Alexander the Sophist\\n
- An early example of chemical warfare\\n
- Living it rough with Seneca\\n
- Goldflake and Innocence\\n
- The nazi fascination with Tacitus' Germania

Guest: \\n
Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)\\n
Dr Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)