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Hello everyone. I am

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busy packing my bags for my trip to Turkey next

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week. I'm also researching the cities of Nicaea, Pergamon and Aphrodisias,

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which I am so excited to visit. Before

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I go, though, I have three things to plug which

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I think will interest you. One

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is actual History of Byzantium t-shirts, which are now available. Second

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is a tour of the actual battlefields of

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the war between the Greeks and the Persians.

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Third is a graphic novel set in Italy

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on the eve of Belisarius' invasion. So

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if any of that is up your street, please check it

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out. lend

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me your ears for the next few minutes.

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Let's start with the comic book set

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in 6th century Italy. It comes from

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friend of the show Marco Capelli, the

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man behind the Storie d'Italia podcast, a

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history of Italy in Italian. So if

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you speak Italian and haven't heard Marco's

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work, you have a treasure trove of

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content waiting for you. The

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comic he's created looks amazing. It

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follows two figures that we know

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about from an Ostrogothic jewellery collection

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that was discovered in the 1930s.

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A Roman patrician Stephanus who

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marries a Gothic noblewoman

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Valatrude. And they are

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subjects of King Theoderic who is trying to

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create a functioning Gothic Roman kingdom in Italy.

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But their union comes shortly

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before Italy submerges into chaos

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and of course Justinian sends Belisarius

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out to retake the home peninsula.

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It's fantastic to see more of Roman history

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brought to life in a popular medium and

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you can get your hands on a copy in

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English or in Italian and in

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paper or in digital format. And

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there are loads of other goodies available

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from Marco's Kickstarter campaign. Google

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Ammianus Vespamundi or go to the history

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of byzantium.com and follow the links I've

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put there so you can get to

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the Kickstarter page. You

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can also watch a trailer with English subtitles

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which looks great. The

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Kickstarter ends on October the 11th

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so act now. Okay

3:31

so next is the tour of Greece

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which is being run by Lantan Jack

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the host of the podcast Ancient

3:38

Greece Declassified. I

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am very jealous of anyone going on this tour.

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It's taking place from January the 3rd to the 11th

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2025 and it visits every site

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connected with the famous war between

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the Persians and the Athenians and

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Spartans. So if you

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want to go you will visit the Acropolis,

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the Straits of Salamis.