Classic Chats: Tom Holland

Mary and Charlotte talk to Tom Holland, co-host of the Rest is
History. As well as being a podcasting megastar, Tom is a brilliant
historian of Ancient Rome. His books include Rubicon: The Last
Years of the Roman Republic,  Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s
Golden Age and his recent translation of Suetonius’ The Lives of
the Caesars.  In the first half of this episode, Tom talks
about why Suetonius, with his interest in court gossip and trivia,
is the historian for the current age. In the second half, he talks
about his lifelong fascination with the Romans - from discovering
the Asterix books as a boy, the poetry of Catullus as a teenager,
and how writing a series of novels about vampires led him to write
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