Pascal and Jacob
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Pascal and Jacob take you on a winding journey through time. From Greece to Egypt, from Rome to Great Britain we will be with you along the way. When we started this podcast we knew nothing of the past, but That's All Ancient History Now!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Pascal Kempson and Jacob Paik make late antiquity legible by following how peoples, rulers, and Roman institutions changed through conquest and fragmentation.
Pascal Kempson and Jacob Paik turn the Huns and Goths into a running conversation about migration, conquest, belief, and the weakening boundaries of Roman power.
A magic deer sounds charming until you remember someone already lives on that land.
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A lively look at how the Hun name shifts from identity to legacy, insult, and legitimacy.
This episode is at its best when it treats the Huns as a people whose identity kept shifting after Attila. The discussion follows that thread cleanly, moving from claims of descent to the way a name can be borrowed for status or turned into an insult in Rome.
Attila's raids, tribute, and Roman maneuvering get a witty, skeptical, loosely paced treatment.
The episode takes a brisk, bantering route through Attila's pressure on the Eastern Roman Empire, and it settles into its best rhythm once the hosts move past the technical hiccups and into tribute, raids, and the odd fact that the Huns could be harrying one half of the Roman…
A chatty Huns story that turns myth, migration, and conquest into easy listening.
Pascal and Jakey return from their break with a Huns episode that treats origin story as both legend and history. It opens with a miracle stag, or a runaway cow in another telling, then moves toward the harsher reality underneath: migration, takeover, and the people already…
A relaxed history episode that makes Roman influence feel surprisingly close.
Pascal Kempson and Jacob Paik turn a festive conversation into a neat tour of how Roman influence kept resurfacing long after Rome itself. The discussion moves from Christmas food and routines to London landmarks like Marble Arch, Bank, St Paul's Cathedral, and the Wellington…
A clear look at Theodoric's rise in Italy, balancing Arian Christianity, Roman politics, and a careful bid for legitimacy.
The segment gives Theodoric's rise in Italy a clear, lively shape, linking his Arian Christianity to power, diplomacy, and religious identity without losing the thread.
A witty, unruly guide to the Goths that makes Roman collapse feel immediate.
This episode offers a brisk, banter-heavy introduction to the Goths, tracing who they were, how they moved under pressure, and why Rome struggled to contain them.
Greek myth told with fatal momentum.
Ancient empire told in old public-domain voices.
Pascal and Jacob explore the history of the Ostrogoths, from their origins and conflicts with the Huns to the reign of Theodoric the Great, who expanded their kingdom into Italy.
Pascal Kempson and Jacob Paik close their Huns run with the aftermath of Attila's death in 453 AD, when Alak, Denzich, and Ernak split the confederation.
Pascal Kempson and Jacob Paik use Attila the Hun to move from a bot-review joke and Kobe Bryant commentary into tribute politics, battlefield tactics, and Roman diplomacy.
Pascal Kempson and Jacob Paik use a four-week return episode of That's All Ancient History Now to open a three-part Huns series on the years before Attila.
["That's All Ancient History Now S2E6, A Roman Legacy, traces how Roman roads, Latin, government, Christianity, and Saturnalia still echo in modern life.", "Pascal Kempson and Jacob Paik open with Christmas banter, then compare the Circus Maximus's 250,000-seat crowd with the Colosseum's 50,000.", "The pair move through Roman roads, aqueducts, bath houses, Buckingham Palace, Marble Arch, St Paul's Cathedral, and Latin's survival in the Roman Catholic Church and the sciences.", "They close by linking the Roman Senate, elected tribunes, Theodosius the First, and Saturnalia's role reversal to later Christmas customs."]
Tiberius’s Roman biography includes decimation, a punishment in which one soldier in ten could be killed for a unit’s misconduct.