EARLY EPISODE: The 410AD Sack of Rome
Joe is joined by the Zoo Crew to talk about the time Rome hosted the world's largest Goth convention.
Sources:
Zosimus. New History
Michael Kulikowski. Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric.
Ludwig Heinrich Dyck. The Goth Sack of Rome: Barbarians at the Gate in 410 AD. Military Heritage. Volume 7, no 2. 2005.
Herwig Wolfram. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples.
The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 13
Comments (38)
Great episode. Commercial hvac is where it’s at . Local 17 saved my life
I would absolutely love to field the Doug the Donkey figure in a 40K game, just to piss off all the fascist nutters. Unfortunately, the boys made it in 54mm and most games are 28mm. Any chance of getting a 28mm Doug the Donkey?
Best part in response the Byzantines just built more wall
Also this is just goth repo men
“Armenia is the Boston of the Roman empire” is not something I expected to hear on LLBD, but in hindsight, I definitely should have expected it.
Praise Wall!!!
Wall for the wall God!
Rebar for the rebar throne
Artisan Slaughter from Grinted.
There's a Walluigi joke here somewhere
You guys missed the perfect opportunity to rip on Morrisey in the intro...he is such a collosal douchebag
I gotta say, saving ripping on him for midcast was a masterstroke. I listened again without all the background noise in my shop...well fuckin done
It's really, really funny that all the Western Civilization Rome Guys see Rome as this homogenous pillar of white culture but Rome was doing 4th dimensional racism against itself
Rome has been sacked more times than Patrick Mahomes
Goths was a pretty good Mountain Goats album
Wall: One W forwards, two L's back
The Legion of Wallachia
There's a chain of convenience stores here in Australia that sells Faygo.
“Don’t cut the benefits of guys who can do organized violences” (checks news in the US) oh boy this is gonna be interesting lol
Rome doesn't get teabagged, it gets potato sacked
As an electrician Joe keeps me going as a professional! I love you guys! You and the zoo crew and Nate and all the homies make me laugh.
The Stillicho pronunciation feels like a hammer to the temple lol
Look it's been too long since we've had a horrible pronunciation from Joe, he even managed to get through the Mstislav episode without one
Cradle of Filth is not a goth band
😭😭 glad im not the only pedantic genre knower here
It's not a dead rat in the walls, it's just Nick's corpse
I'm a professional domestic spelunker. Good times. Praise wall.
Every bonus episode is a reminder that the money is worth it
Praise? You mean Raise!
Like Rome, I want to be destroyed by a goth.
Seeing cradle of filth live was fun because Danny Filth is very short and wears very thick soled boots to compensate. It is never not funny to see.
Edward Watts wrote a book on the history of the idea of “Rome fell in 410”, which I think I need to read at some point. Also, at this point I would not be surprised at all if “are you now or have you ever been a fan of ICP” is asked at a Senate hearing.
Zoo Crew! Zoo Crew! Zoo Crew!
I feel like I'm gonna have to start some kind of narrative here to defend my love of goth music early Goth music by the way I'm old as shit
I stand beside you, Brother!! ✊ It's kinda funny, listening to 3 guys who are all younger than me, whinge about music like octogenarian nimbys 😁
So when's the "Sopping wet" merch drop?
Somehow it all comes down to wall
I think I would definitely say cradle of filth is infinitely better than Nirvana musically but both suck