Rome, Episode by Episode

The Rest Is History — arranged in the order the history happened, not the order it was published.

Numbers are main-feed episode numbers; a range is a multi-part series. Rome has been covered in several passes since 2020, so some periods appear more than once. ▶ YouTube opens a search for that episode on the official Rest Is History channel — most full episodes are posted there; a few early bonus editions are audio-only.

I · Foundation & the Kings753–509 BC

No standalone kings-of-Rome series yet. Early Rome is set up inside the Punic Wars and Marius & Sulla series below; the foundation myth of Aeneas turns up in the Trojan War episodes (216–218).

II · The Republic & the Punic Wars509–146 BC

421–424 Carthage vs. Rome The rise of Carthage, the First Punic War, and Hamilcar & the Barcids in Spain. (2024) ▶ YouTube
568–571 Hannibal Saguntum, the crossing of the Alps, Trebia, Trasimene and Cannae (216 BC). (2025) ▶ YouTube
640–643 Rome’s Greatest Enemy After Cannae: Scipio Africanus, Zama (202 BC), and the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC. (2026) ▶ YouTube

III · The Late Republic133–49 BC

305 The Fall of the Roman Republic A single-episode overview running from the Gracchi to the rise of Augustus. (2023) ▶ YouTube
2026 Rome’s First Civil War: Marius & Sulla The Jugurthine War, the Cimbric terror, and the first Roman general to march his army on the city. (Aug–Sep 2026 — check the archive for exact numbers.) ▶ YouTube
2025 Spartacus & Gladiators, with Mary Beard The slave war of 73–71 BC. (Full episode, Oct 2025) ▶ YouTube

IV · Caesar, Cleopatra & the End of the Republic49–30 BC

134 Crossing the Rubicon: The rise of Julius Caesar Gaul, the First Triumvirate, and how Caesar became powerful enough to gamble everything. (2022) ▶ YouTube
135 Crossing the Rubicon: The die is cast Civil war, Pharsalus, the dictatorship, and the Ides of March (44 BC). (2022) ▶ YouTube
195 Young Cleopatra Ptolemaic Egypt and Cleopatra’s early life. (2022) ▶ YouTube
196 Julius Caesar & Cleopatra Alexandria, the affair, and Caesar’s assassination. (2022) ▶ YouTube
197 Antony & Cleopatra The second triumvirate, the eastern court, and the break with Octavian. (2022) ▶ YouTube
198 Cleopatra’s Downfall Actium (31 BC), the fall of Alexandria, and the end of the Ptolemies. (2022) ▶ YouTube

V · Augustus & the Julio-Claudians27 BC – AD 68

534–538 Emperors of Rome Suetonius’s lives of the Caesars — Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula (“Incest and Insanity”), Claudius (“Paranoia and Poison”) and Nero. (2025) ▶ YouTube
56 Nero The earlier standalone portrait — the fire of Rome, the artist-emperor, the fall of the dynasty (AD 68). (2021) ▶ YouTube

VI · Roman BritainAD 43–84

499–502 The Roman Conquest of Britain Claudius’s invasion, Caratacus, Boudica’s revolt (AD 60/61, “Boudicca’s Reign of Blood”), and Agricola’s march to the far north. (2025) ▶ YouTube

VII · The Flavians, Pompeii & JerusalemAD 66–96

— The Jews Against Rome (Parts 1–2) Judaea under Roman rule, the Great Revolt, and the siege and destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. (2022) ▶ YouTube
16 Pompeii An early bonus edition on the town and its rediscovery. (2021) ▶ YouTube
355 Roman Apocalypse: Pompeii 79 AD The eruption of Vesuvius, hour by hour. (2023) ▶ YouTube
369 The Colosseum: Rome’s Arena of Death The Flavian amphitheatre (opened AD 80), the games, and the gladiators. (2023) ▶ YouTube

VIII · Decline, Christianity & the Fall of the WestAD 96–476

156 When did the Roman Empire fall? The long decline — Alaric’s sack of Rome (410), Attila (452), and the deposition of Romulus Augustulus (476). ▶ YouTube
157 Byzantium and the Ghosts of Rome Rome’s survival in the East and the idea of Rome long after the western empire. (2022) ▶ YouTube

Constantine and Rome’s conversion to Christianity are handled mostly through Tom Holland’s Christianity strand — the Easter “Crucifixion” specials, the episodes on Paul, and The Rise of Christianity — rather than a dedicated Rome series.

Approximate where marked. The podcast keeps returning to Rome, so treat this as a spine, not a full index. For a complete, always-current list you can sort by era:
· trihexplorer.com — filter every episode by period, region or topic
· archive.therestishistory.com — the official-data timeline
· therestishistory.com/episodes — the full archive