HeyJaredFoundations of Rome
From myths to modernity, a journey through the Eternal CityThis series explores the history of Rome from its legendary beginnings to its place in the modern imagination.
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Episode 17: Mussolini’s Rome – Fascism and the Legacy of Empire (opens the original)
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Rome has always been a city built upon its past. But under Benito Mussolini, that past became something to be reshaped, weaponised, and placed at the service of a modern dictatorship. In this episode, we explore how Mussolini transformed the Eternal City into a stage for Fascist ideology—from the cult of Romanità and the construction of the Via dei Fori Imperiali, to the monumental architecture of EUR and the political appropriation of figures like Julius Caesar and Augustus.Behind the marble, m
Episode 16: Revolution and Reaction – Rome Between Republics (opens the original)
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What happens when a city shaped by centuries of papal power suddenly finds itself caught in the currents of revolution? In this episode, we follow Rome through the upheavals of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—from Napoleon’s invasion and the short-lived Roman Republic of 1798 to restoration, Romanticism, and the revolutionary struggles of 1849. We meet figures such as Mazzini and Garibaldi, and explore how the ruins of ancient Rome became symbols of liberty, resistance, and national
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