Anita Anand

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5,917 appearances 33 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Empire: World History · 384. The Roman Invasion: Gods on Hadrian’s Wall (Ep 2) · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

Do we know anything more about the sacrifices? matched

Yeah, I mean, it's going to scare... matched

So this is where the paradox comes in for me, Eleanor, and maybe you can sort this out for me because Rome didn't like the Druids. matched

They were hostile to the Druids. matched

You've got them in Gaul being suppressed and you've got in Britain a banning of Druidic practice. matched

You've got Suetonius, as you just mentioned, marching to Anglesey to destroy the Druidic order. matched

But then you also do have, and this is where I get confused, legionaries on Hadrian's Wall making offerings. matched

to local Celtic deities, which is something that the Druids would have done too. matched

So what's that all about? matched

Right. matched

So I'm always really struck by this. matched

First of all, the ability to suck in every local belief system so that you don't feel so foreign to the people that you've invaded and you've conquered. matched

Is it more political or is it genuinely theistic where they think, we've got loads of gods, plenty of room on this bench, move over, we can pull a few more in or repurpose them? matched

I mean, what is the thinking? matched

Is it remarkable that we've got such detailed records of this? matched

I mean, because it was such a long time ago. matched

And as you say, it's sort of clash of civilisations. matched

One is the conqueror. matched

Normally conquerors obliterate everything that they've taken over. matched

But we have... matched

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