Stella Duffy
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463 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Jun
Stella Duffy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But in those days, you just had to be brilliant and a martyr.
She died young and she looked after women and she was cool.
Does that maybe mean she was martyred or are they just playing fast and free with the rules?
Not as far as I know.
I mean, I think even Procopius would have put that in the book.
Yeah, actually, yeah.
No, he doesn't.
He doesn't get to be a saint.
He doesn't really get remembered.
He's not juicy like Nero or Caligula.
He really is this plodding nerd.
And he also gets blamed for losing the Roman Empire and then it becomes Byzantium and people get pissed off with him.
But it was falling apart before him.
And the whole world, as they knew it, was changing.
You know, they were expanding and they weren't able –
Good luck anybody who wants to hold, we've got the whole of North Africa and we've got all of Europe and now we're taking all of Asia and we'll go and fight the Persians.
And yet again, some Western arrogance believes that it can go into the mountains of Persia and find the people it needs and take over.
And that happened some years after she died.
So he kind of dies not much beloved.
The taxes are getting higher and higher to keep wars going on.
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