{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/b5fe8d16-7518-4208-861b-e1ec5ce88192/6931ba227b164d34d8294163?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Little Atoms 978 - Harry Sidebottom's Those Who Are About To Die","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60ed7797f1734ba0e93d0e59/1764866407024-6575de82-7b49-40b4-8f7f-259ff38c8789.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Harry Sidebottom&nbsp;teaches classical history at Oxford University, and is the bestselling author of fifteen novels. His debut trade non-fiction book,&nbsp;<em>The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome</em>, was published in 2022 and was a Book of the Year in the&nbsp;<em>Spectator</em>, the&nbsp;<em>Financial Times</em>&nbsp;and BBC History. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book <em>Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind</em>.</p>","author_name":"Neil Denny"}