Tonight, drift through the entire history of ancient Rome — the whole rise and fall of the greatest empire the western world has ever known, from two abandoned infants and a she-wolf by a river, to the last emperor deposed twelve hundred years later. This is a long, calm journey through all of it, made to carry you gently into sleep: the founding and the kings, the birth of the Republic, Hannibal and his elephants crossing the Alps, Caesar at the Rubicon, Augustus and the birth of the Empire, the mad emperors, the Colosseum and the chariot races, the roads and aqueducts, the long crisis, the barbarians, and the final fall — and the eastern half that survived for another thousand years. A bedtime story for grown-ups, told softly in the dark. No tension, nothing to follow — just the slow unfolding of a whole civilization, made for falling asleep. 🌙 Travel with the Nightfarer through the lost world of the ancient past. New sleep journeys regularly — subscribe so you don't miss the next night.