Episode 18 (S2E1): The First-Called at the Bosphorus (38 AD to 52 AD)

Season 2 Episode 1: The First-Called at the Bosphorus (38 AD to 52 AD).

Before it was an imperial capital, Byzantium was a small city of harbors, tolls, and passing ships — useful, quiet, and easy to overlook. This episode follows a fragile tradition rooted in whispered stories and lamplit rooms, tracing the arrival of a wandering figure, the slow formation of an unseen community, and the power of memory in a place that left almost no records of itself. Moving between silence and belief, empire and obscurity, we explore how a forgotten city begins to imagine a past — just as Rome starts, ever so slightly, to take notice.

Franz Gordon, Hanna Ekström, Anna Dager / Boxes of Memories / courtesy of ⁠⁠⁠www.epidemicsound.com⁠⁠⁠.

Gavin Luke / Crucial Calculations / courtesy of ⁠⁠www.epidemicsound.com⁠⁠.

Gavin Luke / Inner Spaces / courtesy of ⁠www.epidemicsound.com⁠⁠⁠.

Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen / Of Sober Mind / courtesy of ⁠⁠www.epidemicsound.com⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Silver Maple / Av Jord Till Jord / courtesy of ⁠⁠www.epidemicsound.com⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Anthony Earls / Ancient Dream / courtesy of ⁠⁠⁠www.epidemicsound.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.