The Real-Life King Arthur May Have Been a Roman Equestrian Who Served Marcus Aurelius

History Unplugged Podcast · Mar 28, 2023 · 47m

King Arthur. The search for the historical figure behind what is arguably the most famous cycle of legends ever has been relentless over the centuries. Many think he was a Romano-British military commander in the 5th/6th centuries who fought the Anglo-Saxons and saved Britain in its infancy. But other historians put the real-life Arthur at a much earlier date, arguing that the man whose story started the traditions of Arthur was a soldier name Lucius Artorius Castus who lived at the end of the second century A.D.

There are enough historical clues to reconstruct Castus’s extraordinary, which…