Ancient epic narrator: John

Ancient epic narrator, sonorous, grand, and tragic

Prompt: A grand, authoritative male ancient-epic-narrator voice that speaks with the marble weight of empire. His deep, ceremonial baritone recounts the clash of legions and the fall of dynasties with sonorous grandeur, treating history as tragedy on a colossal scale. There's imperial gravity and a note of ruin in his tone. The voice of the sword-and-sandal epic. They built an empire meant to last a thousand years. It lasted longer. That was the tragedy.

Script: Rome did not fall in a day. That is the lie history tells to make the ending bearable. It fell the way a great tree dies: slowly, from the inside, its grandeur intact long after its heart had rotted through. The Caesars believed themselves gods; the Senate believed itself eternal.