S1E9: Recap and Dawn of Archaic Period (3000 BC to 800 BC)

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 o...

8 Jan 37min

Season 1 Episode 17 (Season Finale)As Rome rises and the ancient Mediterranean is reshaped, every road seems to draw closer to one narrow strait. In this episode, the city weaves its way through Galat...

15 Des 202551min

S1E16 - Alexander the Great and the Diadochi (338 BC to 300 BC)In this episode, Byzantion stands at the edge of a world being violently reborn. Alexander rises like a storm from the West, only to vani...

4 Des 202544min

S1E15 - The Rise of Macedon (404 BC to 338 BC)This episode follows Byzantion through an age when the Greek world was cracking under its own rivalries and a new power was rising in the north. As allian...

25 Nov 202538min

S1E14 - The Aegean Tug-of-War (478 BC to 404 BC)In this episode, Byzantion stands on the knife-edge, a glittering prize caught in the long, grinding duel between Athens and Sparta. From 478 to 404 BC,...

18 Nov 202538min

S1E13 - Byzantion in the Shadow of Persia (513 BC to 478 BC)After Darius’ pontoon bridge spanned the Bosporus, Byzantion was drawn into the great currents of empire — and so was Niketas, a young citiz...

6 Nov 202539min

S1E12: The Silent Years from Byzantion's Founding to Darius' Crossing (667 BC to 513 BC)For more than a century after its founding, Byzantion lived in quiet balance — a small city suspended between co...

31 Okt 202529min

S1E11 - Founding of Byzantion (Later Constantinople) Part 2In this episode, we turn from the act of Byzantion’s founding to the way that founding was remembered. Herodotus gives us the first glimpse, ...

14 Okt 202558min