Italy Before Rome: Interview with Dr. Kathryn Lomas
What was Italy like during the period of Rome's rise to power? Dr. Kathryn Lomas, author of The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars, joins me to discuss the fascinating history of Italy ...
8 Aug 20241h
Summer Mailbag! Patrick Answers Your Questions
It's time for another mailbag! Patrick answers questions about the Axial Age, the best places to see Iron Age archaeology, and how to be a discerning consumer of history.Patrick's book is now availabl...
1 Aug 202448min
The Aftermath of the Peloponnesian War and the March of the 10,000 Greeks
The famous Greco-Persian Wars didn't mark the end of the relationship between Persia and Greece, but its beginning. For the next 150 years, the seemingly internal politics of the Greek world became in...
25 Jul 202441min
The Samnites and the Alternative to Rome
We tend to think of Rome's rise to power in Italy as inevitable, but it was far from guaranteed. Their most fearsome enemies within the Italian peninsula were the Samnites, hill-people from the mounta...
18 Jul 202443min
Summer Reading Recommendations
It's summer, which means it's time for some pleasure reading! Here are seven books that Patrick is recommending for your next summer reads:1) Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral Hi...
11 Jul 202439min
The Roman Conquest of Italy
At the beginning of the 4th century BC, Rome was still not the dominant force in Latium, the small region surrounding the city; by the end of that century, Rome was the dominant power in all of Italy....
4 Jul 202442min
The Great Gender Divergence: Interview with Dr. Alice Evans
Gender is one of the fundamental forces structuring our world, but its impact is uneven in time and space. Dr. Alice Evans joins me to talk about the enormous strides toward gender equality that have ...
27 Jun 202451min
Rome's Patrician Republic
By 450 BC, the Roman Republic was beginning to take on the outlines of a form we recognize, with elected magistrates, a Senate, and written laws. But these were hard times for Rome, and there was no g...
20 Jun 202444min
