Introducing The History of Egypt Podcast
Please sit back and enjoy this extended podcast recommendation, an Introduction to the History of Egypt Podcast where Dominic will share a short tale with you. If you haven't yet come across the Histo...
6 Maj 20228min
52: Birth of the Delian League
Birth of the Delian League: Leagues in Greece were not a new concept, with many being in existence in one form or another. So, far the major leagues that we have followed have been the Peloponnesian ...
6 Maj 202243min
51: Cracks Appear
The Persian invasion of 480 BC had now been defeated with the victory over Xerxes land forces on the Greek Boeotian plains outside Plataea. While his navy was destroyed in Persian controlled lands bel...
22 Apr 202238min
50: Introducing Thucydides with Prof. James Romm
I find it very fitting that with this 50th episode we are now transitioning into a new phase of Greek history. A point that is often officially seen where the Archaic Age ends and the Classical Age st...
8 Apr 202252min
49: Miletos with Prof. Vanessa Gorman
The Greek city of Miletos in western Anatolia would be described by Herodotus as being the ornament of Ionia. This referring to the affluence of the city during the Archaic period and its position amo...
25 Mars 20221h 21min
48: Anatolia, Conflicts Continue
The Ionian Greeks along with their allies from Athens and Eretria had entered and burn Sardis, though they failed to take the Acropolis. They withdrew back to the coast where the Persian would catch u...
11 Mars 202243min
47: Anatolia, Revolt in the West
The words of the Delphic oracle had rung true, the rising empire founded by Cyrus the great, the Persians had just destroyed a mighty empire, in that of king Croesus and his Lydians. The Greeks of Ion...
25 Feb 202238min
46: Anatolia, West To Ionia
With the collapse of the Bronze Age the Hittite Empire which had dominated Anatolian lands would vanish from the world stage. Its presence and legacy would only be rediscovered in our modern times sho...
11 Feb 202238min
