Sicily and the Making of the Greek Mediterranean
In the space of just a few decades toward the end of the 8th century BC, Greek colonies sprang up across across southern Italy and Sicily. These new foundations would become the heart of the Greek wor...
30 Mars 20230s
How Data Happened: Professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones on the History of Data
Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones, authors of the new book How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms, join Patrick to discuss the history of data, why enumerating thin...
23 Mars 20230s
Who Were the Phoenicians? Interview with Professor Carolina Lopez-Ruiz
Despite their obvious importance to understanding the Iron Age and Classical Mediterranean, the Phoenicians remain something of an enigma. Professor Carolina Lopez-Ruiz is one of the world's leading e...
16 Mars 20230s
The Roots of Archaic Greece
In the year 800 BC, Greece was an unremarkable corner of the Aegean. Over the next century, however, it underwent a remarkable transformation. Greece's population exploded, cities came into being, lon...
9 Mars 20230s
The Phoenician Mediterranean
Soon after 1000 BC, Phoenicians began to take ever-longer voyages away from their homeland. Within just a few decades, they were already present at the far end of the Mediterranean and even further, p...
2 Mars 20230s
The Emergence of Phoenicia
Few places weathered the Bronze Age Collapse better than the Levant, the strip of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean that runs from Syria to Egypt. One small part of that coastline, mostly in wh...
23 Feb 20230s
How to Write Historical Fiction | Interview with historian and author Dan Jones on his new novel Essex Dogs
Every historian I know has a secret dream of writing historical fiction, but few ever do it. Dan Jones, a longtime friend of Tides of History and an outstanding historian, has actually done it: Essex ...
16 Feb 20230s
Greece's Dark Age
After the Bronze Age Collapse, Greece changed dramatically. The palaces were gone, long-distance trade declined, and crafts became much simpler. Most of all, there were fewer people living in Greece t...
9 Feb 20230s
