The Story of Carbon Dioxide is the Story of Everything: Interview with Journalist Peter Brannen
Carbon dioxide is central to the story of Earth from its beginning more than 4 billion years ago all the way up to the present. Peter Brannen joins me to discuss his new book - The Story of CO2 Is the...
23 Okt 202542min
Living and Working in Imperial Babylonia
We don't usually think of the Neo-Babylonian Empire as one of the economic powerhouses of the ancient world, but this short-lived state actually oversaw one of the most stunning periods of economic gr...
16 Okt 202540min
The Ancient Economy from Assyria to Augustus
What was the ancient economy? Can we even speak of such a singular thing? Today, I introduce the next block of episodes on Tides, an in-depth examination of the cutting edge of knowledge on the ancien...
9 Okt 202540min
Interview with Dr. Owen Rees (Book, The Far Edges of the Known World releases 9/30/25)
The ancient world was a lot bigger than Greece and Rome. Dr. Owen Rees joins me to discuss his new book on this broader conception of antiquity - The Far Edges of the Known World - and we traverse the...
2 Okt 202547min
Thucydides, the Greatest Historian of All Time: Interview with Robin Waterfield and Professor Polly Low
Thucydides is perhaps the greatest historian to ever live, a man whose work on the Peloponnesian War has been read, digested, and debated for more than 2400 years. Robin Waterfield and Professor Polly...
25 Sep 202541min
The Celts Invade Greece
The Celts invaded Greece in 280-279 BC, an entirely unforeseen breakthrough of a nearly unknown people into the mainstream of the Hellenistic world. Tens of thousands of Celts poured through the passe...
11 Sep 202540min
Alexander's Successors and the Danube Frontier
While Alexander the Great's successors were fighting over control of his empire, Celtic-speaking migrants were moving east along the Danube River, mostly unseen and unnoticed by the Greeks to their so...
11 Sep 202541min
The First Cities North of the Alps: Interview with Professor Manuel Fernandez-Götz
The European Iron Age is known almost solely through archaeology, and the material record of the period is still showing us fascinating new aspects of ancient life. Professor Manuel Fernandez-Götz of ...
4 Sep 202541min
