Dark Age and Archaic Greece

Part of Spartan History Podcast

With Paul Bardunias

Professor Paul Bardunias, co-author of Hoplites at War, traces hoplite warfare from its 8th century advent to the eve of the Persian wars through his three fundamentals: the men, the tools and the group.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

With Cezary Kucewicz, Philip Lindsay Powell

The team looks at Ancient Warfare Magazine VIII.2, on the Ionian Greeks, noting that outside Attica, Ionians lived on Euboea and the Cyclades, and settled in the central part of the west coast of Asia Minor.

Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)

Kagan credits the tyranny of the Peisistratids with seeding self-government, which Cleisthenes used to push Athens toward democracy by restructuring the tribes and empowering the assembly, then explains ostracism's role.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

With Paul Cartledge

Professor Paul Cartledge closes the Lycurgan Sparta arc with a summary of the archaic period's societal, political and religious reforms, in a conversation that at certain points got extremely academic and specific.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Michael Furman

Conversations: Michael Furman, professor of ancient Thebes and Boeotia, joins Liv to discuss the forgotten polis, its history and mythology, and pseudoarchaeological claims about the ancient city.

Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)

Kagan weighs the tyrannies of the Greek polis, crediting them with economic, commercial and artistic advances even as they ruled absolutely, and argues they broke the aristocracy's grip and raised the hoplite farmer.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

With Paul Rahe

Professor Paul Rahe, whose book The Spartan Regime focuses on the archaic formation of Spartan institutions, goes briefly back to the Bronze Age, then through the Dark Age and into the early Dorian migration into Laconia.

Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)

Kagan traces Sparta's distinct military culture to the subjugation of Messenia, whose people farmed while Spartans trained for war, then examines the education of the Spartan citizen and the Spartan constitution.

Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)

Kagan follows Athens through Cylon's failed coup and the Law of Draco to Solon's moderate reforms as sole archon, and on to the tyranny of Peisistratus, who still upheld Solon's laws.

Part of Young Heretics

Closing his series on Athenian democracy, Spencer Klavan tells the myth of King Erichthonius and the fraught relationship between Cleisthenes of Athens and King Cleomenes of Sparta, asking what it means to be equal before the law.

Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)

Kagan takes up the Homeric question, arguing Homer's poems blend memories from the Mycenaean world through the Dark Ages and can be read for historical evidence, then outlines the heroic ethic.

Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)

Kagan finishes the Spartan constitution, arguing Sparta had a mixed constitution and gained great power through alliances with its neighbors, then turns to Athens and its own constitution, ending with the hoplite class and Cylon's failed bid for tyranny.

Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)

Kagan traces the rise of Greek colonies mainly to the need for new farmland, describes where the Greeks settled, and ties the founding of each colony to the dynamics of a polis.

Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)

Kagan describes the hoplite phalanx, the Greeks' new style of warfare, detailing the soldier's panoply and fighting method, and argues the formation was almost invincible on the battlefield.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

How Sparta worked: the diarchy, gerousia, apella and ephors, the so-called Lykourgan land reform, helots, perioikoi and Spartan women, the stages of the agoge, and why the system ultimately failed.

Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)

Kagan sketches the Greek heroic code, where arete and honor are worth dying for, as Achilles shows, and traces how that world produced the rise of the polis.

Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)

Kagan traces the polis emerging from the Dark Ages, present already by the poet Hesiod's time as a community of justice, law and shared values, credited to the rise of the hoplite farmer.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Peisistratos and his sons Hippias and Hipparchos: warfare, trickery and political marriages, public works, the Greater Panathenaia and Dionysia, and the end through Hipparchos' assassination, Hippias' expulsion and the ascendency of Kleisthenes.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Jessica Romney

Jessica Romney's Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece (U Michigan Press, 2020) reads sympotic lyric for how Greek poets built group identity in martial poetry, in exile and in political verse.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Part two: the Sicilian tyrannies of the first half of the 5th century BC at Rhegium, Himera, Syracuse, Gela and Akragas, the First Greco-Punic War and its legacy, Etruscan decline in Campania, and the voyages of Himilco and Hanno.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode traces the beginnings of the Greek polis and the military developments that shaped it, describing the environment where Greek drama, architecture and philosophy reached their peak.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

By the middle of the 6th century Sparta, through her alliances the most powerful military force in Hellas, faces Argos, is asked for aid by King Croesus of Lydia, and invades Samos in 525 BCE to oust the tyrant Polycrates.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Greek emigration to the Chalkidiki, Thrace, the Hellespont, the Bosporus, the Black Sea and northern Africa in the 7th and 6th centuries BC, relations with Lydian and Saite Egyptian kings, and the development of coinage.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

Cleomenes the First held the Agiad throne of Sparta from around 520 to 490 BCE, ruling with an iron fist against co-king Demaratus while the Achaemenid Persian empire loomed before the Greco-Persian wars began.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv discusses Sappho, the real Greek poet, with Ellie and Alyse of the Sweetbitter podcast, drawing on Diane Rayor's translation of her poetry.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Leesa Charlotte

Liv speaks with Leesa Charlotte of the Sweetbitter podcast about Sappho's sexuality and the papyrology controversy you never knew you needed to hear about.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Early Lakedaimon: the 1st and 2nd Messenian Wars that brought about the helot system, reform supposedly by Lykourgos yet more likely gradual, losses to Argos and Tegea before defeating them, Chilon, and Sparta's rise to hegemony.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

New 6th-century BC thinking about existence and humanity's role in the universe absent from the gods, and the lives and theories of the so-called Pre-Socratics, from Thales and Anaximandros to Pythagoras, Xenophanes and Heraklitos.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Early Athens from its myths, Kekrops, the contest of Athena and Poseidon, Erichthonios, Theseus and Kodras, to oligarchy after the monarchy, the crises of the late 7th century BC, Kylon's failed tyranny attempt and Drakon's constitution.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Solon as sole archon, whose economic, political and legal reforms later formed the backbone of Athenian democracy, and whose moderate stance did not quiet the social and economic problems, after which factionalism set in and, ultimately, tyranny.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

The team discusses magazine issue XVI.2, The Coming of the Hoplite, on the changes across the seventh through fifth centuries BC that led to the fully developed 'Classical' Greek hoplite phalanx of shields, spears and bronze.

Part of Ancient Greece: City and Society

Gillian Shepherd examines the so-called Dark Ages after the fall of Mycenaean civilisation, and the 8th century changes in overseas contact and the Greek alphabet that earned the period the name Greek Renaissance.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Part two on the archaic poets: Mytilene in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BC, where Alkaios, Sappho, tyranny and Pittakos, one of the so-called Seven Sages, meet, and the lawgiver as a response in many city-states.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd surveys Dark Age Greece after the Mycenaean collapse around 1200 BC, from finds at Lefkandi and 9th century burials in Athens to the alphabet borrowed from the Phoenicians in the 8th century BC.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Kleisthenes defeats the Spartan-backed Isagoras and overhauls the constitution: the boule and ekklesia, Attika gerrymandered into new tribes, a reorganized military, a first diplomatic folly with Persia, and the threat of war with Thebes, Korinth, Sparta, Chalcis and Aigina.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Part one on Greco-Etruscan-Carthaginian relations in the 6th and 5th centuries BC: Carthage's foundation myths, Tyre's decline and Carthage's rise, its alliance with the Etruscans against the western Greeks, and the Battle of Alalia.

Part of Epic Greek History

The 8th century BCE, justly called the Greek Renaissance: an increase in population, an upswing in economic activity, monumental temples, the start of the Olympic Games and the Greeks adapting a Phoenician alphabet into a writing system.

Part of Tides of History

With Lieve Donnellan

The episode presents Dr. Lieve Donnellan's use of network theory to study southern Italy and the Greek world in the Iron Age, offering fascinating and innovative ways of understanding the ancient Mediterranean.

Part of Ancient Greece: City and Society

Gillian Shepherd traces 7th and 6th century Athens, when the Agora emerged as its administrative and commercial heart, through three upheavals: the reforms of Solon, the tyranny of Peisistratos and the rise of democracy.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Archaeological evidence for the early Dark Age of the 11th and 10th centuries BC, particularly at Nichoria in Messenia, emigration to the Aegean islands and Anatolia, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as insight into that society.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The four Panhellenic festivals, Olympic, Pythian, Isthmian and Nemean, and their unifying importance, the evolving Olympic programme, how the events were performed, and some famous athletes with larger-than-life qualities.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode covers the Early Iron Age in Greece, traditionally labeled a dark age for the economic decline after the Mycenaean palaces fell and for its scarcer archaeological record.

Part of In Our Time

The lower orders of society were ravaged by debt in Solon's Athens, to the point where some were being forced into slavery.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

With the most powerful military in Greece by around 550 BCE, Sparta forged the Peloponnesian League, a fortress that was also a prison for the Helots, and became Hegemon over the largest army since the mythical Trojan war.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode covers Pisistratus seizing power twice and losing it before establishing an autocratic regime in Athens that lasted more than thirty-five years and improved city infrastructure.

Part of The Ancients

With C. Brian Rose

The real King Midas ruled the Phrygian Kingdom in west central Turkey between 740 and 700 BCE; Professor Brian Rose discusses the historical and mythical sides of Midas, the Golden Touch myth's origins, and his excavations at Gordian.

Part of Gresham College Lectures

With Melissa Lane

Melissa Lane explores the popular uprising of 508 BCE that overthrew foreign invaders in Athens, after which Kleisthenes reorganised the political system into what became Athenian democracy.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Why Greeks colonized, from population growth to civil strife, their settlement of southern Italy, Sicily, France, Spain, Corsica and Sardinia, the trireme, and tensions with Etruscans and Carthaginians until around 550 BC.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Archaic innovation in the 7th and 6th centuries BC: Orientalizing, Korinthian, black-figure and red-figure vase painting, kouros and kore statuary and reliefs, and Doric and Ionic temples, treasuries and stoas.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode defines the Greek term tyrannos as an autocrat who seized power by overthrowing an existing regime, tracing the rise of such rulers across the seventh and sixth centuries BCE.

Part of Ad Navseam

Hesiod's Theogony, close to a canonical creation myth from about 700 BC, explains where the gods and universe come from, with two Aphrodites and Kronos angling for a role.

Part of Ancient Greece: City and Society

Gillian Shepherd traces the fall of the Peisistratid tyranny and the reforms of Kleisthenes, using the Agora and the Pnyx as evidence for a government that gave power to an unusually wide section of the population.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode covers the contest for power after the tyrant Hippias was expelled, between Isagoras, a conservative aristocrat who favored a narrow oligarchy, and Cleisthenes of the Alcmaeonid clan, who drew support from the people by proposing radical democratic reforms.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

With Josho Brouwers

Jasper and the team are joined by Josho Brouwers to discuss warfare in Archaic Greece, covering the phalanx, how it might have functioned, the suitability of the geography for this kind of fighting, and why the cities fought one another.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Naoise Mac Sweeney

Naoíse Mac Sweeney, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna, discusses her ERC-funded project Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World, whose first volume covers local migration from about 1200 to 550 BCE.

Part of Ad Navseam

Hesiod's Works and Days, from around 700 BC, asks whether he rivals Homer while covering the justice of Zeus, the myth of Pandora and the five ages of mankind.

Part of Gresham College Lectures

With Edith Hall

Edith Hall traces the birth of physics around 600 BCE in Greek cities near Miletus, through the pioneering theories of Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras and Democritus.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Tyranny in the 7th and 6th centuries BC through four Peloponnesian case studies: Pheidon of Argos, Kypselos and Periandros of Korinth, Kleisthenes of Sikyon, and Theogenes of Megara, the unsuccessful attempt.

Part of Epic Greek History

Athens at the start of the 6th century BCE, where Draco's law code did nothing for the crushing debt of the poor, and the Athenians gave Solon full powers to solve the economic crisis and reorganize the state.

Part of Ad Navseam

The eighth-century BC Dipylon Vase has every inch of its surface covered, with a funeral scene dominating it, and the episode asks what drives a culture toward that fear of the empty space.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Early Greek religion as Homer and Hesiod formalized it, the earliest sanctuaries and hero cults of the 8th century BC, and Panhellenism at Olympia, Delos, Delphi and Dodona, the latter two with oracular shrines.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode dates Greek colonization to the eighth century BCE, when settlements in southern Italy and Sicily grew numerous enough for the region to be called Magna Graecia.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Adam Schwartz

Dr Adam Schwartz of the University of Copenhagen returns to discuss how an alphabet reached Greece after centuries without written evidence, bringing literacy with it.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Saro Wallace

Dr Saro Wallace, a Senior Research Fellow at the Gerda Henkel Research Foundation, explains what life on Crete looked like in the Iron Age that followed the Bronze Age.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Paul Cartledge

Emeritus Professor Paul Cartledge of the University of Cambridge discusses commerce in archaic Greece; the description names that subject and nothing further, seventeen words in total.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

Within a century Sparta's four villages on the Eurotas grow into a Peloponnesian powerhouse through aggressive expansion, unlike the colonisation other Greek cities chose, culminating in the 20 year first Messenian war.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The demos and the oikos in the late Dark Age, their unification through synoikismos into the polis, and later Greek philosophical thought on what it meant to live in a polis.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

A biography of Lycurgus, a liminal figure between the dark and archaic ages whose status even an early Delphic oracle doubted, with his achievements as lawmaker and an attempt to debunk the more outlandish events of his legend.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

Sparta's 6th and 7th century government blended Monarchic, Aristocratic and Democratic rule: kings descended from Heracles, a council of elders, a citizen assembly for ratification, and five annually elected Ephors drawn from the Demos.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

This Hermes Historia segment covers Greek colonization efforts abroad during the 6th century BC.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The late Dark Age at Lefkandi and Athens, reconnection with the Near East through the Phoenicians, the Greek alphabet and its impact, trading posts at El-Mina, Pithekoussai and Kyme, and Geometric vase painting in funerals.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

The team discusses magazine issue 106, Greece in the late Archaic period, asking who fought in bronze helmets, greaves, armour and bronze-faced shields, next to whom, and how.

Part of Tides of History

The episode asks how dark Greece's so-called Dark Age truly was after the Bronze Age Collapse, when the palaces were gone, long-distance trade declined, crafts became much simpler and fewer people lived in Greece than during the Mycenaean period.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

Sparta consolidates her 7th century hold on Messenia, building two temples from war wealth before a crushing defeat by the Argives sparks the second Messenian war, a conflict the poet Tyrtaeus is largely believed to have helped turn.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Oligarchia and aristokratia replacing the waning basileis, the divide between nobles and commoners brought on by a spike in population, and Hesiod's Works and Days as life in the emerging polis seen by an ordinary citizen.

Part of Tides of History

The episode dates Greece as an unremarkable corner of the Aegean in 800 BC, tracing a century in which its population exploded, cities emerged, long-distance trade boomed, and the first overseas colonies were founded.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

In the early archaic phase, Sparta's pious religious calendar of festivals and dualistic deities is traced, from Herodotus's claim about faith in the gods to the reciprocal bond between the Delphic oracle and Sparta.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Athens from a small settlement on a rocky outcrop over 5000 years ago, through the Bronze Age collapse it survived relatively intact, to Draco and Solon, looked back to as founders of changes toward democracy.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The unstable road to Athenian democracy: faction fighting, the tyranny of Peisistratus and his sons, the despotic rule of Hippias until his removal with Spartan help, and the institutions that evolved under Cleisthenes.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode traces Sparta extending influence in the Peloponnese from an attempted conquest of Arcadian Tegea into a policy of alliances, while Athens transformed under Solon and Pisistratus.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Poetry of the 7th and 6th centuries BC moving from grand epic to lyric, elegiac and iambic forms, and the first of two parts on poets whose writing gives insight into how archaic Greece was reshaped.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Corinth from its earliest times on the isthmus to the rule of the Bacchiadae clan, the first mainland tyranny under Cypselus, Periander counted among the seven sages, and the end of the tyranny in the third generation.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This episode traces the rise of tyrants and the changing political situation in Sicily between 600BC and the mid-5th century BC, an episode packed with treachery, conquest and even some poetry.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The institutions that made Sparta stand out, shaped partly by dealings with its neighbours, leading to one of the most militarised cities in Greece, one the ancients were fascinated by and some even admired.

Part of Epic Greek History

Fragments of early Greek poets as real-time commentary on the social and political upheaval of the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, when no one was writing history, through Theognis of Megara and Alcaeus of Mytilene.

Part of Chronicles of Ancient Greece

The episode covers Magna Graecia, as colonies are founded all over the Mediterranean.

Part of Ancient History Hound

The first of this Sicily miniseries opens with the island's original inhabitants before Greeks and Phoenicians arrive to found colonies there, examining what form these settlements initially took.

Part of Ancient History Hound

At the start of the 6th century BC Athens was in crisis, and by its end a new political system was in place, with bizarre political campaigning, Spartans and tyrants along the way.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The Greek world emerges from the dark ages into a re-birth with new advances refined for centuries; a correction notes the traditional date for the first Olympics is 776 BC, where the episode said 778.

Part of Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

Lycurgus gives Sparta its laws, transforming the polis into a warrior society that would go on to produce the most fearsome soldiers of the ancient world.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Sappho, a real poet of the island of Lesbos known as the Tenth Muse, supplies the origin of the terms Lesbian and Sapphic in this account of a woman who loved both men and women.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This episode examines what a tyrant was and how one rose to power, surveying examples from the Archaic period to the mid-5th century BC using James McGlew's account of tyranny.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Sparta comes into existence out of the Dark Ages through the union of surrounding villages and the conquering of nearby regions, and develops a unique social and political system far different from the rest of Greece.

Part of Epic Greek History

Cleomenes I of Sparta, whom others have called the most powerful Greek of the sixth century BCE: the victory over Argos, the repeated attempts to meddle in Athenian politics, the feud with his co-king Demaratus. Herodotus heads the suggested reading.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode credits the Milesians Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes with searching for rational principles to explain the natural world while Athens set up a new constitution under Solon.

Part of Kings and Generals

Between the fall of Mycenaean Greece and the rise of the poleis lies the Geometric Age, roughly 1100 to 700 BCE, when Greek communities migrated across Asia Minor and Cyprus and had contact with the Phoenicians.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After the collapse the Mycenaean palaces lie in ruins and the archaeological record shows regression and depopulation, though progress over time also appears, leading the Greek world back into the light.

Part of Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

Solon, Athens's original wise man, offers prudent laws meant to keep the city from disintegrating into civil conflict, picking up the story after Theseus.

Part of Chronicles of Ancient Greece

The episode has the Greeks wake from their Dark Ages slumber to new ideas, iron weapons, and a new form of community: the Polis.

Part of Garner's Greek Mythology

After almost 60 episodes on the golden years of ancient Greece and the end of worship of the gods, Patrick Garner goes back to the so-called Dark Ages of Greece, when the gods first revealed themselves to humans.

Part of Chronicles of Ancient Greece

The episode connects a Phoenician prince who plants dragon teeth and grows an army to the unexpected arrival of the alphabet in ancient Greece.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

An Orientalizing period pyxis at the Art Institute of Chicago, with Near Eastern influence on developing Greek civilization, the strategic importance of Corinth, the Temple of Artemis at Corfu and the famed Lion's Gate of ancient Mycenae.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

The Greek city-states of the Peninsula and Asia Minor emerge from the post-Mycenaean dark ages, become powerful centers of intellectual and military tradition, and come into conflict with Persia and with one another.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

A marble youth from ancient Athens, the so-called Metropolitan Kouros of about 590 to 580 BC, shows how the early Greek kouros type borrowed directly from Egyptian statuary.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

Artwork from the Orientalizing and Archaic periods and the climate that gave rise to Greek sculpture, with Greece's contact with Egypt during the Saite Dynasty, the Greek colony of Naukratis and Egyptian and Near Eastern influences.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio) · Art and culture of the ancient Mediterranean; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio) · Art and culture of the ancient Mediterranean; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of The History of Ancient Greece · The long chronological run, from the Stone Age forward

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast · Panel discussions from Ancient Warfare Magazine; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Paul Bardunias

Part of Spartan History Podcast · Steven on Sparta alone, in order, 2019 to 2023

Part of HistoryExtra podcast · Conversations with historians, six a week; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Michael Scott

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · Liv Albert on Greek myths and the wider ancient Mediterranean, told casually and with sarcasm; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Julia Perroni

Part of Tides of History · Patrick Wyman's survey of the deep past; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Alex Knodell

Part of Tides of History · Patrick Wyman's survey of the deep past; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Tides of History · Patrick Wyman's survey of the deep past; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Epic Greek History · From Mycenaean kings through the Persian invasions, one full and one short episode a month

Part of Epic Greek History · From Mycenaean kings through the Persian invasions, one full and one short episode a month

Part of History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps · Peter Adamson on the whole history of philosophy; only the ancient Greek run is indexed

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · Liv Albert on Greek myths and the wider ancient Mediterranean, told casually and with sarcasm; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Epic Greek History · From Mycenaean kings through the Persian invasions, one full and one short episode a month