Century 4 of 13 · 479 - 386 BC

Classical Athens and Sparta

The Parthenon, the plague, Thucydides, and twenty-seven years of war between them.

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The Parthenon, the plague, Thucydides, and twenty-seven years of war between Athens and Sparta.

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110 Xenophon and "The Ten Thousand"The History of Ancient Greece · 2h 40mXenophon, ca. 428-354 BC, Athenian military leader, philosopher, historian and pupil of Sokrates, and the Panhellenic campaign into the Persian Empire that his Anabasis made famous, including Kounaxa and the March of the Ten Thousand.112 Ah War, Here We Go AgainThe History of Ancient Greece · 2h 35mThe first three years of the Korinthian War, 395-393 BC: the Persian-backed alliance of Thebes, Korinth, Argos and Athens, Lysandros killed at Haliartos, Nemea and Koroneia, Konon's naval victory at Knidos, and Athens rebuilding its navy and Long Walls.The SpartansThe Spartans · 2h 35mBettany Hughes presents this three-part documentary series on the Spartans, first broadcast on Channel 4 in 2002 before airing on ABC Australia and PBS in the United States.

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2h 40m110 Xenophon and "The Ten Thousand" The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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Xenophon, ca. 428-354 BC, Athenian military leader, philosopher, historian and pupil of Sokrates, and the Panhellenic campaign into the Persian Empire that his Anabasis made famous, including Kounaxa and the March of the Ten Thousand.

2h 35m112 Ah War, Here We Go Again The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The first three years of the Korinthian War, 395-393 BC: the Persian-backed alliance of Thebes, Korinth, Argos and Athens, Lysandros killed at Haliartos, Nemea and Koroneia, Konon's naval victory at Knidos, and Athens rebuilding its navy and Long Walls.

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With Bettany Hughes

Bettany Hughes presents this three-part documentary series on the Spartans, first broadcast on Channel 4 in 2002 before airing on ABC Australia and PBS in the United States.

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2h 19m103 An Oligarchic Coup The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The years 411 and 410 BC: the final treaty between Sparta and Tissaphernes, Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusai, Athens in civil war for the first time in nearly a century as the 400 overthrow the democracy, and factionalism bringing them down.

2h 18m111 The Spartan Hegemony The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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Spartan imperial policy from 404-396 BC: Lysandros' overreach and downfall, Agesilaos II taking the throne, Kinadon's foiled revolution, and an ultimately ineffective invasion of Persian-controlled Asia Minor, a consequence of which was a Persian-bankrolled fleet under Konon.

2h 14m106 Frustrations and Poor Decisions (Part II) The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The years 409 to 406 BC: Athenian control of the Hellespont and Bosporos, Alkibiades' triumphant return, Lysandros and his bromance with Kyros, defeat at Notion, Kallikratidas beating Konon at Mytilene, and Arginousai with its disastrous consequences for Athens.

2h 06m095 The Greek World Turned Upside Down The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The years 426 and 425 BC: Athenian politics dominated by the demagogue Kleon, his feud with Aristophanes in The Acharnians and The Knights, the battles of Pylos and Sphakteria, and the brutal conclusion to the Korkyraean civil war.

1h 51m098 The Peace Unravels The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The years 421 to 418 BC: the breakdowns of the Peace of Nikias, the rise of Alkibiades, Sparta at odds with dissident allies, the quadruple alliance of Athens, Argos, Mantineia and Eleia, and the decisive Spartan victory at Mantineia.

1h 51mConversations: Even Women Had Names, Athenian Women (Without Husbands) w/ Katherine Backler Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient MediterraneanPodcast

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With Katherine Backler

Katherine Backler discusses the lives and lore of the real women of ancient Athens, from the beautifully mundane to the righteously remembered.

1h 50m101 Disaster in Sicily The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The year 413 BC: Archelaos rises to the Makedonian throne, Sparta establishes Dekeleia, the Athenian army and navy are defeated at Syracuse, and the Athenian retreat and surrender bring the Sicilian Expedition to an end.

1h 47m089 The Breakdown of Peace The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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Athenian interests in the west and northeast in the mid-5th century BC, from Thourii to Amphipolis, growing hostility with Makedon, and the breakdown of the Thirty Years' Peace, including the Samian Revolt and the battles of Leukimme and Sybota.

1h 45mConversations: The Politics of Mythology, Foreigners & Party Girls of Classical Athens w/ Dr Rebecca Futo Kennedy Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient MediterraneanPodcast

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With Rebecca Futo Kennedy

Conversations: Rebecca Futo Kennedy joins Liv to discuss the politics behind Theseus' mythology, the rights of foreigners in Athens across different periods, and how women fit into that picture.

1h 42m104 The Democratic Empire Strikes Back The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The years 411 and 410 BC: the naval war shifting to the Hellespont, the Athenian democracy at Samos pressing on with victories at Kynossema and Kyzikos, radical democracy restored at Athens, and the switch from Thoukydides to Xenophon's Hellenika.

1h 41m096 Athens on the Offensive The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The years 423 to 421 BC: the succession struggle after Artaxerxes that ends with Dareios II, Brasidas' Thrakian and Makedonian campaign, Aristophanes' Wasps and Peace, and the deaths of Brasidas and Kleon at Amphipolis, culminating in the Peace of Nikias.

1h 41m102 Livin' on a (Persian) Prayer The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The years 413 and 412 BC: Athens responding to the Sicilian Disaster, devastation of Attic agriculture from Dekeleia, the end of the "friendship" between Athens and Persia, a Spartan navy and revolts among Athens' subject-allies, and treaties with Tissaphernes.

1h 41mDamon and Pythias Film

Directed by Curtis Bernhardt, this 1962 Italian-American film, titled Il tiranno di Siracusa on its Italian release, is based on the Greek legend of Damon and Pythias and set during the reign of Dionysius I of Syracuse.

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1h 37mClassical Greece Professor Kozlowski LecturesPodcast

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Professor Kozlowski reaches the Classical Age of Greece, sketching the role of Homer's epics in Greek culture: the self-identity of Athens and Sparta, the debt of tragedy to epic, philosophers' reactions and the development of myth into history.

1h 36mConversations: For the Love of a Good Man, Gays in the Ancient Greek Military w/ H. Voss Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient MediterraneanPodcast

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With H. Voss

Writer H. Voss discusses queer relationships within the ancient Greek military alongside Virgil's Roman story of Nisus and Euryalus.

1h 33m092 The End of an Era (Part II) The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The years 430-429 BC: a failed Spartan invasion of Zakynthos, Phormio's naval victories at Rhion and Naupaktos, the Athenian debacle at Spartolos, the end of the Potidaia siege, the deaths of Perikles and Phormio, and a Thrakian invasion of Makedonia.

1h 30mAge of Empires 2: Part 3: The Peloponnesian War Greeced LightningPodcast

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Sara and Sam close their Age of Empires 2 series with the Peloponnesian War, covering optimistic peace agreements, ancient plague and a look back on the highlights of Season 3.

1h 27m090 The Road to War The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The Potidaia revolt and the Megarian embargo of 433/2 BC, which led Perikles to claim he could see war coming out of the Peloponnesos, the speeches on the eve of war, and both sides' resources and aims.

1h 27mConversations: Who's This "Sophocles" Everyone's Talking About? Sophoclean Tragedy w/ Dr. Amy Pistone Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient MediterraneanPodcast

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With Amy Pistone

Dr. Amy Pistone argues that Sophocles matches or exceeds Euripides, weighing plays including The Women of Trachis, Oedipus Tyrannos, Ajax and Philoctetes.

1h 24m105 Carthage Enters the War The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The Second Greco-Punic War, 410-406 BC: Hannibal Mago's two invasions of Sicily and the destruction of Selinus, Himera and Akragas, Hermocrates' rebellion, Dionysius rising as tyrant of Syracuse, and a ceasefire leaving Carthage and Syracuse strongest.

1h 20mCLCV 205 - Lecture 18 - The Peloponnesian War, Part I (cont.) Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)Lecture

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Kagan describes Athens sending peace signals such as the Panhellenic venture to found Thurii, until Corinth and Corcyra clash over Epidamnus and Athens, risking Sparta's anger, settles on a defensive alliance with Corcyra.

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1h 15m107 Sparta Triumphant The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The final two years of the war, 405 and 404 BC: Aristophanes' Frogs, Lysandros rebuilding the Peloponnesian fleet and crushing the Athenians at Aigospotamoi, the blockade of Athens and the Peiraieus, and the surrender and peace terms.

1h 15mCLCV 205 - Lecture 19 - The Peloponnesian War, Part II Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)Lecture

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Kagan argues the Peloponnesian War was not inevitable, crediting Pericles with a policy of deterrence aimed at peace, and calls Thucydides a revisionist historian pursuing the case that Athens was a democracy in name only.

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1h 15mCLCV 205 - Lecture 22 - The Struggle for Hegemony in Fourth-Century Greece (cont.) Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)Lecture

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Kagan traces Thebes, Argos, Corinth and Athens joining to check Sparta in the Corinthian War, a stalemate after which Persia, fearing Athenian naval power, allied with Sparta to bring about the King's Peace, breaking every alliance except the Peloponnesian League.

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1h 14mMarch of the Ten Thousand Ancient Warfare PodcastPodcast

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With Roel Konijnendijk

Josho, Murray and Lindsay are joined by Roel Konijnendijk to discuss issue VII.5 on the March of the Ten Thousand, documented by Xenophon, a young Athenian expatriate who rose to senior command among the Hellenic survivors of Cyrus' mercenary army.

1h 14mFall of Sparta The AncientsPodcast

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With Roel Konijnendijk, Owen Rees

Fresh from its victory over Athens in 404, Sparta stood unrivalled, yet within decades its power was shattered; Tristan Hughes, Dr Roel Konijnendijk and Dr Owen Rees chronicle Sparta's catastrophic collapse in the fourth century BC against Thebes and Corinth.

1h 14mCLCV 205 - Lecture 17 - The Peloponnesian War, Part I Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)Lecture

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Kagan traces the lead-up to the Peloponnesian War, arguing that rising Athenian power challenged Spartan dominance without making war inevitable, and credits the arbitration clause of the Thirty Years Peace as the key to avoiding it.

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1h 13mCLCV 205 - Lecture 16 - Athenian Democracy (cont.) Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)Lecture

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Kagan examines the Athenian judicial system built to limit tampering while maximizing citizen participation, then turns to the role of women in Athens through two kinds of sources, and finally to slaves.

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1h 11m091 Attrition and Plague The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The first year and a half of the war, 431-430 BC: the Theban sneak attack on Plataia that began it, Peloponnesian raids on Attika, Athenian naval raids, alliance with Odrysian Thrake, Perikles' funeral oration, and a deadly plague.

1h 11mConversations: Textual Ghosts, The Intersection of Athenian Autochthony and Disability, w/ Justin Lorenzo Biggi Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient MediterraneanPodcast

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With Justin Lorenzo Biggi

Conversations: Justin Lorenzo Biggi discusses Athenian citizenship and autochthony, the myth of being born of the snakey-legged early peoples, and its intersection with disability in ancient Athens.

1h 11mCLCV 205 - Lecture 21 - The Struggle for Hegemony in Fourth-Century Greece Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)Lecture

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Kagan follows Sparta's turn to domination after the Peloponnesian War, as Lysander installs pro-Spartan oligarchic governments, until Thrasybulus resists at Phyle and, with other poleis, restores democracy to Athens.

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1h 11mCLCV 205 - Lecture 23 - Twilight of the Polis Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)Lecture

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Kagan traces Thebes rising under Epaminondas and Pelopidas until it routs the Spartans in a standard hoplite battle at Leuctra, and argues years of war then opened the door to Philip of Macedon.

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1h 10mCLCV 205 - Lecture 15 - Athenian Democracy Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)Lecture

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Kagan describes the Delian League's transformation into the Athenian empire, which let Athens rival Sparta in power, credits Cimon with driving that shift, and opens his comparison of Athenian and American democracy.

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1h 10mCLCV 205 - Lecture 20 - The Peloponnesian War, Part II (cont.) Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)Lecture

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Kagan evaluates Pericles as a general, calling his strategy defensive because Athens avoided a land battle behind its walls and navy, and rational in expecting Sparta to quit, yet faulting it for lacking an offensive plan.

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1h 08m088 Thoukydides and Periklean Politics The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The historian Thoukydides, the Father of Scientific History, then Athenian politics under Perikles: his clash with the conservative Thoukydides, and the attacks on him and his associates Pheidias, Aspasia and Anaxagoras.

1h 07mCad to the Bone: Alcibiades and Asebeia in 415 BC (Ad Navseam, Episode 74) Ad NavseamPodcast

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In 415 BC, as Nicias opposes it, Alcibiades persuades Athens to invade Sicily, then faces accusations after the herms are mutilated and maybe even a drunken satire of sacred mysteries performed.

1h 05m093 Revolt in the Empire The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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The years 428 and 427 BC: the introduction of Kleon and Nikias, the revolt of Mytilene on Lesbos from the Athenian empire, and a "prison-style breakout" from Plataia.

1h 05mThe Delian League: Ancient NATO? The AncientsPodcast

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With Polly Low

Tristan Hughes and Professor Polly Low explore the Delian League, the so-called ancient NATO, tracing tribute, revolt and contested sources as a defensive alliance from the Persian War origins slowly turns into Athens' hard-edged maritime empire.

1h 04mThe ascendancy of Thebes Ancient Warfare PodcastPodcast

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With Owen Rees, Roel Konijnendijk

The team looks at Ancient Warfare Magazine IX.2, The ascendancy of Thebes, on how Thebes had finally ascended to its place of power and control in the Hellenic world, needing only to learn from the mistakes that Sparta had made.

1h 04mThe Athenian Acropolis, Then and Now Have Toga, Will Travel: Exploring Greece and Rome, Ancient and ModernPodcast

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Emily and Cam compare visiting the Athenian Acropolis today with the fifth century BCE, explaining why the Parthenon and Erechtheion exist and what they meant to ancient Athenians.

1h 03mThe Sacred Band of Thebes (Part 3) Ancient History FangirlPodcast

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As Spartan control across Greece receded, Philip of Macedon and his 18-year-old son Alexander emerged as one of the most dangerous new opponents of Thebes' Sacred Band.

1h 02mEp. 51 Xenophon's "Anabasis" Book 1 Combat and Classics PodcastPodcast

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Brian, Shilo and Jeff start reading Xenophon's adventure story of Cyrus the Younger's army of ten thousand Greek mercenaries, asking whose ascent the title names since Cyrus dies at the end of Book 1.

1h 02mA Light in the Attic: Lysias' Speech Against Eratosthenes (Ad Navseam, Episode 217) Ad NavseamPodcast

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Lysias, a resident alien who prospered as a speechwriter, impeaches the tyrant Eratosthenes to get justice for his murdered brother Polemarchus after Sparta's regime followed the Peloponnesian War.

1h 01m63 The Spartan Strategy for Acquiring and Wielding Power w/ Eric Robinson Ancient Greece DeclassifiedPodcast

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With Eric W. Robinson

Historian Eric W. Robinson, author of the forthcoming Spartan Legend, questions how a small agrarian city-state rose to become the supreme power in ancient Greece.

1hCourt Trials in Classical Athens w. Emeritus Professor Edward Harris Ithaca BoundPodcast

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With Edward Harris

Emeritus Professor Edward Harris of the University of Durham returns to discuss how Classical Athens ran its court trials under a legal system whose principles echo in many legal systems today.

59mSubject Communities of the Athenian Empire Lesche: Ancient Greece, New IdeasPodcast

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With Leah Lazar, Christy Constantakopoulou

Leah Lazar, postdoctoral researcher at Oxford's Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, and Christy Constantakopoulou examine Athens and its fifth-century subject allies, the Athenian empire Constantakopoulou traced in The Dance of the Islands.

58mEp. 53 Xenophon's "Anabasis" Book 3 Combat and Classics PodcastPodcast

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The Greek army has been beheaded, with all its generals dead, and the soldiers lie down in despair until Xenophon has a dream that leads him to revive the troops and start the march north out of Persia.

57mThe Fall of Athens The AncientsPodcast

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With Alastair Blanshard

In 404 BC Athens faced total defeat, its navy shattered and its food supply cut off; Tristan Hughes and Professor Alastair Blanshard explore the final years of the Peloponnesian War, the roles of Lysander and Alcibiades, and Persian support.

57mAthens, 403 BC: A Choral History Lesche: Ancient Greece, New IdeasPodcast

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With Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard

Vincent Azoulay of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Paulin Ismard of Aix-Marseille University study the restoration of democracy in Athens in 403 BC, examining the Athenian civil war through the prism of chorality.

57m66: The Funeral Oration of Pericles Classical Stuff You Should KnowPodcast

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Thucydides recorded, as best he could, the funeral oration of Pericles, among the greatest rulers of Athens, give or take, played here in full before the hosts discuss it.

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56m54 Were the Spartans Proto-Fascist Losers? w/ Bret Devereaux Ancient Greece DeclassifiedPodcast

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Military historian Bret Devereaux of North Carolina State University explains why he thinks the traditional image of Sparta as an egalitarian society of warriors is a lie, following his viral article on bad history.

56mSparta vs Athens: The Peloponnesian War Echoes of HistoryPodcast

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With Tristan Hughes, Roel Konijnendijk

Assassin's Creed Odyssey puts players at the heart of the Peloponnesian War, the expansive conflict between Athens and Sparta; guest host Tristan Hughes and Dr Roel Konijnendijk recount its causes, events and legacy in the ancient Greek world.

56mThe Sacred Band of Thebes (Part 1) Ancient History FangirlPodcast

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In the 300s BC, Thebes fielded an elite military force of 150 male lovers, whose love for each other made them strong enough to break oppressive regimes.

56mSparta, Athens, Ukraine, Israel: A Conversation with Paul Rahe on Proxy Wars New Books in Ancient HistoryPodcast

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With Paul Rahe

Paul Rahe's Sparta's Sicilian Proxy War (Encounter Books, 2023) traces Athens' invasions of Spartan-backed Sicily as one of the earliest proxy wars in the West, comparing ancient Sparta's structure with Athens and modern America.

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56mEp. 56 Xenophon's "Anabasis" Book 6 Combat and Classics PodcastPodcast

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Schisms continue within the Greek army in Book 6, as some soldiers befriend the locals, some seek help and some go raiding, while Xenophon turns down the generalship of the whole army.

55m044 Democracy under Pericles The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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How Classical Athenian democracy worked in the mid-to-late 5th century BC: Perikles' role in its radicalization, the magistracies, the ekklesia, the boule and prytaneis, the law courts and jury system, contemporary critiques, and the liturgies that paid for it.

55mAthens in the 5th Century BC Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, WarPodcast

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Dr Gillian Shepherd looks at Athenian democracy in the 5th century BC, tracing how structures and objects found in the Athenian agora evidence its workings after the fall of the Peisistratid tyranny.

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54mEp. 57 Xenophon's "Anabasis" Book 7 Combat and Classics PodcastPodcast

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In the last book of the Anabasis the hosts look back at the three challenges Xenophon faced: going to war alongside Cyrus, marching the Greeks through enemy territory, and reaching the sea; they explore his idea of leadership.

54mEp. 55 Xenophon's "Anabasis" Book 5 Combat and Classics PodcastPodcast

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The rebels reach the Black Sea, but the ships they wait for do not show up, so Xenophon leads an expedition for provisions and later toys with founding a city where the army is camped.

54mPottery in Archaic & Classical Sparta w. Dr Adrien Delahaye Ithaca BoundPodcast

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With Adrien Delahaye

Dr Adrien Delahaye of the French School at Athens discusses how pottery in ancient Sparta served storage, shipping, moral lessons and more, tracing its use through the Archaic and Classical periods.

54mLaw in Classical Athens w. Dr Edward Harris Ithaca BoundPodcast

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Emeritus Professor Edward Harris of Durham University explains how Classical Athens became an early adopter of the rule of law.

53m71: New Friends, Old Enemies History of PersiaPodcast

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Under Darius II, Persia reconquers Ionia and the Greek cities of west Asia in Anatolia, achieved only with the aid of a surprising ally: Sparta and the Peloponnesian League.

53mThe Great Plague of Athens Instant ClassicsPodcast

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In 430 BCE a plague hit Athens and killed about a third of the population; Thucydides, historian, eyewitness and survivor, recorded its symptoms in line with the emerging science of medicine, not divine retribution.

53mDecoding The Parthenon Instant ClassicsPodcast

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Mary and Charlotte decode the Parthenon, built as a temple to Athena in the middle of the 5th century BCE in only fifteen years, using enslaved and free labour.

52m50: Introducing Thucydides with Prof. James Romm Casting Through Ancient GreecePodcast