Classical Athens and Sparta

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

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

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

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

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

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.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

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.

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

With H. Voss

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

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of Greeced Lightning

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

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

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

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

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

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.

Part of The Ancients

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of Ad Navseam

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of The Ancients

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.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

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.

Part of Have Toga, Will Travel: Exploring Greece and Rome, Ancient and Modern

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.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

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.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

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.

Part of Ad Navseam

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.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

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.

Part of Ithaca Bound

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.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

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.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

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.

Part of The Ancients

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.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

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.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

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.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

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.

Part of Echoes of History

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.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

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.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

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.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

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.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

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.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

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.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

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.

Part of Ithaca Bound

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.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Edward Harris

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

Part of History of Persia

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.

Part of Instant Classics

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.

Part of Instant Classics

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.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

With James Romm

Prof. James Romm introduces Thucydides and his subject, the Peloponnesian War, as the series leaves Herodotus behind as its main source at what is often seen as the start of the Classical Age.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd outlines the Peloponnesian War of 431 to 404 BC between Athens, Sparta and their allies, centred on the statesman Perikles and the historian Thucydides who recorded the conflict.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

Cyrus is dead at the start of Book 2, yet the Greeks are victorious, and by its end every Greek general is dead through the treachery of Tissaphernes; the hosts examine the piety of Clearchus.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

With Andrea Radasanu

Andrea Radasanu returns as the guest for episode 40 to discuss the Sicilian Expedition as Thucydides tells it in the History of the Peloponnesian War.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd examines the extravagant building programme on the Acropolis, most famously the Parthenon, begun after a gap of over 30 years following the Persian sack of 480 BC.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The Persian successions behind the return of Persia to Greek politics: the assassination of Xerxes, Artaxerxes I and the Egyptian revolt of Inaros, the violent climb of Darius II, and the strategies of Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus.

Part of In Our Time

Plato's Crito and Phaedo describe the last days of Socrates in prison in 399 BC awaiting execution by hemlock, arguing in the Crito that escape would be wrong and in the Phaedo for the soul's immortality.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

With Dr David Pritchard

Dr David Pritchard examines the paradox that evidence on Attic women in classical Athens was produced by men, largely about elite wives and daughters, and traces a woman's career through education, marriage and household life.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The years 454 to 446 BC: Athens behaving in an increasingly imperialistic way, and the final years of the First Peloponnesian War.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Historian Josiah Ober, author of The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, on classical Athens against modern democracy, and his claim that for several centuries democracy and growth were normal for citizens in ancient Greece.

Part of HistoryExtra podcast

With Paul Cartledge

Historian Paul Cartledge explores the Athenian statesman Pericles, renowned for promoting democracy, championing the arts and shaping the Athenian empire, though his military mistakes and eccentricity left him with a mixed reputation.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Aspasia, long-term partner of the Athenian statesman Pericles and darling of the philosophical set, survived the plague of Athens and threw the best parties for a hundred miles.

Part of History Unplugged Podcast

With Alex Petkas

Stranded deep in enemy territory with 10,000 soldiers and no clear way home, Xenophon and his Greek mercenaries could escape only on foot; guest Alex Petkas discusses the leadership of this student of Socrates, whose account Napoleon referenced.

Part of Have Toga, Will Travel: Exploring Greece and Rome, Ancient and Modern

The Athenian Acropolis carried a long history before and after the Parthenon's construction in the fifth century BCE, and Emily and Cam trace that history at Athens's most iconic landmark.

Part of The Ancients

With Owen Rees

Focusing on the Classical Greek Period, around 500 to 323 BC, Dr Owen Rees discusses whether ancient warfare produced psychological injury resembling PTSD, examining the cases of two specific individuals, Epizelus the Athenian and Clearchus the Spartan.

Part of In Our Time

Pericles dominated Athenian politics for thirty years while its democracy strengthened and its empire grew and the Parthenon rose on the Acropolis, then in 431 BC gave a funeral oration before dying of plague within two years.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

After Theban rebels led by Pelopidas retook Thebes from Sparta, they formed an elite 300-man fighting force, the Sacred Band, to counter the dreaded Spartan hippeis.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Polly Low, Neville Morley

Polly Low and Neville Morley debate the manifold causes of the Peloponnesian War with James Renshaw, in the first part of this episode for the Ancient History A Level syllabus.

Part of The Ancients

With Owen Rees

Recorded by Xenophon, the 10,000 were Greek mercenaries employed by Cyrus the Younger who travelled over 1,766 miles to the Battle of Cunaxa, where Cyrus perished and left them stranded; Owen Rees discusses their perilous journey home.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Jeffrey Rusten

Dr Jeffrey Rusten, Professor at Cornell University, discusses how Athens, though not the first major city-state in Greece, rose to become the most prominent one during the Classical period.

Part of Gresham College Lectures

With Edith Hall

Edith Hall examines how in 431 BCE the Athenian statesman Pericles delivered his Epitaphios, the Funeral Oration for the first soldiers lost in the Peloponnesian War, recorded by Thucydides.

Part of History Unplugged Podcast

With Polly Low

The Peloponnesian War, fought between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 BC and documented by the Athenian general and historian Thucydides, lasted 27 years and drew in Greek states as far as Sicily.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Philip Davies

Dr Philip Davies of the University of Nottingham explains how Classical Sparta was governed by a diarchy, two kings who ruled together alongside a citizen body that passed its laws.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The years 461 to 454 BC, the early part of the First Peloponnesian War, which the episode also calls the Undeclared War.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

With the Persian threat gone, suspicions between Greek states return: Athens ostracises Themistocles, Sparta contends with rising democratic factions on the Peloponnese, and both settle on post-war policies over a decade.

Part of Tides of History

The episode traces nearly 30 years of the Peloponnesian War across the whole of Greece, concluding that Athens' fate was decided in faraway Sicily and not in Greece itself.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Eastern Greeks, angered by Pausanias and the Spartan commanders, hand Athens the leadership, the episode asks how far Athens fostered that support, and a new league holds its first congress on Delos.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Pylos and Sphacteria: Demosthenes fortifies Pylos and repels a Spartan assault, peace talks break down, and under Cleon and Demosthenes the Spartans on Sphacteria surrender, raising fears of helot uprisings.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Nicias pauses for winter and requests cavalry, Hermocrates reforms the Syracusan command, Alcibiades in Sparta prompts sending Gylippus and fortifying Decelea, and a night march by Lamachus seizes Euryelus on the Epipolae Heights.

Part of History of Persia

The Spartan invasion of Anatolia continues as the incompetent Thibron gives way to Derkylidas and then to Spartan King Agesilaus himself, whose successes topple Tissaphernes, only to be undone by the arrival of Persia's newest ally, Athens.

Part of Ancient Greece Today

With Ferdia Lennon

Naomi interviews Ferdia Lennon about his 2024 novel Glorious Exploits, set in the wake of the Sicilian Expedition of 415-413 BCE, discussing the sensory experience of visiting the ancient theater and quarries in Syracuse.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After Pericles: the comeback of Plistoanax and an alleged bribery scandal at the Oracle of Delphi, Spartan earthquake superstitions and Heraclea, and the disastrous Aetolian campaign of Demosthenes before his victory in Ambracia.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After Mantinea Argos restores democracy, Nicias and Alcibiades unite to exile Hyperbolus in the final use of ostracism, and Athens conquers neutral Melos after the Melian Dialogue and executes its male citizens.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Maria Fragoulaki, Paul Cartledge

Maria Fragoulaki and Paul Cartledge open this episode by examining the reasons the Athenians lost the Peloponnesian War, for the Ancient History A Level syllabus with James Renshaw.

Part of Ancient History Hound

The final part of this Theban trilogy covers the highs and lows for Thebes in the 4th century BC, a whirlwind of alliances and reprisals including a Spartan garrison and gloomy spiders.

Part of History of Persia

The story of the 10,000 mercenaries continues straight into the Spartan invasion of the Persian Empire, proof the Greeks kept caring about Persia even after Cyrus died.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The first year of the Archidamian War: Archidamus ravages Attica to draw Athens into a hoplite battle, Pericles keeps his forces behind the walls, and Athenian ships raid the coast of the Peloponnese.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The Athenian tradition of funeral processions for the war dead and the oration Pericles gives at the end of the first year, recorded in full by Thucydides and meant to convince Athenians the struggle was worth continuing.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Athens sends more forces to besiege Potidaea amid diplomacy in Thrace and Macedon, Sparta sends a mission toward Thrace and Persia, and Pericles faces mounting discontent as the war party gains influence.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After Pericles, new figures such as the demagogue Cleon rise in Athens, Mytilene leads a revolt on Lesbos and seeks Peloponnesian help, and Athens reaches a chilling decision after the revolt fails.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Athens shifts its foreign policy and sends a fleet under Laches and Charoeades to Sicily, capturing cities and stirring local uprisings against Syracuse in a bid to weave a web of influence.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The seventh year of the war, 425 BC: Athens uses treachery to take a city, then captures Cythera and Thyrea and invades Spartan territory, a shift shaped by rivalries between Cleon and Nicias.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The erosion of Athenian advantage: Thucydides is tried and exiled, the successes of Brasidas force a truce with Sparta in 423 BC that is soon breached, and Athens moves on Mende and Scione.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The Peace of Nicias of 421 BCE after a decade of conflict: the events leading to it, its terms, the controversies right after ratification, and why it ultimately failed.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The fall of the Sicilian Expedition, from the eclipse and broken fleet to the collapse at the Asinaris River, asking whether Nicias, democracy, overreach, logistics or contingency best explains it.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The Ionian War begins as Persian silver meets Spartan need: Alcibiades helps flip Chios, Miletus joins the revolt, Tissaphernes negotiates the first Sparta-Persia treaty, and Athens secures Samos by the end of 412 BC.

Part of Tides of History

With Robin Waterfield, Polly Low

The episode calls Thucydides perhaps the greatest historian to ever live, whose account of the Peloponnesian War has been read, digested and debated for more than 2,400 years.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This episode asks how Thebes fared in the 5th century BCE after Plataea, examining its position by the end of the century amid revenge, a sporting controversy and the big stage.

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

This episode pairs the myth of Europa of Tyre with the story of the siege of Milos, revisited from Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Ephialtes and his junior Pericles turn the Athenians against Cimon and have him ostracized, the Areopagus sees its powers severely reduced in favour of the council of 500 and the assembly, and Ephialtes falls to political violence.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After the 30 years peace Pericles faces a conservative challenge, tribute lists hint at unrecorded revolts, and a war between Samos and Miletus brings Athenian intervention, a Samian revolt and indirect Persian aid.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The affair of Epidamnus, a colony claimed by both Corinth and Corcyra, compared to the powder keg before World War 1; Corinth loses at sea, and Athens, after two assemblies, decides to assist Corcyra.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Sicily from the Greco-Persian Wars to 427 BCE: the liberation of Syracuse, the tyranny of Hieron and the counsel of Simonides, democratic revival, and the ambitions of Ducetius, setting the board for the later expedition.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After Pylos, Athens targets the allies of Sparta: Demosthenes and Hippocrates plot to capture Megara amid its factions until the plot is exposed, and Boeotians under Pagondas win the Battle of Delium.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Brasidas marches north through Thessaly in 424 BC, uses diplomacy and moderate surrender terms to reach Amphipolis and turn cities against Athens, and negotiates with Perdiccas and Arabaeus along the way.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Alcibiades uses a small force to intimidate the Peloponnese without breaking the peace, King Aegis makes a truce with two Argive generals that nearly costs him everything, and both sides bend festivals and omens.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The Sicilian Expedition leaves the Piraeus amid pride, stretched finances and a leadership trio in disagreement, the Herms are mutilated, Alcibiades sails under suspicion, and the silver Segesta promised dissolves.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Along the Italian coast harbors open while alliances fail, Alcibiades is recalled and slips into exile, Syracuse arms under the urging of Hermocrates, and Nicias baits the Syracusans into a battle won short of decisive victory.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After Sicily Athens counts lost warships, thousands of dead citizens and a strained treasury, creates the proboloi and a 5% tax on maritime trade, while Persia reenters Greek affairs through Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus.

Part of Tides of History

The episode traces the Peloponnesian War's roots back to the Persian Wars, when Athens seized the chance to build an empire in their aftermath, setting up the 30-year conflict with Sparta for control of Classical Greece.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This episode follows two separate incidents where Athens became directly involved in Sicilian affairs near the end of the fifth century BC, including a highly consequential eclipse.

Part of Ancient History Hound

With Michael Furman

In the 4th century BCE Thessaly moved from fractured to unified under Jason of Pherae, who became a prominent figure in Greece and earned the admiration of Xenophon before it all ended abruptly.

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

This episode reclaims Aspasia as an intelligent, independent figure at the center of Classical Athenian politics who also worked as a sex worker.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After the snub Athens leaves the Hellenic league, allies with enemies of Sparta, builds the long walls, fights Corinth, and marches out to meet a Spartan force in Boeotia at the battle of Tanagra.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After Egypt Athens makes a truce with Sparta, forces revolting Delian league members back in as tribute payers, and sends Cimon to Cyprus, after which what appears to be some sort of peace with Persia follows.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

A congress of the Peloponnesian league votes for war, Spartan ultimatums make demands Athens cannot accept, and Thebes attacks Plataea, an ally of Athens, in an action that goes against its plans.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Why the Peloponnesian War broke out: what Thucydides says about its causes, remote and immediate causes reaching back before the Persian War, and why a search for a single cause ends in disappointment.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The siege of Potidaea, where defenders resort to cannibalism, Archidamus's campaign against Plataea becoming a blockade, and Pericles, temporarily removed from power, succumbing to the plague.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

A recap from Pylos to the Peace of Nicias, then Corinth and Elis weighing a break from Sparta for the Argive League, partly shaped by their governments, and secret negotiations between Athens and Sparta.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Siege lines rise around Syracuse until Gylippus arrives and a counterwall blocks them, Lamachus dies, and Nicias writes home that Athens must withdraw entirely or reinforce massively.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After the Persian defeat Themistocles gets the walls of Athens built before Sparta can act, while within 10 years Pausanias and Leotychides, commanders of the victory, fall from grace and are seen as criminals.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Persia assembles forces in southern Anatolia and Cimon leads the league there: a naval battle at the opening of the Eurymedon River, a land battle after, and possibly a second naval engagement.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Athens answers a plea from Inaros, a Libyan king leading Egypt's revolt against Artaxerxes; the siege of Memphis breaks, the Athenians are besieged in the Nile delta, and their force is all but destroyed.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Sparta wins at Tanagra in 457 BC, yet 62 days later Athens strikes into Boeotia and gains much control there, then secures trade connections through the Corinthian gulf until news of Egypt arrives.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Corinth after the tyranny: hosting one of the Pan Hellenic games, early coinage, a large navy within the Peloponnesian league, a negative portrayal in Herodotus shaped by when he wrote, and a role in the First Peloponnesian War.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The second year of the war: Archidamus invades Attica again, Athens sends a fleet against the Peloponnesian shores, and a plague enters through trade networks and spreads through a city crowded by war.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The third year: a fresh Athenian operation in the Chalcidice, a failed Spartan amphibious campaign, two naval victories for Phormio despite being outnumbered, and a Spartan attempt on the Piraeus foiled by weather and hesitancy.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Amphipolis: the overreach of Cleon and the ambush tactics of Brasidas catch Athens off guard, the citizens hail Brasidas as a saviour, and both Athens and Sparta face new challenges.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The Peace of Nicias unravels: Corinth encourages Argos to form a rival bloc, Sparta allies with Boeotia, and Alcibiades deceives Spartan delegates to win an alliance of Athens with Argos, Elis and Mantinea.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Mantinea, 418 BC: Agis leads a Spartan force against the coalition Alcibiades built, a complex manoeuvre opens a gap while some commanders refuse orders, and victory forces Argos back into the Peloponnesian League.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Segesta seeks help and Athens debates: Nicias warns against overreach, Alcibiades promises easy conquest, and demands meant to deter the assembly backfire, growing the expedition from 60 ships to 130 triremes and 5,000 hoplites.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Athens reads the letter from Nicias as a call to commit more and sends Demosthenes and Eurymedon, while Sparta fortifies Decelea and Syracuse cracks the Athenian navy in the Great Harbor.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Syracuse adapts its triremes for the cramped Great Harbor, the night assault of Demosthenes on Epipolae collapses, a lunar eclipse delays departure, and after the final naval defeat crews refuse to man the ships.

Part of Tides of History

The episode traces classical Athens' wealth to democracy, law and institutions that made people feel safe doing business, beyond the silver lodes of Attica and access to the sea.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Maria Fragoulaki, Paul Cartledge

In the second part of this episode, Maria Fragoulaki and Paul Cartledge continue examining the reasons the Athenians lost the Peloponnesian War, for the Ancient History A Level syllabus.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Polly Low, Neville Morley

Polly Low and Neville Morley continue debating the many causes of the Peloponnesian War in the second part of this episode, part of the Ancient History A Level syllabus.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The Delian league's first decade under Cimon: campaigns against Persian controlled regions on the Thracian coast, then against other Greeks, and Naxos, attempting to leave, kept in by force, an ominous sign of the league's direction.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Thasos revolts from the Delian league, reportedly for economic reasons, and under siege turns to Sparta, which secretly agrees to attack Athenian territory until a great earthquake devastates the Peloponnese.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Two studies of the darker side of war through Thucydides: the political chaos, internal turmoil and indiscriminate violence of Corcyra, and the tragedy of Plataea.

Part of Ancient History Hound

Dionysius I faces an unstoppable force from Carthage in this Sicily episode, which also includes a surprise wedding, or two, before the encounter plays out.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

With Dr David Pritchard

Dr David Pritchard of the University of Queensland examines Spartan women as a foil for Athens, alongside Attic women's supposed wantonness and their prominent role in Greek religious practice.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Sparta secures the Peloponnese and joins the second Sacred War around Delphi, returning oligarchs defeat Athens in Boeotia, and after a Spartan invasion of Attica talks lay the foundation for the 30 years peace.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After Samos, Athens secures the edges of its empire: streamlining the Carian tribute list, courting Byzantium as the key to the Black Sea, and founding colonies in Thrace, until it fits the definition of an empire.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The battle of Sybota: 10 Athenian triremes with orders to engage only if Corcyrean territory is threatened end up in open combat, both sides claim victory, and the 30 years peace is breached.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Athens prepares for war with Corinth: it demands that Potidaea, a Corinthian colony, take down its walls and ends up besieging it, imposes the Megarian Decree, and Corinth urges Sparta to act.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Corinth and other aggrieved allies make their case at Sparta, uninvited Athenians urge caution, King Archidamus speaks for the peace party against an ephor of the war party, and the vote finds Athens in breach.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The earthquake of 464 BC devastates Sparta and the helots of Messenia revolt; Sparta calls on allies, then sends only the Athenians home, a snub marking open hostility as Cimon's popularity declines.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

With Robert L. O'Connell

Murray chats with author Robert L. O'Connell about his new 2026 book Band on the Run, which explores the March of the 10,000 and Xenophon's Anabasis.

Part of The Ancients

With Alastair Blanshard

Plague in the ancient world was nothing unusual, but one of the most infamous outbreaks occurred in 430 BC, the Plague of Athens; Alastair Blanshard, Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Queensland, discusses this devastating episode in Athenian history.

Part of The Ancients

With Judith Barringer

Among the Greek world's most important religious sites, the sanctuary at Olympia arguably entered its golden age in the 5th and 4th centuries BC; Professor Judy Barringer discusses surviving art from the Temple of Zeus to Nike of Paionios.

Part of Ancient History Hound

Ancient History Hound closes its Sicily miniseries with Dionysius I of Syracuse, covering his poetry, his behaviour and a bizarre use for heated walnut shells in a dramatic finish.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

The team discusses magazine issue 101, City-States in an Arms Race, on how Greek city-states sought money, power and victory in the decades after the Peloponnesian War tore up existing alliances.

Part of Ancient History Hound

After the Sicilian Expedition, Syracuse celebrates victory in this episode, though one empire retreats to lick its wounds, another emerges, and an old habit returns to Syracuse.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This episode follows the tyrant Thrasybulus in Syracuse during the 460s BC amid civil unrest as democracy finally appears, and Ducetius, one of Sicily's most intriguing sons, making a play for power.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This podcast examines the oddity of ostracism in Ancient Athens, why it was needed, and a brief look at tyrants including an instance Herodotus calls the silliest trick in history.

Part of History of Persia

Despite defeat in Sicily, reports of Athenian demise in 413 BCE prove exaggerated; by 411 Athens and Sparta clash again in a protracted tug-of-war across the Aegean while Athens itself is seized by political upheaval.

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

Aristophanes' Lysistrata imagines the women banding together in a sex strike, wondering whether they can stop a war they don't believe in.

Part of Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

Xenophon, a soldier, historian and student of Socrates, leads the stranded Greek army known as the Ten Thousand through hostile territory, a march he recorded in his Anabasis.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Richard Billows

Thucydides heard Herodotus lecture around 450 BC before writing History of the Peloponnesian War, believing history moves in cycles and is more than mere record keeping.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This episode asks how far Thucydides altered his account of the Athenian disaster in the Sicilian Expedition, looking at arguments that suggest he amended it to align with his views through subtle and none-too-subtle techniques.

Part of Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

Agesilaus, the disciplined Spartan king, is paired against Pelopidas, the fiery Theban who defied tyranny and shaped the rise of Thebes through bold action and sacrifice, through Plutarch's lens.

Part of The Ancients

With James Romm

The Theban Sacred Band was an elite corps active for almost 50 years in the mid 4th century BC; James Romm tells Tristan many of the 150 pairs of male lovers in this 300-man corps were buried where they fell.

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

This second half of Aristophanes' The Frogs stages a comic battle of the poets between Euripides and Aeschylus, per translations by David Barrett and Stephen Halliwell.

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

Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs opens this two-part telling, billed here as exactly the laugh everyone needs, with comedic references to suicide, per translations by David Barrett and Stephen Halliwell.

Part of Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

Having narrowly survived the invasion of Xerxes's massive Persian army, Athens leans on Cimon's leadership to build a new alliance and a powerful navy in the Aegean Sea.

Part of Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

Lysander is appointed admiral of the Spartan fleet at Ephesus in 407 BC, and resolves to make it a match for the Athenian navy, resurgent since Alcibiades's return.

Part of The Ancients

With Stephen Hodkinson

Sparta is ingrained in popular imagination as home to unmatched Greek super soldiers; Tristan and Professor Stephen Hodkinson ask what is actually known about Spartan society, especially during the city's 'golden age' in the 5th and early 4th centuries BC.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Alastair Blanshard

In 430 BC, during the Peloponnesian War, Athens was struck by a plague that killed roughly a third of the city's population; Alastair Blanchard explains its causes and repercussions.

Part of Kings and Generals

Sparta, a land power with little naval experience, defeats Athens and its Delian League through alliances, economics and Persian gold, after the destruction of Melos and the disastrous Sicilian Expedition drained Athenian resources.

Part of Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

After a disastrous setback in Sicily, Athens fights on in the Peloponnesian War, with Alcibiades playing a key role in each new turning point of the conflict.

Part of Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

The ambitious Alcibiades and the cautious Nicias, two polar opposites, clash over Athenian foreign policy toward Sparta, each urging a different course on the city.

Part of Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

With Cimon out of the picture, Pericles becomes the most prominent voice in the Ecclesia, establishing a legacy as arguably the greatest statesman in Athens's history and opening its Golden Age.

Part of Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

Pericles reaches heights of political power never before achieved in democratic Athens, even as the threat of war looms over the city and Greece as a whole.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

The Ionic frieze and its evolution from a decorative band to storyboard, then the many similarities between the Parthenon frieze and the Apadana reliefs, the Parthenon and Apadana, the Acropolis and Persepolis, and Athens and the Persian empire.

Part of Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

Picking up after a plague claimed Pericles, who had kept Athens behind its walls against Sparta, the unfinished war forces the city to find new leadership.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Paul Cartledge, Maria Fragoulaki

Paul and Maria revise the Sicilian Expedition, Alcibiades' role and Tissaphernes' Persian policy, plus the Persian revolt of Amorges in 414 BCE, as reasons for Athenian defeat.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Polly Low, Neville Morley

This revision episode covers the period from 478 to 446 BCE and the first Peloponnesian War, as Polly Low and Neville Morley work through the causes.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Paul Cartledge, Maria Fragoulaki

This bitesize revision covers the Archidamian War and the Peace of Nicias that followed it, as Paul Cartledge and Maria Fragoulaki examine the early phase of Athens' defeat with James.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Polly Low, Neville Morley

Polly Low and Neville Morley revise the Thirty Years' Peace and the Samian Revolt that followed it, one of the causes examined for the Ancient History A Level Peloponnesian Wars syllabus.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Paul Cartledge, Maria Fragoulaki

This revision episode covers the oligarchic coup in Athens and the role of Cyrus the Younger, as Paul Cartledge and Maria Fragoulaki work through the reasons for Athenian defeat with James.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Polly Low, Neville Morley

James, Polly and Neville discuss the Megarian Decree, one of the disputed causes examined for the Ancient History A Level Peloponnesian Wars syllabus.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

A lekythos at the Art Institute of Chicago reflects the refined aesthetic of late Archaic and Classical Athens, alongside Exekias's black-figure amphora The Suicide of Ajax in Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Jay asks Murray to judge between Demosthenes, whom he calls criminally underrated among historians because Thucydides records several of his clever tactics, and Thrasybulus, weighing both against the greater fame of Alcibiades and Pericles.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Paul Cartledge, Maria Fragoulaki

Paul Cartledge and Maria Fragoulaki revise the key sources for the Peloponnesian Wars, plus Archidamus and Persia, with James for the Ancient History A Level syllabus.

Part of Kings and Generals

During the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, the hoplite remains dominant but lighter versions emerge, and Hellenic city-states begin turning to cavalry and skirmishers to gain the upper hand.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Paul Cartledge, Maria Fragoulaki

Paul Cartledge and Maria Fragoulaki revise the naval battles of Notion, Arginusae and Aegospotami with James, three of the reasons they give for Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian Wars, before drawing conclusions.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Polly Low, Neville Morley

This revision episode covers the causes of complaint at Corcyra and Potidaea, what Thucydides called the aitia, as James, Polly and Neville revise the roots of the Peloponnesian Wars.

Part of Kings and Generals

This edition on the Ancient Greek Navies focuses on Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian Wars, covering which ships were used, the tactics applied, and who financed and manned the fleets.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

Ionian Greek artists carried ideas between Persia and Greece; the transitional Harpy Tomb at Xanthos in Lycia sits alongside the Persian sites of Susa and Persepolis in tracing that exchange.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Christopher asks what Epaminondas of Thebes looked like, noting the strangeness that statues or busts of the general have not been found, and wondering whether that traces back to Alexander razing Thebes to the ground.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Polly Low, Neville Morley

James, Polly and Neville close this revision run by giving their own verdicts on the real causes of the Peloponnesian Wars, after working through the evidence in earlier episodes.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Samuel asks about Athenian archers at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, whom Thucydides lists in significant numbers in 431, questioning their equipment, citizen status, and whether they served aboard triremes or in garrisons.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

After rereading Thucydides, GC asks about the fire-signal exchange between attackers and the Plataeans, who displayed prepared signals of their own to render the enemy's warning signals to Thebes unintelligible.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

James asks whether Spartan society recognised the decline of its soldier numbers from 10,000 to under 2,000, following defeat by Thebes and growing economic concentration, as a problem, and why efforts to reverse it failed.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Patron Greg asks how widespread the use of Hamippoi was in 5th BC Greece.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Polly Low, Neville Morley

Polly Low and Neville Morley open this revision series with the sources and historiography behind the debate over the causes of the Peloponnesian Wars, a key period of Greek history.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

The origin, construction and sordid history of the Parthenon frieze, and a new imperial Athens that seeks to model herself, her Periclean Acropolis and the frieze after her once-formidable enemy, Persia.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Samuel notes that Xenophon records the Skiritai as part of a Spartan army foray into Boeotia in the mid-370s, and asks how they fit into Spartan society, their battlefield roles, and how they were armed.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

The fish plate, an often-overlooked curiosity among ancient Greek ceramics, and the 4th century BC appetite for fish that blossomed as a culture phenomenon, an art form and an obsession rich with sexual innuendos and double-meanings.

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

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

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

With Owen Rees, Roel Konijnendijk

Part of New Books in Ancient History · Scholars on their new books, interviewed by a peer; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Jennifer T. Roberts

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

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

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

Part of In Our Time · The BBC seminar format; only the Greek episodes are indexed

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

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

Part of History Unplugged Podcast · Scott Rank's call-in show and expert interviews; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast · Seminars for military members on the great books; the Greek texts are indexed

With Andrea Radasanu

Part of The Ancients · History Hit's interview show; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Polly Low

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

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast · Seminars for military members on the great books; the Greek texts are indexed

Part of History of Persia · Persia from Cyrus onward; only the episodes where the Greek world is the subject are indexed

Part of History of Persia · Persia from Cyrus onward; only the episodes where the Greek world is the subject are indexed

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

Part of The Ancients · History Hit's interview show; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Owen Rees

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

With Josiah Ober

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

Part of Garner's Greek Mythology · Patrick Garner on the Greek gods and what became of them

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

Part of Alexandria: A Hellenistic World Podcast · Phillip Register on the Hellenistic world, year by year

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece · The same centuries again, at a slower pace and with the sources named

Part of Ancient History Hound · Ancient Blogger on Greece, Rome and antiquity for every level; only the Greek episodes are indexed