War

One voice, in order, from the Stone Age forward, and long enough to stop for a fifty-minute episode on the symposium when the story reaches one. A hundred and twelve numbered episodes so far and still running.

The stretch most Greek histories skip: after Alexander dies in 323 BC the empire splits between his generals, and this works through the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, the Antigonids and the Greek kingdoms that reached India.

Mark Selleck works through the archaic and classical centuries in roughly forty minutes an episode, stopping to say which ancient author a claim comes from. A hundred and seven numbered episodes reach the Ionian War.

This miniseries dramatizes the 10-year siege of Troy and the love affair between Paris and Helen, an original take on the Greek myths that first aired on BBC One in February 2018 before Netflix streamed it internationally.

Michael Wood writes and presents this six-part BBC documentary series from 1985, examining how far historical and archeological evidence matches Homer's account of the Trojan War in the Iliad.

Christopher Nolan wrote and directed this 2026 adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, produced with Emma Thomas and starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, who journeys home to Ithaca after the Trojan War to reunite with Penelope.

Wolfgang Petersen directed this 2004 film starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom, loosely based on Homer's Iliad and condensing the decade-long Trojan War as Achilles and the Greek army besiege Hector's Troy.

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.

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 Spartan History Podcast

With Owen Rees

Dr Owen Rees, a historian specialising in the psychological effects of ancient warfare, discusses the Battle of Marathon of 490 BCE, its build up, the peculiarities of Athenian general Miltiades and its aftermath.

Directed by Marino Girolami, this 1962 Italian historical drama, released in the UK as Achilles, is set in the ninth year of the Trojan War and is based primarily on Homer's Iliad, starring Gordon Mitchell as Achilles.

Zack Snyder directed this 2006 film based on Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's 1998 comic, retelling the Battle of Thermopylae as historical fantasy, with King Leonidas leading 300 Spartans against Xerxes and more than 300,000 Persian soldiers.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Karl Schudt

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Dr. Karl Schudt to discuss Book 3 of the Iliad, the story of Helen and Paris, Trojan politics, and the meaning of guest-friendship.

Directed by Giorgio Ferroni, this 1961 Italian peplum film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War focuses primarily on the Trojan hero Aeneas, with Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus.

Rudolph Maté directed this 1962 CinemaScope film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae, made with the cooperation of the Greek government and filmed in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese, starring Richard Egan and Ralph Richardson.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Grayson Quay

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan are joined by Grayson Quay to discuss Book 5 of the Iliad, where Athena tells Diomedes to fight the Trojans and to fight no immortal save Aphrodite.

Part of Literature and History

Euripides' The Bacchae, called one of the darkest and bloodiest works of Ancient Greek tragedy, concerns the spread of cult religions during the late Peloponnesian 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 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 Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan close the Iliad with Priam kissing the hands of Achilles, the man who killed his son Hector, to beg for the body's return.

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 The History of Ancient Greece

Owen Rees on the definition of a hoplite, cavalry and light infantry, and why the concept of an honorable western way of war that seeks its origins in Greek warfare is bogus and hyped up in modern ideology.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

With Owen Rees

Dr Owen Rees on his book Military Departures, Homecomings and Death in Classical Athens: how hoplites left for war and came home, how the war dead were treated, and competing theories on trauma in ancient soldiers.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With David Niles

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Adam Minihan, Thomas Lackey, and David Niles discuss Book 12 of the Iliad, the gods' dispute over the wall of the Achaeans, and Hector disregarding a bird-sign.

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 Casting Through Ancient Greece

Prof. Paul Cartledge on the Spartan mirage: education, political structure and military, the unique status of Spartan women, and later uses of Sparta, from the movie 300 to the French Revolution and North America.

Noam Murro directed this 2014 sequel to 300, based on Frank Miller's comic Xerxes and a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Artemisium and the Battle of Salamis in the Greco-Persian Wars, starring Eva Green and Lena Headey.

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.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

An unscripted end-of-year chat with Steve of the Spartan History Podcast, focusing a great deal on the Greco-Persian Wars and touching on the periods before and after, with a few connection issues left in.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

This hundred-minute finale has Odysseus confront Priam and Menelaus confront Helen on the night Troy burns, closing a twenty-episode arc that began with the apple of discord.

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 Our Fake History

Legend credits three hundred Spartans with holding off over two million Persians for four days at Thermopylae, but thousands of other Greeks who fought there have been edited out of the story.

Part of Literature and History

Aeschylus' Oresteian trilogy, one of three: a terrible family curse, a wronged queen, and a Trojan War that was only the start of the bloodshed, in this episode of Literature and History.

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, Luke, and Sam explore the life of the Macedonian king and general Alexander the Great, weighing four film versions, Irish accents, and a slip mixing Persian Wars with Peloponnesian.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski follows Diomedes cutting through the Trojan lines before Hector visits Troy in one of the Iliad's most famous, heartbreaking passages.

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 Casting Through Ancient Greece

With Trevor Culley

Trevor Culley of the History of Persia Podcast on Persia's experience of the wars, its motivations and why it was ultimately unsuccessful, since most sources focus on the Greek experience.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

A giant statue supposed to depict the god Helios was once pictured straddling the harbor at Rhodes, holding aloft a torch, though some said it looked more like Alexander the Great, on an island full of pirates and smugglers.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Hector returning to Troy in Book 6 of the Iliad, the duel between Glaucus and Diomedes, and Helen's lament to Prince Hector.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski examines Euripides' The Trojan Women and how Euripides uses and abuses Homeric form and theme to make a political argument meant to prevent the greatest political and military catastrophe in the history of Athens.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski works through what he calls the most boring part of the Iliad, arguing that its slow pace is intentional and deliberate.

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 Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski returns to Achilles and Patroclus as Patroclus marches off to war wearing Achilles' armor in the Iliad.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski opens the Iliad with Books 1 and 2: conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon, marital squabbling between Zeus and Hera, and the long list of ships.

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 Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan call Book 18 arguably the most philosophically dense book in the entire Iliad, discussing what the heart of Achilles teaches and how to interpret his shield.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski contextualizes Homer's Iliad through the Trojan War narrative in the Library of Apollodorus, tracing the major gods, goddesses and characters in that mythic tradition.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

An unscripted conversation with Steve of the Spartan History Podcast on the founding of democracy in Athens, whether Lycurgus was historical, and whether Athens or Sparta did most to defeat Persia; part 1 of 2.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan open the Iliad with the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus the King of Phthia, against Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski follows Achilles as he cuts his way through the Trojan army, at least one god, and his own personal shortcomings in the Iliad.

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 Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski explores the hubris of Hector, the transformation of Achilles' rage, and the famous, ambiguous Shield of Achilles in this thematically rich part of the Iliad.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur and Mario Bava, this 1959 international co-production sword and sandal film, loosely based on the Battle of Marathon, stars Steve Reeves as Phillipides.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Sixty minutes of story carry Odysseus from decoding a prophecy to building the wooden horse, then twenty minutes of commentary weigh a hide-covered battering ram against an earthquake that felled Troy 6 around 1250 BCE.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The Persian Wars' aftermath, the Delian League formed under Athens to carry on the war against Persia at sea, and the rival factions in Athens and Sparta struggling over foreign policy in the 470s BC.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Fifty-three minutes of story land Agamemnon's hundred-thousand-strong army on the Trojan beach, then thirty minutes of commentary contrast armored warlord heroes like Achilles with the poorly provisioned foot soldiers who made up most of that force.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski covers Diomedes and Odysseus in the Iliad, every Greek hero getting wounded, Sarpedon on Greek social structures, and Hera seducing Zeus for her own ends.

Part of Alexandria: A Hellenistic World Podcast

With Philip II

This performance covers Demosthenes's Third Philippic, which set Greece on the warpath against Philip II in 341 BCE, and his 338 BCE Funeral Oration after the catastrophic defeat.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

With Myke Cole

Myke Cole on his book The Bronze Lie, which peels back the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy; just about no Spartan writing survives, so everything known comes from outsiders looking in.

Part of The Ancients

In October 331 BC, on the plain of Gaugamela, a 25-year-old Alexander faced a large army gathered by the Persian king Darius III; Tristan gives a detailed run-down of the battle that would decide the fate of the Persian Empire.

Part of Our Fake History

Remembered as unbeatable super-soldiers whose whole society was geared towards war, the Peloponnesian city-state has inspired groups across the political spectrum, though from the 1930s historians started to question the received wisdom, some arguing for a so-called Spartan Mirage.

Part of The Ancients

With Roel Konijnendijk, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

In 486 BC Xerxes ascended the Persian throne and sought revenge on Greece; Tristan Hughes, Dr Roel Konijnendijk and Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones explore his massive invasion through the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis in the accounts of Herodotus.

Part of Literature and History

The second of Sophocles' Theban Plays, Oedipus at Colonus, rising out of the ashes of the Peloponnesian War, tells of a man who has lost everything but his own dignity.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

The Thracians served as hired assassins, enforcers and mercenaries, the ones Romans and Greeks turned to for their really dirty work, and ancient sources plus modern archaeology build a picture of how they lived, loved, fought and died.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski walks through the preparations and duel of the Iliad's Books 3-4, stressing chaos in war and the Greek view of fate, justice and the gods.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Rome declares war on Perseus in 171, the Third Macedonian War drags on, and the consul Lucius Aemilius Paulus destroys the royal army at Pydna in 168, ending the Antigonid dynasty and the Macedonian kingdom.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The death of Dareios and accession of Xerxes, preparations for a larger second invasion in 480 BC, the Hellenic League, the simultaneous land and naval battles at Thermopylai and Artemision, and the folklore of Thermopylai.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Maya Deane

Debut author Maya Deane strips away the lenses of the Victorian era and Classical Greece to reveal an Illiad about transgender Achilles and found family in a Bronze Age world.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Patroclus begging Achilles to let him fight in his armor in Book 16, and whether Patroclus deserved the fate that follows.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Seventy-five minutes with Johanna Hanink on translating Thucydides' speeches for her 2019 book How to Think About War, and on the deeper meaning behind many of his speeches.

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 Greeced Lightning

Sam and Sara explore the Amazons behind Wonder Woman, weighing misogynistic geographers, Artemis's rage, Scythian warrior women, and the myth of Actaeon from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Part of Greeced Lightning

In the series premiere, Sara Hales-Brittain teaches Luke and Sam the legend of the Trojan War, the epic cycle, and Paris's past, weighing the film Troy against the Iliad.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The first Persian invasion in 490 BC: preparations and shifting alliances, regnal squabbles at Sparta, the Battle of Marathon and its aftermath, folklore and monuments, the feud between Athenians and Aiginetans, and Athenian politics in the 480s BC.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Fifty-six minutes of story on Athena imbuing the Greek warlord Diomedes with godlike powers of combat, then seventeen minutes of commentary on whether war can be both terrible and glorious in Homer's Iliad.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Fifty-nine minutes of story follow Priam's scheme to have Achilles killed, then fifteen minutes of commentary cite Barry Strauss's 2006 book The Trojan War: A New History to argue a poisoned heel wound could really have been fatal.

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 Ancient History Fangirl

With Liv Albert

Liv Albert from Let's Talk About Myths Baby explores Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which immerses players in Ancient Greece through the symposia of Athens, Corinth, the Peloponnesian War and Crete.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Fifty minutes of story cover a dispute over honour that leads to a leadership shift in the Greek army, then twenty minutes of commentary retell how Paris's abandoned wife Oenone refuses to heal the wound that kills him.

Part of The Ancients

With Adrian Goldsworthy

Tristan Hughes and Dr Adrian Goldsworthy cover the sieges of Tyre and Gaza in 332 BC, Alexander's Egypt campaign, the Battle of Gaugamela, Persepolis's fall, and Darius III's demise as Alexander's army pushes further east into Bactria and Afghanistan.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam turn from myth to ancient history with the 2007 film 300, covering the Battle of Thermopylae, the Persian Wars, Spartan life, jock rock, and the Greeks' aversion to pants.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic launch into Persia's invasion of Greece, one of the most cataclysmic clashes in all ancient history, asking why the Persian Empire crossed the Aegean to destroy Athens in 490BC under Darius, the King of Kings.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Angelos Chaniotis

Angelos Chaniotis's Age of Conquests (Harvard UP, 2018) traces how Alexander's successors built an empire from the eastern Mediterranean as far as present-day Afghanistan, later dismantled one by one by Rome.

Part of Ad Navseam

Neal Bierling's monograph follows Philistine history from the Judges through David, Solomon and Hezekiah to Nebuchadnezzar's invasion, while the exact relationship between Samson and Hercules gets testy.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski concludes the Iliad with the Patroclus Memorial Olympics and the restoration of Hector's body to his family.

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 Casting Through Ancient Greece

The 2014 sequel 300: Rise of an Empire, centred on Artemisium and Salamis, compared with the ancient sources for what is well grounded, what is stretched, and where its creators wrote their own version.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Hippolyte and her golden belt, Penthesilea and the fall of Troy, and the Daughters of Ares: fierce warrior women recur everywhere in Greek mythology, in a male-dominated society.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Adam Cooper

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Dr. Adam Cooper to discuss Odysseus' revenge upon the suitors in Book 22, where an arrow through the neck of Antinous begins the slaughter in the hall.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic discuss the Battle of Marathon and its aftermath, asking why the battle changed the world so considerably and whether the Athenians could really triumph over the indomitable Persian Empire.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Menelaus defending the body of Patroclus in Book 17, asking whether human agency can affect fate and what Homer means by Hector's dark heart.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

The finale of the Persian Wars saga: the aftermath of Salamis, Xerxes going home, the final battles at Plataea and Mycale, the Themistoclean Walls, and the exile and death of Themistocles.

Part of The Ancients

With Louis Rawlings

In 279 BC, on a plain near Asculum in southern Italy, the Greek warlord Pyrrhus of Epirus faced the legions of the Roman Republic; Tristan Hughes and Dr Louis Rawlings tell how he won the first ever 'Pyrrhic Victory'.

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 Spartan History Podcast

With Paul Cartledge

Professor Paul Cartledge examines Thermopylae's 3 fateful days at the hot gates, when Leonidas and his 300 wrote their Polis' legend, separating the facts of the battle from the myth making around it.

Part of Young Heretics

Odysseus throws off his disguise and wages war on the suitors who tore up his house, going almost too far until his son pulls him back from the brink.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson's Odyssey (Norton, 2017) is the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman, in iambic pentameter and matching the line count of the Greek original.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss the embassy to Achilles in Book 9 of the Iliad, the role of Phoenix, and the bond between Achilles and Patroclus.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

With Myke Cole

Author Myke Cole discusses his book The Bronze Lie, which dismantles the Spartan mirage and its appropriation by ultra nationalist movements, aiming to leave a fair and unbiased representation of the real Spartan story.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam discuss the Battle of Pydna in Total War: Rome II, with Plutarch, Livy and Polybius on the Macedonian War, plus layoffs, unions and war elephants.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Spartan-Athenian tensions in the winter of 480/79 BC, Mardonios trying to turn the allies against each other, the twin victories at Plataia and Mykale in 479 BC, and Athens' first attempt on the Thrakian Chersonesos.

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 Ad Navseam

Bierling's 1992 monograph links the Mycenaeans of Atreus and Agamemnon to the Philistines, with Egyptian steles, Apollo Smintheus and a startling similarity between Iliad I and I Samuel.

Part of History Unplugged Podcast

With Nic Fields

After his victory at Gaugamela in 331 BC, Alexander's Macedonian and Greek army fought its last major battle in 326 BC against King Poros on the Hydaspes River, moving a select force across it by feints and deception.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Tristan Hughes

Tristan explains how Alexander the Great's death at Babylon in 323 BC triggered a gore-soaked showdown among his commanders and, within a fortnight, the first siege of the post-Alexander age.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam revisit the Trojan War through the 2018 series Troy: Fall of a City, weighing its chariots, birth plans, retelling of Helen, and distracting bowl cuts.

Part of Young Heretics

Achilles' murderous rage in the Iliad only makes sense inside an honor culture that seeks justice in a universe offering no guarantees, beyond any modern read of toxic masculinity.

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 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 Ancient History Hound

With Sonya Nevin

In her book The Idea of Marathon, Dr Sonya Nevin explores the Battle of Marathon from several angles, including how later generations made sense of it, complete with complaining Greeks and disappearing horses.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan welcome Thomas Lackey to discuss Book 14 of the Iliad, where Love and Sleep conquer Zeus in what Adam calls one of the funniest books so far.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Patrick Wyman

Patrick Wyman explains how the Achaemenids under Darius and Xerxes the Great sent armies against rebel Greek city states, reshaping the ancient world in the 5th century BC.

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 The Ancients

With Andrew Bayliss

In 480 BC a vastly outnumbered Greek force under Leonidas, king of Sparta, prepared to face Xerxes at Thermopylae; Tristan Hughes and Dr Andrew Bayliss trace Leonidas's rise through Sparta's Agiad dynasty to his final stand at the hot gates.

Part of The Ancients

With Eduardo Garcia-Molina

At its height the Seleucid Empire stretched from Thrace to the Indus River Valley before a devastating defeat by Rome at the Battle of Magnesia; Eduardo Garcia-Molina argues the Seleucids still resurged under Antiochus IV after that defeat.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 6 of the Iliad covers the brutality of war and argues over Hector: are his actions heroic or cowardly, and should he stay with Andromache or go down fighting.

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 The History of Ancient Greece

The context and themes of the surviving plays Euripides produced against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War, from Children of Herakles and Hekabe to Trojan Women, Orestes and Iphigenia at Aulis, leaving out Bakkhai.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The 2006 movie 300 set against the historical record: what it presents fairly accurately, what is its own interpretation, and which fanciful elements appear inserted for dramatic purposes with no basis in the record.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Forty-three minutes of story send Palamedes to track down the vanished Odysseus, then seventeen minutes of commentary turn to Greek raiding ships and the Trojans who built no navy of their own.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Military historian Adrian Goldsworthy asks how much of Alexander's success he owed to the work of his father Philip II of Macedonia.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

The team discusses magazine issue X.3, Warfare in the Age of Homer, on how the Trojan War stood to Greeks and Romans as the beginning of all warfare and the standard for expected male behaviour.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Kate Compton

Kate Compton joins the hosts in wrapping up the war that will never end, an episode featuring Memnon, Penthesilea and a big wooden horse the Trojans should have seen coming.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With David M. Pritchard

David Pritchard, Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Queensland, edits The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux, and researches the symbiosis between war, democracy and culture in classical Athens.

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 Myths and Legends

The Greeks finally find their way into Troy, taking plenty of ridiculous side quests along the way, including a cameo from one of Greek myth's most famous heroes.

Part of Young Heretics

The best scene in the Iliad shows Hector and Andromache on the wall, mourning honestly with those who suffer defeat and revealing what the poem says about polytheism among the Trojans.

Part of History of Persia

While Darius III gathers forces in the east, Alexander fights the brutal Siege of Halicarnassus; then Darius arrives in person, and east faces west at the Battle of Issus.

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 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 Tides of History

With John Hyland

The usual perspective on the Greco-Persian Wars is quite explicitly that of the Greeks; the episode asks how the Persians viewed these conflicts and what they were after, presenting Professor John Hyland's research on how the Persians understood war.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Ten years into the Trojan War below the walls of Troy, Achilles' feud with Agamemnon over a woman called Briseis rose to a fever pitch in a toxic wasteland.

Part of Greek Mythology Retold

With Eirene Allen

Classicist Dr. Eirene Allen discusses her book The Epic Women of Homer and the forms of power Homer gives women including Penelope, Helen, Andromache and Briseis: have modern readers simply overlooked how they wield it?

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Achilles driving half the Trojan army back toward Troy over the plains and the other half into the Xanthus river and his fight with the river god in Book 21.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

With Mark Selleck

Part two of a collaboration with Mark from Casting Through Ancient Greece opens on the possible veracity of the Lycurgus myth and closes with Spartan and Athenian contributions to victory in the Persian wars.

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 Young Heretics

From Book 16 to Book 24, the Iliad closes with a study of Achilles, his companion Patroclus, and the rage, war and grief that leave the stage set for the Odyssey.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

After the Mauryan collapse, Greco-Bactrian rulers invade India around 185 BC, Demetrius and Menander take Arachosia and Gandhara, and figures like Heliodorus and Sophytos hint at complex Greek and South Asian interactions.

Part of The Ancients

With Roel Konijnendijk

Characterised as super soldiers who would rather perish than surrender, the Spartan warrior's reputation preceded it; Tristan and Dr Roel Konijnendijk ask how accurate that image is against their education, training and familial expectations.

Part of The Ancients

Focussing on 323 to 320 BC, Tristan's book tells the story of Thibron, a Spartan mercenary captain who set out from Crete with around 6,000 battle-hardened mercenaries to forge his own Greco-Libyan empire in North Africa after Alexander's death.

Part of The Ancients

With Joyce Tyldesley, Chris Naunton, Glenn Godenho

Born in 69BCE into the Ptolemaic dynasty, Cleopatra VII emerged victorious from a brutal civil war within two turbulent decades of taking Egypt's throne; Professor Joyce Tyldesley, Dr Chris Naunton and Dr Glenn Godenho discuss her rise and golden age.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

With Barry Strauss

Cornell University Professor Barry Strauss on the battle of Salamis, where an allied Hellenic fleet nominally under Spartan command, with Athenian citizens as its backbone and a navy built under Themistocles, faced Persian forces outnumbering it around 4 to 1.

Part of Young Heretics

With Helen abducted and the Achaean forces gathering for Troy, the episode sifts the myths, including the tale of the Achilles heel, from what Homer's Iliad actually contains about Achilles.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Invited by the Aetolian League, Antiochus III invades mainland Greece in September 192 and declares war on Rome, is forced back to Asia, and meets Rome at Magnesia to decide the dominant Hellenistic power.

Part of The Ancients

With Silvannen Gerrard

Dr Silvannen Gerrard discusses the use of chariots with blades mounted on either side during the Hellenistic period, particularly by the Seleucid Empire, and how they fit alongside other unusual troop transport such as war elephants and camel archers.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Tony Gonzalez, Sam Johnides

Guests Tony Gonzalez and Sam Johnides bookend the episode with a preview of their musical about Orpheus and Eurydice, Happily Ever Under, while tales of Achilles, Odysseus, Helen and Patroclus fill out the main discussion.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Ashlee Cowles, Danielle Stinsen

AD Rhine, pen name of authors Ashlee Cowles and Danielle Stinsen, tells the Trojan War saga through women who lived through it on both sides, and this conversation covers the martial women of the Bronze Age.

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

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

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

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

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast · The Great Books read in seasons; the Homer, tragedy and Plato seasons are indexed

With Alex Priou

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures · University lectures on philosophy and the humanities; only the Greek lectures are indexed

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

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures · University lectures on philosophy and the humanities; only the Greek lectures are indexed

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

With Adrian Goldsworthy

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

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Philosophy texts read and chatted through; only the Greek texts are indexed

With Lucy Lawless, Emily Perkins, Erica Spyres

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

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

With Steele Brand

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

With Owen Rees, Roel Konijnendijk

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

With Adrian Goldsworthy

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

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

With Edmund Richardson

Part of Ancient History Fangirl · Two Millennial women on emperors, assassins and mythological mayhem; only the Greek episodes are indexed

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

With Eric Cline

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

With Marc de Santis, Philip Lindsay Powell, Myke Cole

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast · The Great Books read in seasons; the Homer, tragedy and Plato seasons are indexed

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

With Adrian Goldsworthy

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

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

With Paul Bardunias

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

With Graham Wrightson

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