Athens

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

Pandora, the first woman, ruins everything, while the early people of Athens turn out to have had a real fondness for snakes.

Part of Live from Mount Olympus

Newly-crowned prince Theseus and thirteen young Athenians sail the wine-dark sea to Crete as tributes bound for the monstrous Minotaur, and Eros, mischievous god of love, has other plans for them.

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

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

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

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

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

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

Part of Ancient Greece: City and Society

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

Part of Epic Greek History

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

Part of Gresham College Lectures

With Melissa Lane

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

Part of Ancient Greece: City and Society

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

Part of Epic Greek History

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

Part of Epic Greek History

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

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

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

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

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

Part of Ancient History Hound

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

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

With Michael Scott

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

Kagan traces the rise of the Persian empire into conflict with Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor, sparking the Persian Wars, and closes with the battle of Marathon, where the Athenians defeated the Persians.

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

Kagan follows the fear of Persian revenge after the Greek victory of 479 BC, as island poleis turned to Athens to lead the league that became the Delian League, while Sparta held back.

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 · History Hit's interview show; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Roel Konijnendijk, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Part of The Ancients

With Michael Scott

Themistocles rose from obscurity to help build one of the greatest naval powers in history and defeat Persia's navy, then his story ends in exile serving the empire he once defeated; Tristan Hughes and Michael Scott trace rise and fall.

Part of Tides of History

The episode describes the Persian invasion burning much of Athens after defeating Leonidas, before the Greek allies met them nearby at Salamis in what became one of the largest and most decisive naval battles in history.

Part of Have Toga, Will Travel: Exploring Greece and Rome, Ancient and Modern · Two former Classics professors on Greece and Rome, ancient and modern; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After Thermopylae the Persians march through central Greece while Athens evacuates to Salamis; Xerxes takes a mostly deserted Acropolis, and the Hellenic league debates whether to depart or fight at Salamis.

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

With Owen Rees

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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

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

With Polly Low

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 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

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 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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 History Fangirl

With Liv Albert

Hadrian, the Roman emperor who commissioned Hadrian's Wall, combined an obsession with architecture and a passion for everything Greek to transform the city of Athens, as guest Liv Albert explains here.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Johnathan Bi

Deacon Harrison Garlick, the Athenian Stranger, and Johnathan Bi open the Gorgias, where an inquiry into rhetoric between Socrates and Gorgias erupts into a war for the soul of Athens.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Alec Bianco

Ascend discusses First Alcibiades with Alec Bianco of the Circe Institute and the Athenian Stranger, calling it the best place to start with Plato.

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 Ancient History Fangirl

Sex workers in ancient Greece sometimes had more freedom than most in the Greek world could imagine, a freedom that came at a price for the famous Hetaerae of Classical Athens.

Part of Literature and History

Masks, choruses, huge prosthetic penises: before reading Sophocles, Euripides and company, the episode says, it is a good idea to know a bit about ancient Greek theater.

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 Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Alec Bianco

Alec Bianco and the Athenian Stranger join Dcn. Harrison Garlick to finish Plato's First Alcibiades, picking up the conversation at 124(b) on knowing thyself.

Part of The Ancients

With Paul Cartledge

Was Athens truly the birthplace of democracy, and who gave a voice to the people? Tristan chats to Professor Paul Cartledge about the radical statesman Cleisthenes and ancient forms of political exclusion and ostracism.

Part of Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast

Clif Mark joins Graham Culbertson of the Everyday Anarchism podcast to discuss Athenian democracy, Plato, anarchism and how modern meritocratic education fails, in this crossover episode.

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 Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

The final flowering of polytheist Platonist philosophy, centred on Athens and Alexandria, is introduced through the history of the Academy and its teachers Plutarch of Athens and Syrianus, who taught Proclus.

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

With CW Marshall

CW Marshall discusses the lost fragments of Euripides' Oedipus and Antigone, asking whether Oedipus was blind before he reached Thebes.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Seth Estrin

Seth Estrin, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, discusses Grief Made Marble, his emotion-based reading of Classical Athenian funerary sculpture, drawing on Euripides' tragedy Alcestis.

Part of The Ancients

More than 2,000 years old, the Parthenon has served as temple, treasury, residence, church, mosque, gunpowder store and tourist site; Tristan Hughes joins Matt Lewis on the Echoes of History podcast to trace its long and fascinating story.

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

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Carol Atack

Carol Atack, fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, discusses her biography Plato: A Civic Life, the second volume in Paul Cartledge's Great Lives of the Ancient World series.

Part of Ancient Greece: City and Society

Gillian Shepherd looks at classical Athenian burial customs, arguing cemeteries offer evidence for population, diet, social divisions, religious beliefs and cultural practices, though not a direct reflection of the population.

Part of Ancient Greece: City and Society

With Heather Sebo

Heather Sebo examines three Athenian tragedies centred on women, Aeschylos’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Antigone and Euripides’ Medea, where women appear strong and powerful against vain, weak men.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic explore what 'demos' really meant to the Athenians and why women were such a crucial part of Athenian democracy, asking whether it really was the precursor to modern democracy or something entirely different.

Part of Ancient Greece: City and Society

Gillian Shepherd looks at the Athenian law courts, where huge juries tried private cases and civic legislation, at the archaeological evidence for selecting juries and conducting trials, and at other features of Athenian life the Agora reveals.

Part of Myths and Legends

Athens, one of the most famous cities of the ancient world, had a royal family plagued with strangeness, from dragon kings to bird people, where even the wind or the dawn might be out to get you.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The construction, history and significance of the Parthenon, Propylaia, Temple of Athena Nike and Erechtheion, buildings that glorified Athens and served as political propaganda, and that many later considered the symbol of Classical Greece.

Part of History Unplugged Podcast

With Terry Bourcious

For almost two centuries, Athens filled most public offices and the Council of 500 by lottery, a reform from 508 BC meant to curb aristocratic control; guest Terry Bourcious argues modern democracies should adopt this sortition model too.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Robin Waterfield

Robin Waterfield's Plato of Athens (Oxford UP, 2023) follows Plato from wartime Athens through the Academy he founded, to his failed attempt to write a constitution for Syracuse.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Rosie Wyles

Rosie Wyles discusses Aristophanes as a source for ancient Greek history, with this third part focused on the Athens Depth Study of the Ancient History A Level syllabus.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This part covers the new school in Athens: the school property, ranks and titles, personnel and students, reverence, images and friendship.

Part of Instant Classics

Mary and Charlotte examine Greek theatre festivals in Ancient Athens, from military parades and hymn singing to processions of unmarried girls, orphans and large phalluses, and ask if women could attend.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Michael Leese

Michael Leese's Making Money in Ancient Athens (U Michigan Press, 2021) reads inscriptions and lawsuit speeches to argue Athenians practiced rational, profit-driven economic strategies.

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

With Demetra Kasimis

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Ferdia Lennon

Ferdia Lennon, winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024, discusses his novel Glorious Exploits, set in Syracuse after the Athenian invasion of Sicily during the Peloponnesian War.

Part of Ancient Greece: City and Society

With Heather Sebo

Heather Sebo examines Herakles and Theseus, Athenian heroes renowned for ridding the world of monsters, showing how their myths could be manipulated to reflect the priorities of 6th century and democratic Athens.

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

Part of History Unplugged Podcast

With Matt Gatton

Socrates remains renowned over two thousand years after his death; impiety, a lack of reverence for the gods, was a religious crime in Athens, and from the perspective of the religious authorities of the time that charge was warranted.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd traces the black and red figure vases made in Athens between the seventh and fourth centuries BC and exported across the Greek world, reading their scenes of warfare and women for evidence of daily life.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Andrew Walker White

Dr Andrew Walker White of George Mason University discusses how the 5th century BCE shaped Athenian theatre, a period formative for the industry as a whole.

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

This episode traces the phallic origins of Athenian theatre and retells Euripides' Cyclops, the only surviving satyr play.

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

Mythology Meets History: the myths of Theseus, an oh-so-problematic and generally awful guy, are uniquely Athenian, tying mythological heroes to Athenian might and Homeric tradition.

Part of Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast

Clif Mark asks why a reasonable, well-intentioned Athenian might have voted to kill the 70-year-old Socrates, why politics might get interested in you, and what separates morality tales from philosophy tales.

Part of Myth Madness: A Mythology Podcast

Childless Athenian king Aegeus, advised unhelpfully by the Oracle of Delphi, visited his friend Pittheus; the pregnancy of Pittheus's daughter Aethra produced Theseus, who later set out to meet his father, facing dangerous characters.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode traces how scholars reconstruct the sound of classical Greek before offering pointers on pronouncing difficult Greek words and names encountered by students of Greek history.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Rosie Wyles

In this bitesize revision episode Rosie Wyles and James work through Aristophanes' Clouds, one of the set sources for the Athens Depth Study on the Ancient History A Level syllabus.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

This chapter continues Theseus's journey toward Athens, picking up right where the previous episode left him still travelling.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

An episode swap with Ancient History Hound tells of the Haloa, an ancient Athenian winter festival honouring the goddess Demeter, held during or around December and January.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Rosie Wyles

A revision episode on Aristophanes' comedy Thesmophoriazusae, one of the Athens Depth Study sources for the Ancient History A Level syllabus, with Rosie Wyles guiding James through the text.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

The Eumenides closes out Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, bringing the whole cycle to its final resolution.

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