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68 entries · 54 hours · 22 shows
68 entries about Persia, spread across 22 shows and 54 hours, from Dark Age and Archaic Greece to Greek Life, Thought and the Wider World. Most come from Casting Through Ancient Greece (9), The Ancients (9) and Tides of History (8). The longest single entry is 034. The History of Persia with Trevor Culley, from Spartan History Podcast, at 108 minutes. Everything below is sorted by century, so the argument comes in the order it happened.
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Start Here the whole story, front to back · 1
A podcast on the history of Persia and the empires that ruled there, beginning with Cyrus the Great; only the Greek episodes are here, 87 of 219, 5 eras, 55 hours.
Dark Age and Archaic Greece 1100 - 480 BC · 1
Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)
Kagan credits the tyranny of the Peisistratids with seeding self-government, which Cleisthenes used to push Athens toward democracy by restructuring the tribes and empowering the assembly, then explains ostracism's role.
The Persian Wars 499 - 449 BC · 47
Part of Spartan History Podcast
With Trevor Culley
Trevor Culley, host of the History of Persia Podcast, introduces the Persian empire as the greatest threat Greek city-states faced until the Roman conquest of Greece in the 2nd century BCE, reaching the 5th century outbreak of Greco-Persian hostilities.
Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece
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 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 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.
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 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 Have Toga, Will Travel: Exploring Greece and Rome, Ancient and Modern
Emily and Cam trace Xerxes's decision to invade Greece and his expedition toward the Battle of Thermopylae, with a brief digression on the film 300.
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
Herodotos, the Father of History, with his influences, drawbacks and positives, then the Near East of the 7th and early 6th centuries BC: Medes and Neo-Babylonians destroying Assyria, and Kyros of Anshan overthrowing the Medes.
In the final part of a four-part series, Emily and Cam cover the Battle of Salamis and the Battle of Plataea, closing with the Serpent Column as a monument to Greek victory.
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 Warfare Podcast
The team discusses magazine issue XIV.4, The Greco-Persian Wars, on how by the late sixth century BC it had become clear that the expanding Persian Empire and the Greek city states of Asia and the Aegean would soon collide.
Part of The Ancients · History Hit's interview show; only the Greek episodes are indexed
In 480BC the Persian Empire invaded Greece, and Themistocles had a plan: the mines of Laurion, Athens against Aegina, the battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium, the Wooden Wall, and the Battle of Salamis.
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 Epic Greek History
The episode opens a two-part account of the Persian Empire's rise, arguing no historical event loomed larger for ancient Greeks than their defense against Persian military power.
The first of two episodes on the Greco-Persian Wars through the eyes of Themistocles: his childhood and the Athenian Revolution, democracy's early challenges, the demagogue, the Ionian Revolt, and Marathon.
Part of Epic Greek History · From Mycenaean kings through the Persian invasions, one full and one short episode a month
Sara and Sam continue their Age of Empires 2 campaign into the Persian War, covering ostracism procedures, wily old Themistocles, and Sara's waning tolerance for podcasting while pregnant.
The episode follows Cambyses the Second subduing Egypt after the death of Cyrus in 530 BCE, then covers Darius the First reorganizing the empire and introducing Persian coinage.
The Greco-Persian wars' genesis is traced to the Ionian revolt, led by Aristagoras of Miletus, whose tyranny was underpinned by his father-in-law Histiaeus, setting the path toward Marathon, Thermopylae, Plataea and Salamis.
Part of HistoryExtra podcast
With Jamie Fraser, Kelly Accetta Crowe
Curators Jamie Fraser and Kelly Accetta Crowe tell Emily Briffett how Greek soldiers who captured the Persian king's command tent during the Greco-Persian wars saw its decadence as the reason for the Persians' downfall.
Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War
Dr Gillian Shepherd traces Athens from the benevolent rule of the tyrant Peisistratos through the fall of his dynasty to democracy, and on to the battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataea against the invading Persians.
Stanford archaeologist Ian Morris examines the economies and technologies behind the Greek victory over the biggest invasion force that had ever been launched, in the Persian expeditions of 490-479 BC.
Part of The Classics Podcast
With Roel Konijnendijk, Lynette Mitchell
Roel Konijnendijk and Lynette Mitchell begin exploring the reasons for the Greek victory over the Persians in 480 to 479 BCE, the first of six episodes on Greek history in Season 1 of this A Level series.
Emily and Cam continue the Persian-Greek conflict series, covering Cyrus's son Cambyses, the rise of Darius, and Darius's relationships with Greeks along his empire's western frontier.
A look back at the 18 episodes on the Greco-Persian Wars, from the Ionian revolt through the two invasions, framed by Herodotus, who was born during the wars and later collected all he could.
Persia's side of defeat, asking why an army that size failed to capture Greece and whether equipment, training or reliance on various nations undid it, and how an empire left intact was affected.
The team discusses magazine issue XVII.4, on how, after the Persians were defeated at Salamis and Plataea and withdrew from the Greek mainland, the war was far from over as the Greeks went on the offensive.
Covering the Ionian Revolt to the Battle of Marathon, the episode argues the Persian Wars were far more complicated than a simple civilizational clash, and sets out the background that made them possible.
Part of Tides of History · Patrick Wyman's survey of the deep past; only the Greek episodes are indexed
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
Aeschylus's Persians stands as the oldest surviving Greek tragedy, offering what Emily and Cam call a surprisingly sympathetic take on Athens's ancient Persian enemies.
Roel Konijnendijk and Lynette Mitchell conclude their exploration of why the Greeks defeated the Persians in 480 to 479 BCE, the second half of the opening episode in this Ancient History A Level season.
Part of Dan Snow's History Hit · Dan Snow on history's defining moments; only the Greek episodes are indexed
With William Shepherd
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.
The third player before the Greco-Persian Wars: the Persians, a relatively small group in the Zagros Mountains, expand under Cyrus the Great, absorb the Lydian Empire and create the largest empire the world had yet known.
Part of Ancient History Hound
Starting from the mythical foundation of Thebes, this episode moves through the very real aftermath of the Persian invasion, with athletic cows, wedding drama and walls along the way.
In the spring of 479 BC the allied Greeks' land forces met the Persian army at Plataea, and the legacy of the Persian Wars would shape memory, identity and the future relationship between Greeks and Persians for decades and centuries.
Persia after Cyrus: Cambyses conquers Egypt and dies amid a crisis, a pretender holds power for seven months, and Darius, one of the conspiring nobles, becomes king, expands the empire and collides with the Greeks.
Between the invasions: Miltiades falls from favour, Persia faces revolts in Egypt and Babylon, Darius dies of an illness, and his son Xerxes assembles an army larger than anything before it in the ancient world.
Darius, reportedly reminded at meals to remember the Athenians, sends two campaigns: one undone by a storm off Mt Athos and Thracian resistance, then an island-hopping fleet that lays waste to Eretria and reaches Marathon Bay.
Part of History of Persia
After Sardis burns, more Greek cities join the Ionian Revolt despite Persian victory at Ephesus; three Persian generals campaign through 497 and 496 BCE until Aristagoras of Miletus flees the failing revolt into exile.
Part of Kings and Generals
Greek and Persian civilizations fight for millennia, and the battle of Salamis in 480 BC stands as the central defence of free Greece against the Persian invasion.
The Armies and Tactics series makes its debut by covering how the armies, tactics, formations and weaponry of the ancient Greeks changed during the Persian invasions.
Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast
Herodotus at his most wonderfully weird, advanced imperial administration and the question of decadence all come up in this prelude on the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Classical Athens and Sparta 479 - 386 BC · 4
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.
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 Casting Through Ancient Greece · The same centuries again, at a slower pace and with the sources named
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.
Philip and Alexander 359 - 323 BC · 10
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.
Taking place in 334 BC, the Battle of Granicus was Alexander the Great's first major victory against the Persian Empire; Tristan and Adrian Goldsworthy discuss his tactics at the beginning of the campaign, before he had built his formidable reputation.
The team discusses magazine issue XVI.6, Alexander versus Darius, on how the king of Macedon, at just 20, spent two years securing his northern borders and Greece before crossing the Hellespont in 334 to invade Achaemenid Persia.
The episode follows Alexander the Great's campaigns beyond his defeat of the Persian king Darius III, into the Iranian Plateau, Central Asia, and finally south into India.
In this second part Alexander begins a full-blooded assault on the Persian Gates, and Tristan finds out how this battle for the Persian heartlands, dubbed the Persian Thermopylae, ended.
In January 330 BC a small Persian force blockaded Alexander's route through the Zagros Mountains at the Persian, or Susian, Gates; Tristan covers the events following Alexander's victory at Gaugamela that led to this clash, dubbed the Persian Thermopylae.
With Ali Ansari
The Hellenistic Age 323 - 31 BC · 1
Iranian civilization outlives the conquest of Persia as dynasties rule in their own right, among them Mithridates I Ktistes of Pontus, Orontes I of Armenia, and Amastris, last Achaemenid princess and first Hellenistic queen.
Greek Life, Thought and the Wider World across the centuries · 4
Trevor Culley of the History of Persia Podcast on Oliver Stone's 2004 Alexander, a critical failure on release whose re-cuts have been praised as among the most historically accurate films of the ancient world.
Part of Young Heretics
With Alex Priou
Classicist Alex Priou discusses his book on Plato's Symposium with Spencer Klavan, covering the true meaning of love, the limits of science, and the significance of prose style in philosophy.
Part of Young Heretics · Spencer Klavan on the great works; only the Greek episodes are indexed
With Tom Holland
Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization
This episode covers Aeschylus's The Persians, using an old Robert Potter translation, which the host says listeners may swap for whichever translation is easily available.