The Ancient World

From the first human civilizations to the Hellenistic and Roman eras

History
1
Episode A17 - Land Gave Me to Land
36 min
2
Episode A16 - Contact
35 min
3
Episode A15 - Band of Brothers
36 min
4
Episode A14 - Fame Imperishable
33 min
5
Episode A13 - The Steppe and The Sewn
32 min
6
Episode A12 - The Flood
49 min
7
Episode A11 - Behind the Mountains
51 min
8
Episode A10 - The Sword of Sumer
41 min
9
Episode A9 - Seventy Kings
30 min
10
Episode A8 - Who Was King
41 min
11
Episode A7 - The Abode of Clouds
38 min
12
Episode A6 - The Reign of Ishtar
50 min
13
Episode A5 - The Cupbearer
47 min
14
Episode A4 - The Pinnacle
48 min
15
Bonus Feed-Swap with The History of Egypt Podcast
46 min
16
Episode A3 - Kings of Kish
50 min
17
Episode A2 - The First Royal House
47 min
18
Episode A1 - The Four Quarters
39 min
19
Episode S8 - Decumbo
Synopsis: Part 2 of a two-part Spotlight series on the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Galerius: refugee, herdsman, soldier, Caesar, Augustus, Tetrarch, conqueror, schemer, would-be ruler of the (Dacian?) Empire, and persecutor of the Christians. A rollicking Third Century romp inspired by my current residence in his former tetrarchal capital of Thessaloniki, Greece.
34 min
20
Episode S7 - Ascendo
Synopsis: Part 1 of a two-part Spotlight series on the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Galerius: refugee, herdsman, soldier, Caesar, Augustus, Tetrarch, conqueror, schemer, would-be ruler of the (Dacian?) Empire, and persecutor of the Christians. A rollicking Third Century romp inspired by my current residence in his former tetrarchal capital of Thessaloniki, Greece.
30 min
21
Episode C30 - The Death of Kings
26 min
22
Episode C29 - City of the Raven
30 min
23
Episode C28 - The Fall of Carchemish
37 min
24
Episode C27 - True King
26 min
25
Episode C26 - Damascus
Synopsis: Tiglath-pileser crushes rebellions in Patin and Luash and annexes their territories to Assyria. King Rasyan of Aram-Damascus forms a coalition of southern kingdoms - including Israel, Edom, Phoenicia and Philistia - to challenge Assyrian dominance, but betrayal by allies and the brutal tenacity of Tiglath-pileser lead to his kingdom’s downfall.
30 min