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Summer Mailbag! Patrick Answers Your Questions
Aug 01, 2024It's time for another mailbag! Patrick answers questions about the Axial Age, the best places to see Iron Age archaeology, and how to be a discerning consumer of history. Patrick's book is now availa...
The Aftermath of the Peloponnesian War and the March of the 10,000 Greeks
Jul 25, 2024The famous Greco-Persian Wars didn't mark the end of the relationship between Persia and Greece, but its beginning. For the next 150 years, the seemingly internal politics of the Greek world became in...
The Samnites and the Alternative to Rome
Jul 18, 2024We tend to think of Rome's rise to power in Italy as inevitable, but it was far from guaranteed. Their most fearsome enemies within the Italian peninsula were the Samnites, hill-people from the mounta...
Summer Reading Recommendations
Jul 11, 2024It's summer, which means it's time for some pleasure reading! Here are seven books that Patrick is recommending for your next summer reads: 1) Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral H...
The Roman Conquest of Italy
Jul 04, 2024At the beginning of the 4th century BC, Rome was still not the dominant force in Latium, the small region surrounding the city; by the end of that century, Rome was the dominant power in all of Italy....
The Great Gender Divergence: Interview with Dr. Alice Evans
Jun 27, 2024Gender is one of the fundamental forces structuring our world, but its impact is uneven in time and space. Dr. Alice Evans joins me to talk about the enormous strides toward gender equality that have ...
Rome's Patrician Republic
Jun 20, 2024By 450 BC, the Roman Republic was beginning to take on the outlines of a form we recognize, with elected magistrates, a Senate, and written laws. But these were hard times for Rome, and there was no g...
The Birth of the Roman Republic
Jun 13, 2024In 509 BC, the last king of Rome - Tarquinius Superbus - was expelled from the city, and the Republic was born. But what do we actually know about the early years of the Republic? Not much, and what w...
The Greatest Dynasty of Medieval France: Interview with Professor Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Jun 06, 2024It's been a while since Tides of History has gone to the Middle Ages, and a wonderful new book - House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France - provides us with the opportunity to return. Pr...
Sicily, Defeat, and the End of the Athenian Empire
May 30, 2024The Peloponnesian War lasted for nearly 30 years, decades of ceaseless battles, sieges, and human misery that covered the whole of Greece. In the end, Athens' fate was decided not in Greece itself but...