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Understanding the Alien World of Ancient Greece: Interview with Professor Greg Anderson
May 23, 2024It's often said that the past is a foreign country, where our basic assumptions about how the world is supposed to work don't apply. But what does that mean for the practice of history? Professor Greg...
The Peloponnesian War, Part 1: Plague, Attrition, and a Decade of Bloodshed
May 15, 2024When the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta finally broke out in 431 BC, it was small conflicts on the fringes of the Greek world that pulled the two states into conflict. Thousands upon thou...
The Athenian Empire and the Coming of the Peloponnesian War
May 09, 2024The Peloponnesian War, the epic 30-year conflict between Athens and Sparta for control of Classical Greece, was a long time in coming. In fact, its roots went back to the Persian Wars, when Athens sei...
What Made Classical Greece Special? Interview with Professor Josiah Ober
May 02, 2024We're often told that Classical Greece lies at the root of our modern world in some way, but what made it a special place? Professor Josiah Ober, author of The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, joins...
Warlords, War, and Society in Early Rome: Interview with Professor Jeremy Armstrong
Apr 25, 2024Rome and war are inseparable topics, but how far back does their connection go? What was war like in the earliest days of the city's rise to prominence? Professor Jeremy Armstrong is an expert on earl...
Classical Greece
Apr 18, 2024We're often told that Greece's Classical period lies at the root of "Western Civilization," but what was actually special about that time and place? Why did it produce so many works of literature, art...
Carthage, Syracuse, and the Battle for Sicily
Apr 11, 2024By 480 BC, the same year Xerxes and the Persians descended on Greece, Sicily had become a battleground for the rising powers of the Central Mediterranean: Carthage, on one side, and the Greek colony o...
The Archaeology of the Indus Valley Civilization: Interview with Professor Cameron Petrie
Apr 04, 2024Archaeology is changing quickly, and few people are playing more of a direct role in the wave of fascinating new studies exploring the Indus Valley Civilization, South Asia, and Iran than Professor Ca...
The Rise of Carthage
Mar 28, 2024Carthage is known mostly as Rome's great rival, but it was a fascinating and meaningful Mediterranean civilization in its own right. Today, we track the rise of Carthage from its foundation as a Phoen...
The Mediterranean World in 500 BC
Mar 21, 2024After our long sojourn in Central, East, and South Asia, it's time to return to a Mediterranean on the cusp of enormous changes. Around 500 BC, Rome was shedding its kings, Carthage was about to becom...