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Patrick's New History Show, Past Lives, Launches December 3rd!
Nov 21, 2025From Patrick Wyman (host of Fall of Rome and Tides of History) comes Past Lives, a brand new podcast! Every week, we’ll focus on the lived experiences of real people from the past, bringing their stor...
Why the Hundred Years War Actually Lasted Two Hundred Years: Interview with Professor Michael Livingston
Nov 20, 2025The Hundred Years War was the defining conflict of the Middle Ages, but today's guest - Professor Michael Livingston of the Citadel - argues that it actually lasted for 200 years. That's just one prob...
The Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Iron Age Mediterranean
Nov 13, 2025As the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age, the economy of the Mediterranean shifted dramatically. It expanded to encompass the entire sea for the first time, everywhere from the Levant to Iberia, and...
Love, War, and Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age: Interview with Professor Eric Cline
Nov 06, 2025Professor Eric Cline, author of the outstanding book 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, returns to the show to discuss his new book: Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letter...
Building the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings
Oct 30, 2025Millions of people called ancient Egypt home, and the vast majority of them weren't kings or high priests; they were humble farmers and laborers making their living from the rich black soil surroundin...
The Story of Carbon Dioxide is the Story of Everything: Interview with Journalist Peter Brannen
Oct 23, 2025Carbon dioxide is central to the story of Earth from its beginning more than 4 billion years ago all the way up to the present. Peter Brannen joins me to discuss his new book - The Story of CO2 Is the...
Living and Working in Imperial Babylonia
Oct 16, 2025We don't usually think of the Neo-Babylonian Empire as one of the economic powerhouses of the ancient world, but this short-lived state actually oversaw one of the most stunning periods of economic gr...
The Ancient Economy from Assyria to Augustus
Oct 09, 2025What was the ancient economy? Can we even speak of such a singular thing? Today, I introduce the next block of episodes on Tides, an in-depth examination of the cutting edge of knowledge on the ancien...
Interview with Dr. Owen Rees (Book, The Far Edges of the Known World releases 9/30/25)
Oct 02, 2025The ancient world was a lot bigger than Greece and Rome. Dr. Owen Rees joins me to discuss his new book on this broader conception of antiquity - The Far Edges of the Known World - and we traverse the...
Thucydides, the Greatest Historian of All Time: Interview with Robin Waterfield and Professor Polly Low
Sep 25, 2025Thucydides is perhaps the greatest historian to ever live, a man whose work on the Peloponnesian War has been read, digested, and debated for more than 2400 years. Robin Waterfield and Professor Polly...