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The Celts Invade Greece
Sep 11, 2025The Celts invaded Greece in 280-279 BC, an entirely unforeseen breakthrough of a nearly unknown people into the mainstream of the Hellenistic world. Tens of thousands of Celts poured through the passe...
Alexander's Successors and the Danube Frontier
Sep 11, 2025While Alexander the Great's successors were fighting over control of his empire, Celtic-speaking migrants were moving east along the Danube River, mostly unseen and unnoticed by the Greeks to their so...
The First Cities North of the Alps: Interview with Professor Manuel Fernandez-Götz
Sep 04, 2025The European Iron Age is known almost solely through archaeology, and the material record of the period is still showing us fascinating new aspects of ancient life. Professor Manuel Fernandez-Götz of ...
The Celts of the East and the Iron Age Balkans
Aug 28, 2025We're most familiar with the Celts of the west, the people who eventually fought Julius Caesar in Gaul and left their languages along the Atlantic fringe. Yet thanks to mass migrations to the east, th...
Rome's Deadliest Enemies: The Gauls of Italy
Aug 21, 2025When we think of Rome's most dangerous foes, our attention usually turns to Hannibal and his ilk, but it was really the Gauls of northern Italy who troubled Romans the most, and for the longest period...
Celts and the European Iron Age
Aug 14, 2025We have long thought of the Celts (or Gauls) as the antithesis of the ""civilized"" cultures of the Mediterranean, but new research shows that they were building cities and states at the same time as ...
The Forgotten Power-Broker of the Roman Republic: Interview with Professor Douglas Boin
Aug 07, 2025Most people today remember the Roman aristocratic woman Clodia as the target of one of Cicero's nastiest works, but Douglas Boin has written a wonderful new book - Clodia of Rome - that recovers just ...
How the Horse Changed the World: Interview with Author David Chaffetz
Jul 31, 2025David Chaffetz, author of the recent and truly outstanding book Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires, joins Tides to talk about the long and intertwined history of horses an...
Why Did Rome Win?
Jul 24, 2025Why did Rome win? It's a simple question, but the answer is anything but. To figure it out, we have to look not only at what made Rome special but also at its adversaries. Only then can we understand ...
Guerrilla Warfare and Insurgency in the American Civil War: Interview with Professor Andrew Fialka
Jul 17, 2025We usually think of the American Civil War as a conflict fought between massive armies at famous battlefields like Gettysburg, but that's not really accurate: Much of the war was actually made up of g...