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Encore: Jakob Fugger: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived?
Jul 10, 2025At the end of the fifteenth century, the center of European banking suddenly swung from its birthplace in Italy to south Germany. The key figure in that transition was Jakob Fugger of Augsburg, maybe ...
Encore: The Rise and Fall of the Medici Bank
Jul 08, 2025The Medici name still carries echoes of power and labyrinthine politics. But the Medici got their start as bankers, and built a financial empire that spanned fifteenth-century Europe. Popes, kings, an...
The Roman Conquest of the Hellenistic World
Jul 03, 2025For most of its history, Rome barely bothered with the Greek east. Then, quite suddenly, Rome exploded onto the scene, laying low the two most powerful Hellenistic warrior-kings of the past century. W...
Who was Thomas More? Interview with Dr. Joanne Paul
Jun 26, 2025Thomas More is one of the most fascinating figures of the 16th century: saint, persecutor of Protestants, government official, martyr. But who was he, really? Dr. Joanne Paul has written a wonderful n...
Rome Enters the Hellenistic World
Jun 19, 2025For most of its history, the Roman Republic had little to do with the Greek East. That changed at the end of the third century BC. As the war against Hannibal reached its conclusion, momentous things ...
War and the Hellenistic World
Jun 12, 2025The Hellenistic world stretched from Sicily to India and encompassed tens of millions of people for centuries, as new kingdoms sprang up, new ways of life emerged, and the distant edges of that world ...
On Ancient History and Our Shared Heritage: Interview with Professor Walter Scheidel
Jun 05, 2025Why does ancient history matter? Stanford's Professor Walter Scheidel returns to Tides to discuss his new book, What is Ancient History?, and provides an answer: The distant past is nothing more or le...
The Final Defeat of Hannibal Barca
May 29, 2025More than any other individual, Hannibal defined the Second Punic War. But after his crushing victory at Cannae, Hannibal never again came so close to finishing off Rome. At Zama, in 202 BC, he finall...
Why Was Carthage Such a Threat to Rome? Interview with Dr. Bret Devereaux, Part 2
May 22, 2025Dr. Bret Devereaux returns to the show to discuss why, exactly, Carthage was such a threat to the Roman Republic. The answer lies in the fact that more than any other state in the ancient world, Carth...
The Rise of Scipio Africanus and the War in Iberia
May 15, 2025Most of Rome's generals were competent but not outstanding, which was more than enough for a power with Rome's structural advantages. Yet the Second Punic War did produce one extraordinary military le...