Episode 17: The Lives of Alcibiades and Nicias – Part 3 – The Conclusion.

In part Three, with the fall of Nicias during the Sicilian campaign,  and Athens only other able bodied general, Alcibiades defecting to the Spartans, things seemed grim for Athens. But a series of surprising and interesting  string of events would ultimately  save Athens from their enemies external and internal. Check the latest episode below. Thanks

Episode 16: The Lives of Alcibiades and Nicias – Part 2 – Season 2

In part Two, Alcibiades and Nicias take a trip to Sicily where fate hands both very different outcomes. Check the latest episode below. Thanks for listening, hope you enjoyed. Feel free to post your thoughts in the comments! Chris & Ryan

Episode 15: The Lives of Alcibiades and Nicias – Part 1 – Season 2 Opening Episode

In this episode, we will take on the lives of two Athenians who would step into the void left behind by Pericles:  these would be Alcibiades and Nicias. They were polar opposites, but both would rise to prominence in a post Pericles Athens. Check the latest episode below. Thanks for listening, hope you enjoyed. Feel

Episode 14: The Life of Coriolanus – Part 2 – Season 1 Finale

In part one of Coriolanus, we left off during the consular elections with Coriolanus well positioned to make history becoming a Roman Consul. What comes next shook the Roman world and landed Coriolanus in the pages of history. Listen to the conclusion of the life of Coriolanus Thanks for listening, hope you enjoyed. Feel free

Episode 12: The Life of Pericles – Part 2

Pericles had reached heights of political power never achieved before in democratic Athens but the threat of war looms on the horizon for both the city and Greece as a whole. Listen to the conclusion of the life of Pericles Check the latest episode below. Thanks for listening, hope you enjoyed. Feel free to post

Episode 11: The Life of Pericles – Part 1

At the end of the last episode about the Life of Cimon we mentioned how after the Spartan’ssnubbed Athens’s help in dealing with their Helot slave rebellion, that Cimon lost popularity in Athens, due to to his well-known and long-standing pro-Spartan views and Cimon came out on the losing end of an ostracism vote in

Episode 10: The Life of Cimon –

Hery everyone, Big news we just dropped our Tenth episode! We are super excited and we wouldn’t have made it this far without you our listeners. We hope everyone is enjoying the episodes! So without further a due, check out our latest episode, the Life of Cimon. Having narrowly survived the invasion of Xerxes massive

Episode 7: The Lives of Themistocles and Aristides

Photo Left: By Photo: Brogi – Greece from the Coming of the Hellenes to AD. 14, page 109., CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94187222 Photo Right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristides Episode Summary Aristides and Themistocles came of age as tyranny in Athens was coming to an end and the world’s first democracy in Athens had been recently established! It was a brave

Episode 5, The Life of Solon

The Life of Solon

Episode 3: The Life of Lycurgus

Lycurgus was the man who gave Sparta it’s laws and transformed it into a polis like no other – a warrior-society which would produce the most fearsome soldiers of the Ancient World.  Welcome to Episode 3! Checkout the full episode below. Excerpt from today’s Episode Ryan:  So today we are going to take on the life