Podcast Episodes

Sicily and the Making of the Greek Mediterranean

Season 5 Episode 16

In the space of just a few decades toward the end of the 8th century BC, Greek colonies sprang up across across southern Italy and Sicily. These new foundations would become the heart of the Greek wo…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

How Data Happened: Professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones on the History of Data

Season 5 Episode 15

Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones, authors of the new book How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms, join Patrick to discuss the history of data, why enumerating thi…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Who Were the Phoenicians? Interview with Professor Carolina Lopez-Ruiz

Season 5 Episode 14

Despite their obvious importance to understanding the Iron Age and Classical Mediterranean, the Phoenicians remain something of an enigma. Professor Carolina Lopez-Ruiz is one of the world's leading …

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

The Roots of Archaic Greece

Season 5 Episode 13

In the year 800 BC, Greece was an unremarkable corner of the Aegean. Over the next century, however, it underwent a remarkable transformation. Greece's population exploded, cities came into being, lo…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

The Phoenician Mediterranean

Season 5 Episode 12

Soon after 1000 BC, Phoenicians began to take ever-longer voyages away from their homeland. Within just a few decades, they were already present at the far end of the Mediterranean and even further, …

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

The Emergence of Phoenicia

Season 5 Episode 11

Few places weathered the Bronze Age Collapse better than the Levant, the strip of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean that runs from Syria to Egypt. One small part of that coastline, mostly in w…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

How to Write Historical Fiction | Interview with historian and author Dan Jones on his new novel Essex Dogs

Season 5 Episode 10

Every historian I know has a secret dream of writing historical fiction, but few ever do it. Dan Jones, a longtime friend of Tides of History and an outstanding historian, has actually done it: Essex…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Greece's Dark Age

Season 5 Episode 9

After the Bronze Age Collapse, Greece changed dramatically. The palaces were gone, long-distance trade declined, and crafts became much simpler. Most of all, there were fewer people living in Greece …

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Wondery Presents: Stolen Hearts

Sergeant Jill Evans is a small town cop in Wales with an impressive record in her job, and a less than impressive record in her love life. After three engagements, two divorces and one affair, she’s …

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

The Global Mediterranean of the Iron Age: Interview with Professor Tamar Hodos

Season 5 Episode 8

The Iron Age Mediterranean's new density of connections between people and places was about more than the economy and trade; it also remade the culture of the whole region, bringing new ideas and pra…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago