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The Emergence of the Etruscans
Season 5 Episode 20
The Etruscans are often called "mysterious," but we actually know quite a bit about them, from their unique language to their amazing metalwork and i…
3 years, 5 months ago
Greek Colonies and Networks in the Iron Age: Interview with Dr. Lieve Donnellan
Season 5 Episode 19
One of the best ways to understand how the ancient world functioned is to think in terms of networks and interactions between people and places. Dr. …
3 years, 6 months ago
Iron Age Italy
Season 5 Episode 18
At the beginning of the Iron Age, around 950 BC, Italy was a land of farming villages; just a few centuries later, it was one of the wealthiest and m…
3 years, 6 months ago
Competition, Tyranny, and the Birth of Ancient Greece
Season 5 Episode 17
Archaic Greece went through some of the most explosive and rapid transformations of any ancient society, but why? What stands out the most is the int…
3 years, 6 months ago
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 …
3 years, 6 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 t…
3 years, 6 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 …
3 years, 7 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…
3 years, 7 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 t…
3 years, 7 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 Eg…
3 years, 7 months ago