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Past Lives: Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire
Season 5 Episode 43
Check out Patrick's new show, Past Lives! You can listen on your platform of choice through the links here, and be sure to subscribe to the Patreon f…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Mailbag!
Season 5 Episode 164
It's been quite a while since I've answered listener questions, so here are a bunch on everything from the best depictions of siege warfare in movies…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Recent Discoveries in the Ancient Americas: Professor Shane Miller Returns
Season 5 Episode 163
Every year, new archaeological discoveries claim to rewrite what we think we knew about the ancient Americas, but how much can we trust the initial r…
9 months ago
Doing Business in Mid-Republican Rome
Season 5 Episode 162
The rise of the Roman Republic was built on conquest and war, but also on the massively expanding economy of Italy as a whole and Rome in particular.…
9 months, 1 week ago
Interview with Professor Tom Birkett on "Runes: A Concise History"
Season 5 Episode 161
Runic writing carries connotations of magic and fantasy, but it was a widespread, useful, and long-lasting system of writing. Professor Tom Birkett h…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
How Alexander the Great's Soldiers Spent Their Money
Season 5 Episode 160
Let's imagine a Macedonian soldier during the time of Alexander the Great. How did this man, whom we'll call Red Cleitus, spend the vast amounts of c…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Two Murders at the Dawn of History (Lost Worlds Audiobook Preview)
Season 5 Episode 159
Patrick's new book, Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World, launches May 5th, 2026! Check out this audiobook preview c…
10 months ago
Past Lives: Nanaya'ila'i and the Bleeding Edge of the Assyrian Empire
Season 5 Episode 43
Check out a scripted episode of Patrick's new show, Past Lives!
Nearly 2,700 years ago, a woman and her daughter were ripped away from their homes in …
10 months ago
The Economic Life of Megakles, Farmer of Classical Athens
Season 5 Episode 158
We've talked about how rich classical Athens was, but what did that mean for an average person living at the time? In this episode, we follow the lif…
10 months, 1 week ago
Doing History through Movies: Interview with Dr. Jason Herbert
Season 5 Episode 157
Like many of you, I first fell in love with history through the movies. Dr. Jason Herbert hosted a podcast called Historians at the Movies, now retit…
10 months, 2 weeks ago