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Living and Working in Imperial Babylonia
Season 5 Episode 150
We don't usually think of the Neo-Babylonian Empire as one of the economic powerhouses of the ancient world, but this short-lived state actually over…
1 year ago
The Ancient Economy from Assyria to Augustus
Season 5 Episode 149
What was the ancient economy? Can we even speak of such a singular thing? Today, I introduce the next block of episodes on Tides, an in-depth examina…
1 year ago
Interview with Dr. Owen Rees (Book, The Far Edges of the Known World releases 9/30/25)
Season 5 Episode 148
The ancient world was a lot bigger than Greece and Rome. Dr. Owen Rees joins me to discuss his new book on this broader conception of antiquity - The…
1 year ago
Thucydides, the Greatest Historian of All Time: Interview with Robin Waterfield and Professor Polly Low
Season 5 Episode 147
Thucydides is perhaps the greatest historian to ever live, a man whose work on the Peloponnesian War has been read, digested, and debated for more th…
1 year ago
The Celts Invade Greece
Season 5 Episode 146
The Celts invaded Greece in 280-279 BC, an entirely unforeseen breakthrough of a nearly unknown people into the mainstream of the Hellenistic world. …
1 year, 1 month ago
Alexander's Successors and the Danube Frontier
Season 5 Episode 145
While Alexander the Great's successors were fighting over control of his empire, Celtic-speaking migrants were moving east along the Danube River, mo…
1 year, 1 month ago
The First Cities North of the Alps: Interview with Professor Manuel Fernandez-Götz
Season 5 Episode 144
The European Iron Age is known almost solely through archaeology, and the material record of the period is still showing us fascinating new aspects o…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Celts of the East and the Iron Age Balkans
Season 5 Episode 143
We're most familiar with the Celts of the west, the people who eventually fought Julius Caesar in Gaul and left their languages along the Atlantic fr…
1 year, 1 month ago
Rome's Deadliest Enemies: The Gauls of Italy
Season 5 Episode 142
When we think of Rome's most dangerous foes, our attention usually turns to Hannibal and his ilk, but it was really the Gauls of northern Italy who t…
1 year, 1 month ago
Celts and the European Iron Age
Season 5 Episode 141
We have long thought of the Celts (or Gauls) as the antithesis of the ""civilized"" cultures of the Mediterranean, but new research shows that they w…
1 year, 2 months ago