Podcast Episodes

115: Meet the Neighbors #1

In a new recurring episode format, it's time to meet the neighbors, specifically the Nanda Dynasty of India. Of course, India's been here the whole t…

2 years, 8 months ago

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114: The Age of Heroes

After the conquests of Alexander the Great, the history of the Achaemenids slipped into legend, myth, and obscurity. By the 6th Century CE, the likes…

2 years, 9 months ago

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113: Alexander - King of the Monsters

In the centuries following Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian Empire, Iranian cultural memory changed and shifted, often in strange and un…

2 years, 10 months ago

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Join me at Intelligent Speech 2023

Join me at the Intelligent Speech Conference this Saturday, November 4 at 10am est. Here's last year's presentation before you come hear me talk abou…

2 years, 10 months ago

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112: King Darius Escapes

In the final weeks of 331 BCE, Alexander the Great took Babylon, Susa, and Persepolis almost entirely unopposed. By May 330, he had claimed Ecbatana …

2 years, 10 months ago

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111: The Man Who Could Walk Through Empires

After Darius III's defeat at Gaugamela, Alexander the Great tore through the Persian capitals, taking Babylon and Susa without a fight, and only stal…

2 years, 10 months ago

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110: Hercules in New War-k

Alexander the Great and Darius III square off in the Battle of Gaugamela, the Macedonians' first strike to take a Persian capital in Babylonia.

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2 years, 11 months ago

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109 From Outer Egypt

Following his victory at Tyre, Alexander proceeded to take Egypt without much of a fight, but while he was there, the Macedonian Monarch did some min…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Bonus Teaser: Persia in the Renaissance

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2 years, 11 months ago

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108: Dr. Alexander's Levant of Horrors

After the Battle of Issus, Alexander the Great and the Macedonian invasion force began working their way down the western coast of the Persian Empire…

3 years ago

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