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History At Our House: Ancient History

Scott Powell

The History At Our House blog, providing samples of Mr Powell's unique approach to teaching history.

Episodes

19 episodes

Nobody expects the Macedonian Expedition

Here's episode 25 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head around our classroom doors here at History At Our House! Athens and the re...

5:14Oct 16, 2012

One Greek practice in the many

Here's episode 24 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! In this class, the...

6:24Oct 9, 2012

What did the Athenians ever do for us?

Here's episode 23 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! In this class, the...

9:05Sep 24, 2012

"Doesn't play well with others" - Sparta spurns Athens

Here's episode 22 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! Athens and Sparta...

10:12Sep 18, 2012

The Greco-Persian wars: a rag-tag group of rebels vs the Empire

Here's episode 21 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! The period of the...

7:55Aug 28, 2012

The destructive tensions in a society of slaveholders

Here's episode 20 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! As anyone from the...

6:46Aug 21, 2012

Athens: A terrible place to build a monarchy

Here's episode 19 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! One of the things...

7:38Aug 15, 2012

The Ancient and Spartan ideology of Communism

Here's episode 18 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! This week we're wi...

7:30Aug 6, 2012

The Peculiarly Greek Olympics

Here's episode 17 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! Well, the Olympics...

7:31Jul 31, 2012

The Limits of the Persian Empire

Here's episode 16 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round one of our classroom doors, here at History At Our House! And so we...

6:19Jul 23, 2012

The Persians as the Pyramids of Mesopotamia

Here's episode 15 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round one of our classroom doors, here at History At Our House! Why do we...

5:14Jul 16, 2012

The Persian Parallel

Here's episode 14 of the History At Our House podcast, where we let you peek your head round one of our classroom doors, here at History At...

6:04Jul 10, 2012

The Religion of the King vs the Religion of the People

Episode 13 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round one of our classroom doors, here at History At Our House! One of the common...

9:32Jul 3, 2012

The Questionable Notoriety of Nebuchadnezzar II

Episode 12 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round one of our classroom doors, here at History At Our House! One of the things...

8:04Jun 25, 2012

Socrates vs the Mob

Episode 11 of the podcast, where we let you peak your head round one of the classroom doors, here at History At Our House! We carry on with...

8:10Jun 18, 2012

Justice and the Trial of Socrates

Episode 10 of the podcast, where we let you peak your head round one of the classroom doors, here at History At Our House! This week it's so...

7:53Jun 11, 2012

The Code of Hammurabi

Episode 9 of our sneak peek inside the History At Our House classroom! This week we learn a little bit about the source of the old saying "A...

6:10Jun 5, 2012

The Nomads - and a Dark Age in Mesopotamian History

Episode 8 of our sneak peek inside the History At Our House classroom! This week, we're peeking our heads around the door of the Lower Eleme...

6:24May 28, 2012

The Mesopotamian Historical Record Begins

Episode 7 of our look inside the History At Our House classroom. This week, we look at the difference between a reliable and unreliable hist...

6:27May 21, 2012