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HITM uses character focused storytelling to convey the ideas of the past that have shaped us today. We dive into wars and politics to see how the values of nations and their populations have...
Thank you all for listening over the years. The show will going dormant for a while but I hope we can continue our stories in the future. Fe...
Today we welcome Dr. John Hale to the show, author of the book Lords of the Sea. It is a compelling look at the history of Athens, largely f...
Today we welcome Dr. Melissa Lane to the show, author of the book The Birth of Politics. Her book was the final straw in convincing me to st...
Athens leaves us their legacy in the Season 1 finale. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1604.html
The Peloponnesian War comes to a sudden and unexpected end. The defeated will face the fate the victor thinks it deserves. We witness both t...
More than twenty years into the Peloponnesian War Athens has given nearly everything to the fight, but more is required. Sparta requests pea...
Athens is broke. The sole hope for retaining its empire rests in their fleet of triremes at Samos. To make matters worse a Spartan fleet, su...
After the disaster of the Sicilian Expedition, the largest defeat in the history of Athenian Democracy, the whole Mediterranean world expect...
Nicias and Alcibiades have both gained political power but can’t push past the other. The gridlock is broken when representatives from a Sic...
Nicias and Alcibiades struggle for control of Athens after a power vacuum appears. The back and forth leads to an Athens that pursues no gra...
Bolstered by a recent victory, Athens follows Cleon further into war in hopes of achieving absolute victory. There are many areas where vict...
After many years of a brawler fight something has to give. A daring general in Athens considers new strategies while playwrights bring the f...
Fear and anger can convince us to do terrible things. It is often only once we take time to collect ourselves that we see how outrageous our...
Things get beautiful around minute 15. At a funeral, we discuss what makes a life worth living and, in doing so, we reveal the things we tru...
Athens and Corinth take the preemptive measure of fighting a battle to avoid a war. This works about as well as it sounds. A series of confe...
The Greek world is getting smaller. Athens and Sparta are the sole dominating powers in Greece and cities are forced to consider what sides...
A lone woman comes to Athens. In a span of six years she somehow becomes a household name. Meanwhile, Athens tries to find some more permane...
Are you tired of being in Athens’ alliance? No one cares. Athens develops various carrots and sticks to make friends and keep rebellions in...
Democracy reaches its peak in Athens as the city reaches east to Egypt and war at last breaks out with Sparta. The power of Athens’ version...
Athens swells into an economic powerhouse and plays with the idea of trying on an empire. Many of the most powerful men in Greece are reshuf...
Before there was the Roman Empire there was the Roman Republic. Before the Athenian Empire, there was the Delian League. Greece is split dow...
This special, full-length episode frames the Battle of Plataea with voting practices of the ancient world. As it turns out, voting in Sparta...
We all have that friend who is over the top reckless, but they have nothing on Themistocles. Themistocles gambles it all in the culmination...
The full force of Persia is directed against Greece. A fragile Greek alliance attempts to withstand the blow at the Battle of Thermopylae. M...
The gloves come off. Themistocles and Aristides face off in the Assembly. Distant scuffles between Athens and Persia flame up into full scal...
An emboldened Athens sails across the Aegean to support revolts against Persia. In doing so they eventually gain the undivided attention of...
International politics suck a willing Athens into tangling with Persia while Sparta considers converting the Athenian government by force. W...
Sparta is more than spears, although there are also plenty of spears. We wade through the murky history of Sparta while watching their migra...
Democracy emerges in clear view from the shadows of history but not everybody welcomes it. The various political sides of Athens try to find...
Greece, as we recognize it, begins where the Dark Age ends. We meet some of the earliest known reformers that drop the first hints of democr...