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Presenting a chronological history of the ancient Spartan peoples. Beginning with their earliest mentions in the epics of Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, right through to the collapse of Spart...
The battle of Salamis was the defining naval conflict of the ancient Greek world. Occurring in the wake of the Greek defeat at Thermopylae,...
Thermopylae. The title is synonymous with a bygone age of glory, bravery and defiance. It is an event entirely pivotal to the Spartan story...
In the third installment of my Greco-Persian war series we take a look at the Interbellum. The years between Marathon and Thermopylae. A piv...
Second up for my Greco-Persian war series is the Battle of Marathon, fought in 490 BCE. The first time in living and recorded memory that a...
EPISODE 35 A TALE OF TWO TYRANTS The Greco-Persian wars were a series of truly tectonic engagements fought during the first half of the 5th...
EPISODE 34 THE HISTORY OF PERSIA WITH TREVOR CULLEY The Persian empire constituted the greatest threat to Greek independence the individual...
EPISODE 33 CLEOMENEAN SPARTA Cleomenes the first sat upon the Agiad throne of Sparta from around 520 to 490 BCE. Although his downfall just...
EPISODE 32 EMBASSIES AND ENEMIES By the middle of the 6th century, Sparta was, through her alliances, the most powerful military force Hella...
EPISODE 31 A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN Likely by around 550 BCE, Sparta had the most powerful military in ancient Greece. They used that to their...
EPISODE 30 A SUMMARY OF LYCURGAN SPARTA WITH PROFESSOR PAUL CARTLEDGE Over the past half a century no one has done more to forward the field...
EPISODE 29 CASTES OF SPARTA This time around I take a look at the various castes and sub-castes within Spartan society. What we see in popul...
EPISODE 28 THE BRONZE LIE WITH MYKE COLE I had the honour, pride and privilege of sitting down with author Myke Cole for this instalment of...
EPISODE 27 HEAVY METAL SPARTANS WITH DR JEREMY SWIST We're shifting gears a little with this episode as I'm joined by Dr Jeremy Sw...
EPISODE 26: THE SPARTAN REGIME WITH PROFESSOR PAUL RAHE Author, classicist and historian Professor Paul Rahe was kind enough to sit down wit...
EPISODE 25: SPARTIATES Welcome back folks to the Spartan History Podcast. Stepping back into the solo format to once again put another facet...
EPISODE 24: PART 2 OF A COLABRORATION WITH CASTING THROUGH ANCIENT GREECE PODCAST. For something a little different this month's releas...
EPISODE 23 : HOPLITES AND THE SPARTAN WAR MACHINE This time around folks it is my great honour to have Professor Paul Bardunias as my guest...
Hello again dear listeners, this month we're back with episode 22, Raising Spartans. The treatment of Spartan children by their society...
EPISODE 21 GOVERNING SPARTANS Welcome back folks and to the first of what will be a series of episodes designed to explain the different fac...
EPISODE 20 THE SPARTAN YOKE Happy new year folks, welcome back to the Spartan History Podcast, the only podcast called the Spartan History P...
EPISODE 19 THE EXPANSION OF SPARTA The time has come to let Sparta out of the box, so to speak. Trapped as I've kept it since this seri...
EPISODE 18 JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE, PART 4. Welcome back to the Spartan History Podcast, the agenda for this episode will be the conclus...
EPISODE 17, APOLLO'S FAITHFUL. Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast, we're back on the Spartan narrative this time and taking a...
EPISODE 16, JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE PART 3. Welcome back to the Spartan History Podcast, this time around we'll be working through...
EPISODE 15, LYCURGUS, THE WOLF WORKER. Welcome back to the Spartan History Podcast, this time we return to the Spartan narrative and sink ou...
EPISODE 14, JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE PART 2. Welcome back to the Spartan History Podcast. This time around it's back to the story of...
Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast. This is the first episode not based in the bronze/mythic age and takes a look at the Dark age era o...
EPISODE 12, JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE PART 1. Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast, it's an honour to be able to present, as pro...
Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast, this will be part 2 of my series on the Bronze age collapse, and the final episode set in the Heroi...
Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast, in this months episode we'll start a two part investigation into the Bronze age collapse of ea...
Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast, in this months episode we'll be taking a look at a few of my favourite myths. First, the sto...
This time we take a look at the lives of Castor and Polydeuces, the Dioscuri. They participated in some of the legendary events in greek myt...
The conclusion to my biographical look into the bronze age's most famous daughter, Helen of Sparta. This time we take her story from th...
Continuing the story of Helen, this months episode delves into the tale behind her abduction by Paris from Sparta. We carry the story forwar...
Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. Her image has resonated down the generations and she has become the archetypal model of femini...
In this special interest episode I'm exploring some of the ways Homer and his peers remembered and transmitted epic oral works. At near...
Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast, in this episode we set out to describe the predominant bronze age, Greek civilisation. According to...
In this, the first official episode, we delve into our chief literary source for the bronze age, Homer. Briefly having a look at the two wor...
Introducing your host and setting out the terms of reference for what will be a chronological look at the history of the Spartan peoples, se...