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It's the history of our world from the Big Bang to the Modern Age! Well...eventually at least. Every episode has FINALLY been remastered, touched up, and had the numbering fixed. TPHOOW is b...
The original title was going to be Tarquin and the Roman Republic, but I'm saving that in case I ever start a synthpop group. But anyways, i...
It's not a podcasting mirage - it really is a new episode! And it's a long'un to make up for all the time we've been apart. So what do you s...
Why legends? Because the first four kings of Rome have no historical corroborating evidence! I mean, they probably existed...seems like an a...
Ave Podcastorians! This is it - our first foray into the hallowed halls of Roman history, although in typical TPHOOW tradition...there's ver...
This is it podcastorians, our last Carthage-centric episode for a bit! I thought about splitting this one in two but nahhhh if we're going t...
Yes we’re still on Carthage, but Agathocles is the one in the spotlight here! He’s just so morally bankrupt, so diabolically fixated on pers...
The war for control of Sicily drags on and neither side looks particularly good in this! Tyrants, distrustful generals, poisonous politician...
The confrontation between the Hellenic and the Punic world was inevitable, but the battleground would be Sicily, a land quite near and dear...
Carthage always seems to take a backseat in history to another big player in the Mediterranean. It could be because it's really tough to fin...
King Zheng is all fired up to take on...well, pretty much everybody else! And in this episode we'll take a look at the short but important d...
Let's start 2015 off with one of the best historical stories out of this time period! How does Qin go from a weird backwards region to conqu...
How many philosophers can we cover in one episode? 100? Ah…well no, but six is pretty good!
Who says you can’t condense 300 years of interstate fighting amongst hundreds of states into a near 20 minute episode? Well. I found a way!
The Zhou might be the longest dynasty in Chinese history, but that's not entirely accurate! Their rule is divided into two parts because of...
The second dynasty of China, although it's the first we have written evidence for! The Shang certainly have an interesting history, although...
Armed with more primary sources, it's time to embark on our tour of China's dynasties! And where better to start then with the one people ca...
We begin our tour of ancient China! Gonna throw it out there right now, I do my best with the pronunciations. I think they're decent but the...
In this, our last exciting episode in Ancient India, we'll see what happens when good empires go bad! We're condensing a lot of 'civilizatio...
India's greatest emperor isn't known for his military conquests or building projects or really anything else other emperors do! What Ashoka...
I originally planned this as a one shot episode on the Mauryans, but there's too many good stories! Also in this episode, our Macedonian tim...
First off it's pronounced mah-guh-duh, not maGAHdah - so I got it right! Keep your ears open for a word I just can't say right no many how m...
Smells like...an episode on some very important religious figures of Indian history!
An episode in which I try to mispronounce as many languages as possible, and then attempt to reconcile massive historical controversies in j...
Our first episode in India! Although really most of it takes place in Pakistan. Not that either exist at this point. And it's another episod...
Who says you can't condense the life and adventures of Western Civilization's most famous conqueror into two episodes? We wind up our travel...
Was he so great? Well his mom certainly thought so, and so did he! And really, when it comes right down to it, he did more by 20 than pretty...
You can't talk about Alexander without talking about his dad, Philip II! Without him Macedon wouldn't have all the institutions and military...
It took a lot of self control to not include war, fighting, or any form of soldiers with pointy objects trying to poke other soldiers with p...
Will the brutal militarism of Sparta triumph against the brutal democracy of Athens? And Socrates - what's up with him? Doesn't he know that...
In which a bunch of Ancient Greeks remember that they never really liked each other in the first place and off to war they go!
It's a good time to be an Athenian when Pericles is in the house! Smooching girlfriends, building temples, and teasing the Corinthians. All...
Well that took long enough. The story continues after the Persian Wars! Greece is still standing! Athens wants to get back in the game! And...
Part two of our look at the war for THE FATE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION. Whoops! My hyperbole button got stuck for a second. Lots of military s...
The granddaddy of all ancient battles! Will the forces of long beards, extreme workout regimens and kicking people down wells win out agains...
The second part! In which we finally catch up to the Persian timelines. But don't cross the streams! Wouldn't want any Mesopotamian destruct...
Did ya miss me? I'm back from a month long hiatus to bring you Athens! Part one! The city so nice it gets episodes...uh...twice. Well anyway...
THIS IS...an episode about Sparta! (and there are no 300 references in here too. Well, one, but it's about facial hair!) People just looove...
For an era of history that has almost nothing recorded from it, I think I did a respectable job with the content! (i.e. I did my best!)
I tried to keep this one as grounded in historical reality as I could, and look what happened! It's a short episode! But that's ok, we still...
Welcome to our first episode with the Greeks! Although as you'll find out, there aren't many Greeks in this episode! We'll do as much as we...
Darius gets a bum rap because he's the first Persian king to invade Greece, but they started it! Honestly! Well...mostly. Whatever. Also aft...
Oh, Herodotus. I love you man, but you're like the tabloid reporter of the ancient world. Didn't you ever check your sources? What, did you...
So many people throughout history get to have "The Great" as a moniker, but do they deserve it? Heck no! But Cyrus, here is the exception! F...
This is it! Our last episode with the ancient Hebrews! Will Egypt protect the Hebrews? Will Judah deftly wade through the treacherous diplom...
For one tiny strip of land, the power players of the ancient Near East seem REALLY hellbent on controlling it! Judah's stuck right smack dab...
We close the book on the Northern Kingdom of Israel in this episode...which leaves their southern cousins in an awkward position!
In which I condense about 2000 years of Assyrian history into about 15 minutes. Expect lots of kings trying to one-up another for the title...
It's the beginning of the end for the Ancient Hebrews folks! Once the split between the two kingdoms happened it all went downhill from ther...
Did you know that Solomon, known as Suleiman in the Quran, had a giant flying carpet, could communicate with animals, and controlled genies,...
In many ways King David is a lot like Dennis the Menace. They both use a slingshot to take down their enemies, don't get along with neighbor...