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  1. The First Punic War

    Get your oars ready, we're going sailing this week with Bret Devereaux, as he guides us through the First Punic War. To find Bret's amazing blog, head over to A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (https://acoup.blog/). For the texts and res

  2. Virgil's Aeneid

    The Aeneid - often mocked as a cheap Latin knock-off of Homer - is revealed in this episode to be a cleverly composed homage with its own purpose which, for a time, eclipsed Homer in popularity. Aven McMaster joins Alexandra to talk about t

  3. The Thirty Tyrants

    In today's episode, Alexandra is distracted by modern politics as Roel Konijnendijk talks us through the brutal regime of oligarchs installed in Athens by Sparta, known as the Thirty Tyrants, who murdered citizens in cold blood and looted t

  4. Gods in Epic Poetry

    In this episode of Ancient History 101, we're joined by Laura Jenkinson-Brown, the award-winning educator, illustrator and author, to talk about just how central the gods were in the narratives of epic poetry. Would the Trojan War even have

  5. Augustus - An Introduction (Part 2)

    Dr Mike Beer returns to carry on his conversation with Alexandra about all things Augustus. In this second half of the discussion, we tackle Augustus' private life, his creation of his own image, his later career as First Citizen, and his e

  6. Augustus - An Introduction (Part 1)

    Before we tackle the emperors of Rome who were mad, bad, and dangerous to know, we need to first get to grips with the man who created the concept of Rome even having emperors: Augustus. The first in a two part discussion, this episode talk

  7. Xenophon - A Biography

    Forget Herodotus, forget Thucydides - Xenophon is a historian worth getting to know, and he did so much more than simply write histories... Join Owen Rees and I as we chat about a Greek man who turned his hand at just about anything, and wh

  8. "What is 'Classics' Anyway?"

    What does Classics mean to you? Cadillacs? Mozart? Dickens novels? or Ancient Greece and Rome? And why does the word CLASSIC seem to be used as a synonym for 'best', 'valuable' or 'timeless'? In this, our first interview episode, your host

  9. Welcome to Ancient History 101!

    The inaugural episode of Ancient History 101! Why not visit our website to learn more about our episodes, meet our contributors, and read about our ethos? You can also find all the links to our socials here (https://linktr.ee/ancienthistory

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    If you want to learn about the Ancient Mediterranean but don't know where to start, Ancient History 101 is the podcast for you. Expert guests guide us through a new topic every week with a back-to-basics approach that covers all the essenti

  11. Introducing Ancient History 101

    If you want to learn about the Ancient Mediterranean but don't know where to start, Ancient History 101 is the podcast for you. Expert guests guide us through a new topic every week with a back-to-basics approach that covers all the essenti

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