History of Persia

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Episode 1 Remastered! Jun 07, 2024

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Remastered - Here we go, episode 1! Now, as much as I want to get to Persian history, we should probably know at least a little bit about the world before the Persians got there, so this is you lightspeed tour of the Near East, from about 1200 BCE to 616 BCE. Maps for everything are available on the website.

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[Ex] Creation by Gore Vidal - Swords Sorcery & Socialism Crossover Part 2 May 29, 2024

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Trevor and Aurora from Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism found the perfect crossover episode with Creation by Gore Vidal: a historical fiction novel set in the 5th Century BCE that follows a fictional descendant of Zoroaster on his worldwide journey to understand the mysteries of the universe.

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[Ex] Creation by Gore Vidal - Swords Sorcery & Socialism Crossover Part 1 May 21, 2024

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What if Cyrus III? Choose Your Own Alt History Live May 12, 2024

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This is audio from the live event with Sariel and Umberto from So You Think You Can Rule Persia last year. I wrote a wildly over complicated Choose Your Own Adventure script about alternate histories if Cyrus the Younger defeated Artaxerxes II.

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125.2 Ask Me Anything Again... Again May 03, 2024

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You, the listeners of this very podcast, are phenomenal, thoughtful, inquisitive people. So I have done my very best to answer your many, many questions about the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Alexander the Great, and myself.

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History of the Celts

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Persian Music by ItShowTimeMusic

The Complete Fragments of Ctesias of Cnidus by Andrew Nichols

Ctesias' History of Persia: Tales of the Orient by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and James Robson

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125.1: Ask Me Anything Again May 01, 2024

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Persian Music by ItShowTimeMusic

The Complete Fragments of Ctesias of Cnidus by Andrew Nichols

Ctesias' History of Persia: Tales of the Orient by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and James Robson

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124: All Hail the New Gods Apr 14, 2024

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A new Hellenistic Age is dawning in the History of Persia, and with it come new Hellenistic gods and beliefs. Everyone is at least vaguely familiar with Greek mythology, but before we go any further, we should all be on the same page.

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ASW 04: Triesta, a hot start to the Cold War II Apr 03, 2024

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Trevor is joined by Roberto Toro and Brendan Foster (@foster_writing) of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) podcasts to discuss the post war occupation of Trieste and how tensions with Yugoslavia almost started World War III less than a year after World War II.

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Goldstein - Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947

Jenning - Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War

Allock - Border and Territorial Disputes

Rogers Churchill and Slany - Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe...

Winston Churchill - "Iron Curtain" Speech

Dinardo - Glimpse of an Old World Order? Reconsidering the Trieste Crisis of 1945

Morrison - Eastern Europe and the West

NYT - Attack on U.S. Airplane; Patterson says shooting down of Americans was 'Wicked' and...

NYT - Text of 2 U.s. Notes Answer Yugoslavia; His Plane Downed

The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 23 August 1946

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