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Vol 3 Ep 14 - Ancient Greece: Peloponnesian War, Part Two Mar 15, 2020

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447 - 404 BCE - The conflict reaches a defining climax as natural events and individual decisions involve much of the Greek speaking world. Will it be Athens or Sparta who prevails?

Vol 3 Ep 13 - Ancient Greece: Peloponnesian War, Part One Mar 08, 2020

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479 - 447 BCE - The Persians had been expelled from the Balkan peninsula. Fate deals its hand to the Greek lands as the region heads towards further conflict.

Vol 3 Ep 12 - Second Persian Invasion of Greece, Part Two Mar 01, 2020

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480 - 479 BCE - The Achaemenid Persians were now able to march on Athens. Would the Athenians stay and fight, or abandon their city? Would the Spartans assist the Athenians, or would either polis put itself in front of their alliance now that the pressure was so high?

Vol 3 Ep 11 - Second Persian Invasion of Greece, Part One Feb 23, 2020

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480 BCE - Following defeat at Marathon, the Persians were back. Had the Greeks done enough to prepare for the return and would the interminably militant force of Sparta make the difference?

Vol 3 Ep 10 - BATTLE - The Battle of Marathon ( 490 BCE ) Feb 16, 2020

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490 BCE - The Achaemenid Persians had been succesfully expanding their influence across the known world, but when the Athenians supported a revolt of Greek people within the Persian Empire, the Achaemenids sought revenge.

Vol 3 Ep 9 - Ancient Greece: Greek Colonisation Feb 09, 2020

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750 - 550 BCE - For a couple of centuries, the people of the Greek poleis all jumped into their boats and scattered in all directions. Where were they going? What were they doing? Why were they doing it?

Vol 3 Ep 8 - Ancient Greece: Ancient Athens, Part Two Feb 02, 2020

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565 - 493 BCE - The Peisistratid tyranny came under pressure as Athens demanded democracy so vehemently that even the mighty Spartans could not impose their authority over the Athenians.

Vol 3 Ep 7 - Ancient Greece: Ancient Athens, Part One Jan 26, 2020

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800 - 565 BCE - We walk through the journey of the Greek capital during the Archaic period and discover what this independent city did to avoid tyranny before succumbing to it.

Vol 3 Ep 6 - Ancient Greece: Dark Age and Archaic Greece Jan 19, 2020

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1200 - 600 BCE - Exactly what did happen in Greece after the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the disappearance of the Mycenaean culture, and what are poleis?

Vol 3 Ep 5 - Ancient Persia: Iranian Religion in Antiquity ( Zoroastrianism ) Jan 12, 2020

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609 BCE - 651 CE - What is Zoroastrianism and how did it originate? Which belief systems did it influence and which belief systems existed alongside it in Iranian lands? How did the Persian elite view and use Zoroastrianism in their respective empires?

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