Episodes

  • Scythia
    Dec 25 2025

    Herodotus describes the strange land of Scythia, the great steppe with its nomadic horselords and fierce warriors before King Darius' invasion.

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    Folk Round by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • The Rise of Darius
    Dec 22 2025

    The Magians have usurped the Persian throne but seven nobles will conspire to win it back and crown a King among their own.

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    55 mins
  • The Conquest of Egypt
    Dec 18 2025

    Cambyses, son of Cyrus, King of Persia, turns his attention to the west, crossing the great desert and invading Egypt.

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    52 mins
  • The Kings of Egypt
    Dec 15 2025

    The priests of Egypt recount their Pharaohs from Min to Amasis, the fated king tasked with withstanding the coming Persian invasion.

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    1 hr
  • Egypt
    Dec 11 2025

    Herodotus steps foot in the ancient land of the Nile and describes the people and culture as it was in his time.

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    54 mins
  • Cyrus the Great
    Dec 8 2025

    From the fall of Croesus to the blood-soaked plains east of the Caspian: Cyrus mocks the Ionian Greeks, turns proud Lydians into harp-strumming shopkeepers, and storms the walls of Babylon.

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    Lord of the Land by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    44 mins
  • The Rise of Persia
    Dec 4 2025

    From scattered shepherds in the high Zagros to the ashes of Nineveh: the cunning rise of the Medes, the seven-ringed fortress of Ecbatana, and the birth of an empire.

    Fulfilling a prophecy and refusing to die, and a man fulfills his destiny and claims his throne.

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    Folk Round by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    36 mins
  • Croesus
    Dec 2 2025

    The richest man who the Greeks ever knew meets the oracle that destroys him.

    Herodotus begins his Histories with Croesus of Lydia: golden rivers, a doomed prophecy, and the first great clash between East and West.

    The chapter that starts it all.

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    17 mins