Remember Arminius, the leader of the Cherusci tribe of Germans? The complete bad-ass who took down Quinctilius Varus at the Varian Disaster aka the Clades Variana […]

• via Tiberius #4 – The Return of Herman — Life Of The Caesars

Resuming our narrative of the history of Carthage, we turn to one of the successor realms in the West led by a second cousin of Alexander the Great: Pyrrhus, King of Epirus.

• via Episode 28 – The Truceless War: Part II — The Layman’s Historian

This is the second in a pair of audio programmes on ROMAN MEMORY. This episode features (in order of appearance) Maggie Popkin (Case Western Reserve University) on the Roman souvenir trade, especially the glass bottles from Baia and Pozzuoli Zena Kamash (Royal Holloway, University of London) on a small cattle figurine from Marcham Frilford (scroll […]

• via Roman Memory (Part 2) — Classics Confidential

In this episode we’re going to be discussing the concept of death, dying and killing, how is described and perceived, in the ancient world. It’s thanks to Wim Sonnemans, one of our patrons for suggestion the topic. Joining Angus are stalwarts of the podcast Jasper Oorthuys, Murray Dahm, Mark McCaffery and Marc DeSantis. If you…

• via Death, Dying and Killing in the Ancient World — Ancient Warfare Podcast

In this mini myth, I tell you the story of Ixion… A bad dude who wanted what he couldn’t have and was given something very different in it’s place. Plus, the origin of centaurs! Sources: The Greek Myths by Robin Waterfield, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves. All songs used are clips from Lee Rosevere:…

• via Mini Myth: Ixion, Cloud-lover Extraordinnaire — Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! A Greek & Roman Mythology Podcast