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Ancient Greece: Philosophy, Democracy, and Endless War — Fexingo History — 104 episodes
The Antikythera Mechanism: Ancient Greek Computer
The Athenian Ephebeia: Coming of Age in Ancient Athens
The Athenian Agora: Democracy in Action
Alcibiades: The Most Controversial Athenian of the Peloponnesian War
The Delian League: From Alliance to Athenian Empire
The Pythia: Delphi's Oracle and Prophecy in Ancient Greece
The Thesmophoria: Women's Festival That Shaped Greek Religion
The Thirty Tyrants: Athens Under Spartan Rule
The Battle of Chaeronea: When Philip of Macedon Conquered Greece
The Sacred Band of Thebes: Lovers in War
The Battle of Leuctra: How Epaminondas Broke Spartan Power
The Corinthian War: Sparta's Empire Crumbles
The Ostracism of Themistocles: A Hero Exiled by His Own Democracy
Themistocles' Ostrakismos: Exile and Comeback
The Battle of Salamis: Themistocles and the Wooden Walls
The Sacred Truce of Olympia: How Sports Stopped Wars
The Battle of Marathon: Athens Stands Alone
The Battle of Tanagra: Sparta in Athenian Territory
The Parthenon Marbles: Elgin's Controversy and Cultural Legacy
The Athenian Trierarch: Funding the Fleet That Saved Democracy
The Plague of Athens: Democracy Under Siege by Disease
The Acharnians: War and Peace Through Comic Eyes
Hippocrates and the Birth of Greek Medicine
Aspasia of Miletus: The Woman Behind Pericles
The Death of Pericles: When Athens Lost Its Anchor
The Pnyx: Where Athenian Democracy Was Born
Pericles' Citizenship Law: Who Got to Be Athenian
The Spartan Scytale: Encryption in Ancient Greece
Socrates on Trial: Democracy Condemns Its Critic
The Peace of Nicias: A Fragile Truce in the Peloponnesian War
The Delian League Becomes an Empire: How Athens Took Control
Aeschylus the Playwright: From Marathon to the Oresteia
The Mytilenean Debate: Democracy Debates Genocide
The Tyrannicides: How Two Men Sparked Athenian Democracy
The Athenian Decadrachm: Propaganda in Silver
Themistocles' Ostrakon: Exile and the Birth of Athenian Strategy
The Melian Dialogue: When Athenian Democracy Turned Brutal
The Sacred Ships of Athens: State Triremes and Naval Cult
Cleon the Tanner: Democracy's Demagogue or Voice of the People?
The Athenian Ephebeia: Military Training and Coming of Age in Ancient Athens
The Battle of Marathon: How 10,000 Athenians Defeated Persia
The Great Panathenaia: Festival, Procession, and Athenian Identity
The Athenian Trierarch: How Rich Citizens Funded the Navy
The Pnyx: Where Athenian Democracy Met the People
The Delphic Oracle How Priestesses Shaped Greek Politics
Pericles' Citizenship Law: The Athenian Identity Test
The Thirty Tyrants: Athens's Brutal Oligarchic Coup
The Sacred Band of Thebes: Lovers in Arms at Leuctra
The Plague of Athens War Disease and the Collapse of Civic Order
Alcibiades: The Most Brilliant and Dangerous Man in Athens
The Spartan King Who Fought for Democracy Agesilaus II
The Athenian Decree: How One Vote Decided a Massacre
The Spartan Crypteia: State-Sanctioned Terror
The Athenian Grain Supply: How Imported Wheat Shaped Democracy
The Battle of Leuctra: How Thebes Broke Sparta's Power
The Real Cleopatra Not Egyptian But Greek Ptolemaic Queen
The Battle of Marathon and the Origins of Athenian Identity
Piraeus and the Long Walls: Athens' Port Fortress
Darius I and the Ionian Revolt
The Spartan Secret: How Helots Built a Warrior State
Ep 67: The Melian Dialogue — Might Makes Right in Ancient Greece
The Ostracism of Themistocles: How Athens Expelled Its Greatest Hero
How Athens Built the Parthenon: Money, Politics, and Marble
The Delian League: How an Alliance Became an Empire
The Real Socrates on Trial: Philosophy, Politics, and Hemlock
Themistocles and the Wooden Walls of Athens
Aspasia of Miletus: The Woman Who Shaped Pericles
Pericles and the Funeral Oration: Democracy's Defining Speech
The Lawgiver Solon: How One Man Averted Revolution in Athens
The Thirty Tyrants: Athens's Brutal Year of Terror
Cleisthenes: The Father of Athenian Democracy
The Sacred Band of Thebes: Lovers in the Phalanx
The End of Athens: How Democracy Fell to a Tyrant
The Enduring Legacy of the Panathenaic Festival and Its Prize Amphorae
Alcibiades: The Athenian Who Switched Sides
The Peace of Nicias: Athens and Sparta's Failed Truce in 421 BCE
The Cynic Who Roamed Athens with a Lantern
Hoplite Revolution: How the Phalanx Remade Greek Warfare
The Trial of the Generals Arginusae Athens Darkest Verdict
The Siege of Plataea: When Athens Betrayed an Ally
The Gortyn Code: Greece's Oldest Law in Stone
The Pnyx: Where Athenian Democracy Actually Happened
Thucydides: The General Who Wrote the History of War
Ostracism: The Democratic Vote to Exile a Citizen
The Delphic Oracle: How the Pythia Shaped Ancient Greece
Thebes Rising: How Epaminondas Shattered Sparta's Myth
The Spartan Mirage: How Sparta Built a Warrior Society
The Priest Who Absolved Athens: The Kylon Curse
In the Shadow of the Acropolis: The Cults of Asklepios and Panacea
Aspasia of Miletus: The Woman Who Shaped Athens
The Parthenon Marbles: Art, Theft, and a 200-Year Feud
Aristotle's Lyceum: The Walking School That Classified Everything
Socrates: The Gadfly Who Drank Hemlock
Pericles and the Athenian Golden Age
The Sacred Band of Thebes: Greece's Gay Military Unit
The Battle of Leuctra That Broke Spartan Power
Pheidias and the Golden Age of Greek Sculpture
Alcibiades the Chameleon: Athens' Most Dangerous Star
The Thirty Tyrants: Athens Under the Boot
The Thesmophoria: Greek Women's Secret Festival
Pericles' Funeral Oration: Democracy's Defining Speech
The Athenian Empire: How Delian League Became an Imperial Navy
The Athenian Agora: Democracy's Daily Stage
The Battle of Marathon: How Athens Defeated Persia