Life Of Alexander The Great

Life Of Alexander The Great episodes:

• 03.09.2018

  Renaissance Episode 1 – Constantine The Great

  Our new series, The Renaissance Times, launched on Dec 24, 2017. Here’s the first episode! Go check out the rest of the series at therenaissancetimes.com.   At its peak, the Library of Alexandria was estimated to contain somewhere in the order...

  
• 11.27.2017

  Subscribing To Renaissance

  The Dark Ages are ending! As you may have realized, we published our very last Alexander episode last week! Now some of you might be wondering what to do now? Well, I had hoped I’d be able to just transfer your Alexander...

  
• 11.23.2017

  #122 – The Last Show

  Well, here we are. Three years, 122 episodes, some of which were a LOT longer than an hour, so probably around 130-140 hours of story. We started with 14 episodes covering the rise of Philip II of Macedon, aka Big...

  
• 08.18.2017

  #111 – Ian Worthington

  Professor Ian Worthington joins us again to talk about new book about Ptolemy!   HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the show below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player. If you're not a subscriber, please...

  
• 03.16.2017

  #96 – The Lost Testament of Alexander with David Grant

  David Grant has just published a truly unique and fascinating book called “In Search of the Lost Testament of Alexander”. We recently had him on to talk us through his theory. < HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can...

  
• 09.28.2016

  #77 – JAMES ROMM

  James Romm is an author, reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, NY. After getting his B.A. in Classics from Yale, he went on to earn a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1988. He...

  
• 09.18.2015

  #28 – The Battle Of Gaugamela, Part I

  In this episode Alexander III of Macedon marches all the way from Alexandria in Egypt to Gaugamela (near Mosul in modern day Iraq) where Darius of Persia is waiting for him with the biggest army the world had ever seen....

  
• 08.07.2015

  #23 – The Battle Of Issus

  It's late 333 BCE. Alexander faces Darius on the battlefield for the first time! He's outnumbered – 3 to 1 or even 11 to 1, depending on which source you believe. What does he do? He stands firm and fights,...

  
• 06.25.2015

  #18 – Battle of the Granicus River

  In this exciting episode, we see Alexander engage the Persians for the first time! We also talk about Persian religion, Zoroastrianism, and talk a little about the achievements and history of the Persian empire. Then we get stuck into the...

  
• 05.08.2015

  #14 – The Death Of A King

  After six long months and 14 episodes we finally end Chapter One of our series with Philip II's assassination. It's one of the craziest stories you'll ever hear. We know who did it but we'll never really know why or...

  
• 02.23.2015

  #09 – Peter Adamson on Aristotle

  If you’re not already one of the many fans of Peter Adamson’s “History Of Philosophy Without Any Gaps” podcast, you will be by the end of this episode. Peter does to philosophy what we do to history – he provides...

  
• 12.28.2014

  #04 – King Philip Goes To War

  King Philip bought some time with his peace treaties and marriages and used that time to re-engineer the Macedonian army and cavalry. In this (shortish due to Xmas) episode, Philip turns on his enemies who threaten Macedon and shows them...

  
• 12.04.2014

  #01 – The Saga Begins.

  The saga begins! We kick off the new series talking about why Alexander The Great is worth discussing – cavalry commander at 16, king at 20, conqueror of Persia at 26, conquered two-thirds of the known world by the time of...

  
• 11.29.2014

  #00 – Introducing The New Series

  Hey folks! We’re very excited to announce our brand new kick-ass history series – THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. It’s going to be our wildest and best series yet! This is the guy that both Napoleon and Caesar admired and...