Ars Technica chats with historian Barry Strauss about his new book, The War that Made the Roman Empire.
Episode 3.11: Greece: History, Myth, and Music in the Land of the Gods

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Let’s discover Greece firsthand together this summer on an education vacation that will take us from Athens to Actium via magical Epirus.
Episode 3.4: Battle of Salamis

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Salamis, the great clash at sea between Greece and Persia.
Why Did Dany Destroy King’s Landing? Some Theories from History
Here is my interview with Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic.
Episode 4: Pericles

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Would you die for democracy? That’s what Pericles of Athens asked his countrymen to do in 430 BC in the most famous Funeral Speech until Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. He and Aspasia were the first power couple in the history of democracy.