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A podcast for all ancient history fans! The Ancients is dedicated to discussing our distant past. Featuring interviews with historians and archaeologists, each episode covers a specific theme from antiquity. From Neolithic Britain to the Fall of Rome. Hosted by Tristan Hughes.
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Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

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Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it at work, what language we speak and how we raise our children. From Wondery, host Patrick Wyman, PhD (“Fall Of Rome”) helps us understand our world and how it got to be the way it is. New episodes come out Thursdays for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. Listen ad-free on Wondery+ or ...
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A weekly podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Now complete!
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Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

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Learn something new every day! Everything Everywhere Daily is a daily podcast for Intellectually Curious People. Host Gary Arndt tells the stories of interesting people, places, and things from around the world and throughout history. Gary is an accomplished world traveler, travel photographer, and polymath. Topics covered include history, science, mathematics, anthropology, archeology, geography, and culture. Past history episodes have dealt with ancient Rome, Phoenicia, Persia, Greece, Chi ...
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This podcast will explore the development of the art, architecture, culture and history in Italy, from ancient Roman times through the Renaissance. Listeners will develop an understanding of Italy’s role in the development of Western civilization and an ability to appreciate and understand works of art in their historical context.
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The Bittersweet Life

Expat, Repat, Travel, Rome, Seattle, Books, Art, Italy, Wonder

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Life doesn't have a script. At least, it doesn't have to. Hosts Katy Sewall and Tiffany Parks explore the challenges and joys of moving abroad and moving home. Whether you’re living overseas, or not — or not yet — join us weekly for unadulterated conversation. Get to know Rome. Laugh at our embarrassments and insights. Most of all, imagine the possibilities for your own life (and meet some famous authors along the way).
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Exploring the history and mythology of the ancient world. Archaeologists and scholars join to discuss ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, and other civilizations of the distant past.
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Get Ready for Rome helps the thoughtful traveler prepare to visit the Eternal City by introducing the city’s main monuments and the sometimes acrimonious dialogue they imply. Add value to your visit to Rome by getting to know in advance the ideas and history that stand behind St. Peter’s Basilica, the Colosseum, the Sistine Chapel and other familiar but put poorly understood sites of one of the world’s greatest cities.
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Discussions from Ancient Warfare Magazine. Why did early civilisations fight? Who were their Generals? What was life like for the earliest soldiers? Ancient Warfare Magazine will try and answer these questions. Warfare minus two thousand years.
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Peak performers and elite achievers: What's their process? How can we apply it? How do we destroy the game like them? Jim Rome is finding out. He's connecting with those who are making it happen. The best, brightest, boldest, grittiest and most audacious thinkers, grinders, and winners Jim can find. If you're looking to bust out, reinvent and attack the game with a completely new mindset and be more competitive and effective than you've ever been, then lock this podcast in.
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Featuring interviews with both actors and academics, Shakespeare’s Shadows delves into a single Shakespeare character in each episode. Perspectives from the worlds of academia, theater, and film together shape explorations of the Bard’s shadows, his imitations of life — pretty good imitations, ones that reveal enough of ourselves that we’re still talking about them four centuries later.
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I'm all about ancient history and this podcast covers ancient Greece, Rome and other cultures from antiquity. From mainstay topics through to the more niche and aimed at all levels of knowledge I think you'll find something good to listen to. Why not have a browse? It would be great to have you join me. More content, including episode notes, on my ancient history website www.ancientblogger.com
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The most influential biographies ever written, admired by leaders, creators, soldiers, and thinkers for nearly 2,000 years: Plutarch’s Parallel lives. Essential listening for anyone striving after greatness. Alex Petkas, former professor of ancient philosophy and history, revives and dramatically retells these unforgettable stories for modern audiences. The subjects are statesmen, generals, orators, and founders; pious and profane, stoics and hedonists. The stakes bear on the future of Weste ...
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We are Grace City Church in Rome, Georgia. We preach the Word of God unapologetically and seek to apply the truths of the gospel to our everyday lives. We build authentic relationships by doing real life together in community. And we call the men to step up and lead their families with intentionality, so that they, their wives, and their children can stand firm and thrive in the midst of cultural chaos and confusion. You’ll find all of our weekly sermons on this channel. Please rate, share, ...
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A podcast by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. In each episode, the APGRD invites academics and/or creative practitioners (directors, playwrights, actors, choreographers etc.) to talk to us about their research, archival discoveries, and creative practices. We often begin with an object from our archive to start a wider conversation. The podcast runs during the university's vacations.
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Beyond Rome

The Philos Project

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Beyond Rome is a podcast that seeks to reconnect Catholics with their Hebraic and Christian roots in the Near East. Hosted by Simone Rizkallah, joined by James O’Reilly and the Philos Catholic team at the Philos Project, they explore a variety of topics related to religion and culture in the West and why the Near East matters for a healthy Church and world. Beyond Rome looks beyond the West to understand what makes the Catholic Church truly universal.
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Empire

Goalhanger Podcasts

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How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today? William Dalrymple and Anita Anand explore the stories, personalities and events of empire over the course of history.
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“Tune in” to Something Good. Feel good now and feel even more good later. A podcast where we cultivate joy in our lives through creating it. We are the Source of our reality. The thoughts and feelings we encourage and grow with are reflected back to us in our lives. What we focus on is what grows, let’s give love our attention.
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This show will detail the biographies and interesting facts of the Papacy of Rome. It will start in the beginning, but will not go straight through. There will be many side tracks and detours along the way. We will investigate the backstreets of the Papacy where the tour normally doesn't go. Support this show
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The Fall of Rome Podcast

Patrick Wyman / Wondery

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Barbarians, political breakdown, economic collapse, mass migration, pillaging and plunder. The fall of the Roman Empire has been studied for years, but genetics, climate science, forensic science, network models, and globalization studies have reshaped our understanding of one of the most important events in human history. PhD historian and specialist Patrick Wyman brings the cutting edge of history to listeners in plain, relatable English.
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A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever have been taken for granted. This podcast traces the development of western civilization starting in the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome, past the collapse of the Western Roman Empire into the Dark Ages, and then follows European and, ultimately, American history as the western world moved ...
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Proof: A True Crime Podcast is a serialized investigation into cases of potential wrongful conviction. Hosted by Susan Simpson of the Undisclosed Podcast and Jacinda Davis of TV’s Evil Lives Here, Proof unravels the tangled and competing demands of the legal system, police practices, truth, guilt and innocence. Season 2: The second season of Proof: Murder at the Warehouse takes Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis to Manteca, CA where they reinvestigate the murder of 18-year-old Renee Ramos. On J ...
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History of Persia

Trevor Culley and HoPful Media

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**Ad maintenance in progress on episodes 1-39. 40+ are repaired.**A podcast dedicated to the history of Persia, and the great empires that ruled there beginning with the Achaemenid Empire of Cyrus the Great and the foundation of an imperial legacy that directly impacted ancient civilizations from Rome to China, and everywhere in between. Join me as we explore the cultures, militaries, religions, successes, and failures of some of the greatest empires of the ancient world.
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This podcast is about ancient Roman and Chinese artillery Cover art photo provided by Willian West on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@willianwest
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Geek Warning

Escape Collective

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Welcome to Geek Warning, a podcast focused on how bikes work and how to make them better. Hosted by Dave Rome and Caley Fretz, along with whoever else we can find, this weekly show is your fix for tech geekitude, covering the latest tech news, industry trends, and whatever else catches our fancy.
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Catiline and Cicero draw their lines of battle in the senate, with Catiline claiming to represent the will of the wretched and destitute. But his attacks on Cicero, directly or indirectly, earn him many enemies, and he is forced to flee the city of Rome. Part IV of The Catiline Conspiracy Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Anci…
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We are thrilled to sit down with Neil, The Ancient Blogger and host of the Ancient History Hound podcast to explore space and place in the Roman regal period. Neil, or ancientblogger as he’s more commonly known, studied ancient history at degree level and then completed an MA in Classical Civilisation. Though he has a full time job he spends most o…
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Rome and war are inseparable topics, but how far back does their connection go? What was war like in the earliest days of the city's rise to prominence? Professor Jeremy Armstrong is an expert on early Rome and warfare in pre-Roman Italy, and he joins me to talk about warlords, generals, and the nature of warfare at Rome's beginning. See Privacy Po…
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Andrew Whitworth on why he loves football more than ever in retirement, what it's like to get chewed out by Nick Saban, what impresses him most about Sean McVay, what MMA training taught him about himself and much more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your …
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A podcast with Marco Martinelli Playwright and theatre director Marco Martinelli (co-founder of Teatro delle Albe) discusses his community-theatre projects, past and future, in Italy, France, and London, involving amateur actors, school children, and young adults, using Aristophanes, Dante, and Cervantes.…
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Join Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly for our pilot episode of Beyond Rome, a podcast production of the Catholic team at The Philos Project. In this episode, you’ll learn who and what The Philos Project is, the stories of how Simone and James came to work in the Near East space, and why we do the work we do.…
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After two episodes on the Forum Boarium, we move up to the Palatine Hill. At the same time, we move from Rome’s distant prehistory and Aeneas to its founding by his descendant Romulus, the son of Mars. Later still, Caesar and his adopted son Augustus presented Aeneas and Romulus as precursors of the Caesars.…
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Pastor John Lovell teaches us in week #2 of the "Married For Life" series how to unleash the radical blessings of biblical marriage. The scriptures clearly disclose the biblical roles of a man and a woman, while culture levies war against the wisdom of God's Word about marriage. When men seek to love, and women seek to respect, the marriage union f…
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Join us today as Alex Barnes continues the theme for April: Count on His Resurrection and Evidence.Be blessed as you watch! Please Like and Subscribe to Our Online Platforms!------------------------------------------------------------------------STAY CONNECTED!!Please Like and Subscribe to our platforms! Don't forget to follow us on: Facebook: www.…
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Would you move across the world to a country without ever having been there? That's what this week's guest did. We sit down with Brie Ripley to talk about her decision to take a 4-year contract with the World Food Program, which meant a relocation to Rome—a city she had never even visited. She talks about the challenges of adjusting to life abroad …
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In this episode of Geek Warning, James is just back from the Sea Otter Classic and Dave is still thinking about chain lube and tools. On the Sea Otter front, James and Dave discuss new eco-friendlier tyres from Vittoria, new metal bikes from Ritchey and Digit, parts from 5Dev and Xpedo, along with new tools from PrestaCycle and Stan’s NoTubes. Chec…
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In this episode, we break down the changes that Robert Dudley might become the next King of England. Spoiler alert, he doesn't. While Elizabeth I might have truly loved her favorite, the reality was she could not marry him. Marrying Robert would have isolated England even further as we will see. Then, when Robert's wife dies under mysterious circum…
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In 1854 an unusually severe outbreak of cholera occurred in London. While cholera was not an uncommon disease, physicians at the time weren’t sure what caused it. This time, one doctor took a completely different approach, stopping the epidemic and ushering in a new field of medicine. Learn more about John Snow and the Broad Street cholera outbreak…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Finnish epic poem that first appeared in print in 1835 in what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland, part of the Russian Empire and until recently part of Sweden. The compiler of this epic was a doctor, Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884), who had travelled the land to hear traditional poems about mythical heroes being sung…
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With season two winding down, vital information continues to come in. Faced with a tidal wave of innuendo and rumors, Susan and Jacinda fight the temptation to jump to conclusions. Visit our website for episode transcripts, behind the scenes photos and more. Follow us on social media: on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook we are @proofcrimepod. Liste…
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In 259 BC, a boy named Ying Zheng was born in the state of Qin in modern-day China. He was born into the royal family of the kingdom and ascended to the throne at the age of 13. For most people, becoming king would be the pinnacle of their achievements. However, this was not to be the case with the King of Chin. He would go on to achieve a status t…
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The Library of Alexandria was one of the most important and most celebrated buildings of the ancient Mediterranean. It was a great hub of learning and literature and made Alexandria one of the ancient world’s foremost centres of knowledge and culture, and the jewel of the Nile Delta. But when was it built? And where did all the books come from? In …
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For centuries Spain had been an outlier in Europe due to its religious diversity; Christians, Jews, and Muslims all existed reasonably peacefully across the Iberian peninsula. Under Isabelle of Castile that all changed. She began the Spanish Inquisition and brought to the fore a religious fundamentalism that would eventually force out of the countr…
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Sensorial House Section with Nico Heinz & Fabio De Magistris https://www.instagram.com/nicoheinzdj/ https://www.facebook.com/nicoheinzdj https://twitter.com/NicoHeinzDj https://www.tiktok.com/@nicoheinzdj Tracklist: 01 Nico Heinz, Fabio De Magistris feat Mia - I Want Your Love – Ego 02 James Haskell - Lose Your Mind (feat. David LeSal) - Toolroom T…
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Located in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, Italy, Caravaggio painted the “Flagellation” in 1607 while he was hiding out in Naples because he was wanted for murder in Rome. The “Flagellation” is dramatically sadistic scene of imminent torture set – like so many of Caravaggio’s paintings - in a dark shallow theatrical space.…
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An affirmation spiel for manifesting your dream person. Stream “Love I Stay With”: https://open.spotify.com/album/0Bf8bOnDZUY1Sv1xMRqfK7?si=qvOwksdsTxiXpeE6Ux7iYg For 1:1 private energy sessions and/or creative coaching, visit https://www.thejoychannel.org/store ~~~ Get your “Write Your Book” guide as your free 🎁 gift and check out https://www.affi…
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In the 19th century, New York City was one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. However, it was still a very young city, and as such, the city’s leaders were able to take a step back and plan what exactly they wanted to future of the city to be. What they decided was that the city needed a park. Not just any park, but a great park that took …
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