15 episodios

This podcast looks at stories of history using money (coins, paper money, proto money) as a guide. The podcast will also review historical films that happen to cover some of the stories of the relevant season.
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Very Old Money Deven Kane

    • Historia

This podcast looks at stories of history using money (coins, paper money, proto money) as a guide. The podcast will also review historical films that happen to cover some of the stories of the relevant season.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    3.9-(15) – The King is dead

    3.9-(15) – The King is dead

    Family issues resolved, the advance guard of Philip's army marched into Asia Minor. While the campaign began successfully, Philip would never make it there in person.
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    • 30 min
    3.8-(14) – A royal soap opera

    3.8-(14) – A royal soap opera

    With the Greek states forced into a union under his leadership, Philip was all set to declare war on the Great King of Persia. Then a spectacular family scandal put these plans on hold.
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    • 28 min
    3.7-(13) – The Hegemon who never was

    3.7-(13) – The Hegemon who never was

    We take a brief detour from the story to cover the short meteoric career of a figure touted by some as the man who could have united Greece before Philip, but whose career was unexpectedly cut short.
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    • 26 min
    3.6-(12) – Chaeronea

    3.6-(12) – Chaeronea

    The Sacred War saw Philip hegemon of Greece in all but name. But the war party in Athens led by Demosthenes regretted the peace ending the Sacred War as soon as it was signed. A final showdown was inevitable and it led to the greatest victory in Philip's career.
    For the orations of Demosthenes including his Philippics click here.

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    • 35 min
    3.5-(11) The Sacred War

    3.5-(11) The Sacred War

    An attempt by Thebes to use the Amphictyonic League as a cudgel to punish Phokis kicked off an exhausting decade long war that involved all of Greece. It also provided Philip II and Macedon the ability to interfere and confirmed Macedon as the dominant power in Greece.
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    • 33 min
    3.4-(10) The rise of Macedonia

    3.4-(10) The rise of Macedonia

    After stabilizing the situation following the death of his brother Perdikkas III, Philip II engineered his rise to the throne. The next year he started a remarkable five year run that totally flipped Macedon's strategic situation - uniting his Kingdom, creating the new Macedonian military machine and emerging as the strongest power in Greece. The rest of Greece just did not know yet.
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    • 18 min

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