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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 on Amazon Music with a Prime membership or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription.
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The Peloponnesian War, Part 1: Plague, Attrition, and a Decade of Bloodshed
This episode comes out for free on 5/16 and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.
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When the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta finally broke out in 431 BC, it was small conflicts on the fringes of the Greek world that pulled the two states into conflict. Thousands upon thousands would pay the price for that over the first decade of the war.
Patrick's book is now available! Get The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook (read by Patrick) here: https://bit.ly/PWverge. And check out Patrick's new podcast The Pursuit of Dadliness! It’s all about “Dad Culture,” and Patrick will interview some fascinating guests about everything from tall wooden ships to smoked meats to comfortable sneakers to history, sports, culture, and politics. https://bit.ly/PWtPoD
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Listen Now: Blame it on the Fame: Milli Vanilli
When Frank Farian first laid eyes on Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, he saw everything he wasn’t. They were handsome, young, and Black. But Frank had something they didn’t. He had power.
So, Frank offered them a devil’s bargain. Almost overnight, Milli Vanilli’s debut album went five times platinum and scored a Grammy nomination. But when the lie at the center of their success started to unravel, Rob and Fab would discover the hard way the difference between star power and real power.
From Wondery, Blame It on the Fame is a story about the lie that shot to #1 and what it cost to tell the truth. Hosted by Amanda Seales.
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The Athenian Empire and the Coming of the Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War, the epic 30-year conflict between Athens and Sparta for control of Classical Greece, was a long time in coming. In fact, its roots went back to the Persian Wars, when Athens seized the opportunity to create an empire in the aftermath.
Patrick's book is now available! Get The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook (read by Patrick) here: https://bit.ly/PWverge. And check out Patrick's new podcast The Pursuit of Dadliness! It’s all about “Dad Culture,” and Patrick will interview some fascinating guests about everything from tall wooden ships to smoked meats to comfortable sneakers to history, sports, culture, and politics. https://bit.ly/PWtPoD
Listen to new episodes 1 week early, to exclusive seasons 1 and 2, and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/tidesofhistory
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Listen Now: Once Upon a Beat
Get ready to hear your favorite stories remixed with beats and hooks that you can’t find in books!
In Once Upon a Beat, host DJ Fyütch and his sidekick/turntable Baby Scratch drop the needle on classic stories, spinning them up with a hip-hop twist. They’re turning the tables on your favorite fables – putting the Rap in Rapunzel, letting Goldilocks rock out, and helping the Ugly Duckling march to his own beat! Where hip hop and fables meet, It's Once Upon a Beat!
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What Made Classical Greece Special? Interview with Professor Josiah Ober
We're often told that Classical Greece lies at the root of our modern world in some way, but what made it a special place? Professor Josiah Ober, author of The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, joins me to discuss his approach to that question. We discuss the unique political ecology of the Greek city-states, demographic growth, and the role of institutions in making Greece a place quite unlike the rest of the ancient world.
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Warlords, War, and Society in Early Rome: Interview with Professor Jeremy Armstrong
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.
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A history podcast to savour
If you enjoy well-told, well-researched history, then this the place to be. Entertaining and educational seamlessly mixed, worth listening and then listening again …
Some of the best history telling out there
Within the niche of history podcasts, there are quite a few excellent storytellers. There are quite a few that explore topics in incredible depth. There are equally many that roam broadly and lightly, telling quick stories about disparate events. There are even some with an academic level of thoroughness and erudition.
“Tides of history” is unique in that it manages to cover almost all these aspects. It tells engaging stories with high production values. It draws on cutting edge scholarship, at least in those areas where I myself am well read enough to judge. It has interviews with excellent historians and entertaining discussions with lay people. (A.k.a. Leah) It covers a broad spectrum of political, social, and economic issues, which is great as the latter are often skipped in popular history. It tackles some of the biggest questions in the field. And it does all that whilst remaining accessible and easy to follow.
I have some quibbles. The presenter does an excellent job in regular episodes, but isn’t the greatest interviewer. The “narrative” sequences at the start of episodes often fall flat. The phrase “real people with real lived experiences” would lend itself to an excellent drinking game. But still.
The bottom line is this: “tides of history” offers some of the most thought-provoking and educational history audio out there, and is plenty entertaining to boot.
I cannot recommend it highly enough for people who want to learn about the periods it covers.