Greeced Lightning

Sara Hales-Brittain, Luke Patrick, and Sam Siegel
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A podcast about myths, movies, and one doctor of classics teaching two dumb idiots about history and mythology

  1. 05/26/2025

    Age of Empires 2: Part 3: The Peloponnesian War

    It’s the end of Season 3, and the end of Sara and Sam’s journey through Age of Empires 2. Your hosts speculate about the future of civilization in 2025 while discussing the Peloponnesian War: optimistic peace agreements, ancient plague, a literal bag of dicks, video games as art, and a look back on our highlights of the season. Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War

    1h 30m

  2. 05/12/2025

    Age of Empires 2: Part 2: The Persian War

    We continue our Age of Empires 2 campaign with the Persian Wars! Join Sara and Sam for ostracism procedures, wily old Themistocles, and Sara’s waning tolerance for podcasting while pregnant. Map of the Greco-Persian WarsHerodotus' Histories - Books 6-9 cover the Persian Wars.

    52 min

  3. 04/28/2025

    Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings: Definitive Edition: Chronicles: Battle for Greece: Part 1: The Ionian Rebellion

    Back in the Greeced Lightning Game Room, your hosts tackle Part 1 of the Chronicles: Battle for Greece in Age of Empires 2. Join us to discuss Europeans stealing historical treasures, ancient tyrants, and the Ionian revolt. Herodotus' Histories - The first several books cover Persian history; coverage of the Ionian Revolt starts in Book 5.

    54 min

  4. 04/14/2025

    Troy: Fall of a City - The Trojan War

    We’re going back to our Greeced Lightning roots and revisiting the Trojan War! Join us for the 2018 series Troy: Fall of a City for the correct usage of chariots, birth plans, Bjӧrk-ified Helen, and distracting bowl cuts. Minoan 'Ladies in Blue' FrescoThe Iliad - Emily Wilson's new translation

    1h 5m

  5. 03/31/2025

    Total War: Rome 2 - The Battle of Pydna

    It’s Macedonian War time in the Greeced Lightning Game Room! Join Sara and Sam to discuss the Battle of Pydna, layoffs and unions, war elephants, and Total War: Rome II. Plutarch, Life of Aemilius - Sections 12ff. cover the Macedonian campaignLivy, Ab urbe condita 45.19 - Livy's later account of the Macedonian WarPolybius, Histories 22.8 - On the origin of the Third Macedonian War, from a contemporary historian

    1h 6m

  6. 03/17/2025

    Hadestown: Orpheus and Eurydice

    Sara and Sam dive into the wonderful world of Broadway with very hot takes on Hadestown. (Please don’t come for us, Broadway lovers.) After a brief recap of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, we’ll dig into wedding night ceremonies, too many opera adaptations, unionizing, and the trouble with the perfect song.

    59 min

  7. 03/03/2025

    Caesar 3: Roman Infrastructure and City Planning

    Sara and Sam upgrade to a Game Room to discuss the city builder game Caesar III. Travel back to the era when “online” was still two words for: surprisingly horny video games, accidental slums, ancient fire brigades, and multipurpose holes. Curia Julia - A 1st c. coin showing the curia, or senate houseMap of Pompeii

    1h 18m

  8. 02/17/2025

    HBO's Rome: Caesar and Pompey

    Sam and Sara take on Pompey and Julius Caesar’s civil war: populist politics, Cicero’s foibles, the sluttification of a model Roman matron, respect for ancient doctors, and the drama (and nudity) of HBO’s Rome. Plutarch's Life of Caesar, 53.4 - An account of Julia's death in childbirth; the following sections cover the political turmoil and growing hostility between Pompey and Caesar in the late 50s BCERoman trepanation - A technical explanation by Celsus, a Roman medical encyclopedistAncient Peruvian trepanationTitus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus - Caesar's account of the two centurions, from his Commentary on the Gallic Wars, Bk. 5.44Life of Julius Caesar - English translation of the biography by the historian Suetonius

    1h 16m
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A podcast about myths, movies, and one doctor of classics teaching two dumb idiots about history and mythology

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  • Creator
    Sara Hales-Brittain, Luke Patrick, and Sam Siegel
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    47
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2025 Sara Hales-Brittain, Luke Patrick, and Sam Siegel
  • Show Website
    Greeced Lightning