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A podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with Ancient Greek history.The Casting Through Ancient Greece podcast will focus on telling the story of Ancient Greece starting from the pre history through Archaic Greece, Classical Greece and up to the Hellenistic period. Featured throughout the podcast series will be Major events such as the Greek and Persian wars, The Peloponnesian war and Alexander the Greats war against Persia. www.castingthroughancientgreece.com for more resources and creditsSupport the series at www.patreon.com/castingthroughancientgreecefacebook: casting through ancient greeceTwitter: @casting_greece
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Introducing the Ancient Works Companion Series
Throughout Casting Through Ancient Greece, we have explored the ancient Greek world through the surviving accounts of historians, poets, philosophers and playwrights. Their works have helped us reconstruct events, understand the societ…
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Empires are easy to spot at the end and maddeningly hard to identify at the start. We pick up the Delian League story with one stubborn question: when Aristides helps organize the alliance in 478 BC, is he building a fair system of collective security, or laying track for the Athenian Empire withou…
Sparta’s biggest breakthrough after Sicily isn’t a new tactic or a better admiral. It’s cash, and Persia is willing to pay. The problem is that Persian money comes with Persian priorities, and those priorities don’t include a powerful Spartan navy controlling the Aegean.I trace how the Ionian War h…
A man famous for being “just” helps design the money machine that keeps a war fleet at sea, and that tension sits at the heart of this Patreon bonus for August 2026. We stay with the Delian League, but instead of treating it as an abstract institution, we follow the life and reputation of Aristides…
Sparta can’t beat Athens at sea without money, and Persia can’t claw back Ionia without Greek help. That single, uncomfortable truth kicks off the Ionian War, and it turns the late Peloponnesian War into something colder and more transactional than ever. We pick the narrative back up right as Persi…
This is a teaser of the bonus episode, "A League by Choice?" found over on Patreon.
A voluntary alliance can feel like freedom right up until the day you try to leave. After the Greek victory over Persia in 479 BC, more than a hundred islands and coastal city-states align themselves with …
A king is murdered, a throne becomes a prize, and the world’s biggest empire has to prove it can still hold together. We pull away from the Peloponnesian War just long enough to track the Persian succession shocks that set the stage for Persia’s return to Greek politics, starting with the assassina…
Athens wins at Salamis, but what happens when the man most associated with that victory becomes politically untouchable? We close out our Themistocles series by following the messy aftermath of the Persian Wars, where glory fades fast and the real fight becomes reputation, alliances, and survival i…
Athens doesn’t just lose a battle in Sicily, it loses the foundation of its power. We start with Thucydides’ brutal assessment of the Sicilian Expedition: a fleet shattered, an army trapped, commanders executed, and survivors driven into captivity. Then we follow the story where it gets even more u…
This is a teaser of the bonus episode, "Themistocles Pt 3 found over on Patreon.
Themistocles doesn’t just “win” the Battle of Salamis, he engineers the conditions that make winning possible. We pick up the story with Athens’ high-stakes decision to pour wealth and politics into sea power, exp…
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