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Ancient History 101 Podcast

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A podcast all about the Ancient Mediterranean world hosted by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social Info: www.ancienthistory101.org Donate: ko-fi.com/ancienthistory101 Merch: www.redbubble.com/people/AncHist101…

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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 3h
It's time for Part 2 of our Series 1 Finale Special Event: Boudica - Unfettered Fury. In Part 1, we set the scene in an Iron Age Britain gradually falling under Roman dominion. In Part 2, we see Boudica wreak havoc on specific targets: Colchester, London and St Albans.
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 24/09/2026
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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✨New to Patreon - Mark Antony with Alex Gough✨ We sit down with @alexgoughauthor.bsky.social to learn more about his historical fiction series on Mark Antony which explores Antony’s career and follows him all the way through to his demise.
Book cover for ‘Caesar’s Nemesis’ by Alex Gough which shows a Roman soldier looking over a naval battle with a flaming shield in the background.
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🏰 Ben Paites 🏛️ @benpaites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It was such a joy being part of this, despite us discussing an incredibly dark period of history. Everyone had great personal insights into the story of Boudica and similar experiences telling her story.
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 23/09/2026
Featuring Ben Paites, Senior Curator at @colmuseums.bsky.social, Kate Sumnall, Curator of Archaeology at @londonmuseum.bsky.social and Lexi Diggins, archaeologist and guest curator at @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social... Ancient History 101 presents: BOUDICA Part 1: Prelude to Destruction
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 22/09/2026
Stay tuned: tomorrow is (part 1 of) the Grand Finale of Series/Season 1! We've cooked up a real treat, with something not attempted in podcasting until now: A roundtable on Boudica with a museum curator or archaeologist from each of the 3 cities Boudica destroyed - Colchester, London and St Albans!
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Terry Hassett @terryhassett66.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is really interesting and made me think again about Crassus, and the motivation of the sources.
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 16/09/2026
This week we have one of our significant ancient events episodes! @belovedofoizys.bsky.social chats about the conflicting and astounding accounts of what happened to the body of Marcus Licinius Crassus after he was killed...
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 15/09/2026
Thucydides wants us to think that Athens was completely ignorant of Sicily and had no idea what they were walking into, but is he fudging the truth? @roelkonijn.bsky.social explains all in our Sicilian Expedition episode, out now
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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am one of those! 'Super sexy Alcibiades' is the best way to describe him anf understand why people kept letting him get away with so much cr@p.
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Dr. Zoé Elise Thomas @archaeadne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Listen its important for the plot that he’s hot okay I promise
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 11/09/2026
When the Athenians were deliberating over whether to send an expedition to Sicily, they made a pros and cons list. And according to Thucydides, one prominent Athenian was all pros, and another was 100% cons... Our full Sicilian Expedition episode with @roelkonijn.bsky.social is out now!
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 09/09/2026
After his wonderful episode discussing the Thirty Tyrants, @roelkonijn.bsky.social has returned to give us a crash course in the Sicilian Expedition this week! Crack open your copy of Thucydides, we're going sailing...
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 07/09/2026
The punishment for an unchaste Vestal Virgin was to be buried alive - but were all condemned Vestals truly guilty, or were some merely convenient scapegoats? Our full episode on the Vestals with Peta Greenfield of @partialhistorians.bsky.social is out now...
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 05/09/2026
Was dedicating their life to the goddess Vesta a calling for young Roman women, or were Vestal Virgins selected from a pool of girls who couldn't fully understand what they were committing their lives to? Our full episode of the Vestal Virgins with Peta Greenfield explains all...
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 02/09/2026
We've got an episode on religion for you this week, and it focuses on one of the most extraodinary priesthoods in the ancient world. Welcome to the world of the Vestals! Our special guest expert is Peta Greenfield of @partialhistorians.bsky.social renown.
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 01/09/2026
Agamemnon lived a whole 45 minutes after arriving home from Troy, but did he see it coming? Listen to our full episode on Aeschylus' Agamemnon with guest expert Shelby Judge (@shelbyjudge.bsky.social) out now!
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Alexis Christensen @amchristensen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just listened to @alexvandewalle.bsky.social's episode about Greek myth and video games on @ancienthistory101.org this morning. Great stuff and made me excited to teach my games course again next fall. Also sharing it with my myth students today.
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 29/08/2026
Did you expect Clytemnestra to be repentant after she murdered her husband? No chance! Listen to our full episode on Aeschylus' Agamemnon with Shelby Judge (@shelbyjudge.bsky.social) out now!
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 26/08/2026
New episode alert!! Odysseus wasn't the only Greek who got a less than perfect homecoming after sailing back from Troy! @shelbyjudge.bsky.social talks us through Agamemnon's less than warm welcome home in Aeschylus' play...
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 24/08/2026
The Battle of Alesia was a massive defeat for the Gauls, but was Vercingetorix to blame? Was he simply a loser? Listen to our full episode with Zoé Elise Thomas (@archaeadne.bsky.social) for more... www.ancienthistory101.org/p/vercingeto...
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 21/08/2026
Vercingetorix is besieged at Alesia and food supplies are running low. What are his options? To find out what choice Vercingetorix *did* make, listen to our full Vercingetorix episode with Zoé Elise Thomas, out now!
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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
For someone who grew up loving the Asterix comics (but otherwise knew nothing about this story beyond HBO’s Rome), this was so enlightening, with copious evidence of the Romans being terrible & Julius Caesar as a total piece of shit. And some worrying modern far-right hero worship at the end, yay!
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Touhoburg @touhoburg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oo, nice! Just perfect after listening @garius.bsky.social s Untitled History Podcast about Asterix.
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 19/08/2026
It's time for a little more military history this week, so we have a biography of Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix! Our guest expert is archaeologist @archaeadne.bsky.social , who will take us past the mythmaking of later history, and walk us through the short but dramatic career of an enemy of Rome.
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Vercingetorix - a Biography - Ancient History 101
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 17/08/2026
Historians write about Great Men, but for the average inhabitant of the Roman empire, what was the true Crisis of the Third Century? Civil War? Invasions? Plague? Taxation? Jeroen Wijnendaele looks at the third century from a less elite perspective in our full episode What is 'Late Antiquity?'
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 16/08/2026
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 14/08/2026
What caused the fall of the Roman empire? Plenty of pundits are happy to peddle a myriad of theories, all complete with an agenda. But what's the true answer? We asked @drdragases.bsky.social - but to hear his full answer, you'll have to listen to our full episode What Is 'Late Antiquity?'
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Featuring the crises of the 3rd century, Constantine & Christianity, Jeremy Clarkson & Byzantium (true story), social mobility, popular culture (elementary name dropping @lucygrig.bsky.social), the significance of Roman law for women in the post-Imperial world, and even rehabilitating E.A. Thompson.
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What is 'Late Antiquity?' - Ancient History 101
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Shout out to @belovedofoizys.bsky.social for the invite! I was given the formidable task explaining to a wider audience "What Late Antiquity is". Fortunately, I got plenty of space to dig into all kinds of topics. I'll leave it up to the audience to decide whether I bit off more than I could chew.
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 12/08/2026
New episode alert! @drdragases.bsky.social joins 101 to give us a crash course in Late Antiquity, a fascinating period that gives Game of Thrones a run for its money. Was the Roman empire really 'split in half'? How did Christianity become the official religion? And when did Rome *actually* fall?
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 07/08/2026
If you were a gladiator, what would your stage name be? If you were Greek, you had a long list of perfect names to choose from... shows.acast.com/ancient-hist...
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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I know you want this now, but first listen to the latest episode of The Delicious Legacy Podcast, all about the Epic History of Macaroni Cheese, available wherever you get your podcasts from! #podcast #macncheese #foodpodcast #foodhistory #ancientrome #cheese #pasta #applepodcast
a metal dish with mac and cheese with crispy toptwo rectangular white trays with mac and cheese on a table by the window sun shining through and a salad and bread. with a glass of water.A close up of a mac and cheese dish with a spoon picking up some with cheese stretching from the surface to the heaped spoon
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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In my life time? Gladiator, 300, Troy, and Alexander all come to mind and all since the year 2000. What happens each time is people say it will save the study of ancient history, it is loved for a bit before the next big thing happens: all while ancient history depts across the world shut.
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Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It turns out that @greekmythcomix.bsky.social is a superlative interviewer, taking on the role of host with aplomb. I could listen to Laura read the phone book, but once you've listened to her interview me about *my* book, you should listen to her read her *own* book! shows.acast.com/you-are-odys...
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You Are Odysseus: a retelling of the Odyssey where YOU are the hero
An interactive audiobook podcast
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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
An absolute pleasure to take the chair to get to interview @belovedofoizys.bsky.social about her own book for Ancient History 101! And it’s such a *good book*!
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 05/08/2026
It's not every day this podcast host publishes a book, so today's episode is a bit of a celebration! Temporarily stepping into Alexandra's interviewer shoes is the inimitable @lejenksbrown.bsky.social, as Alexandra talks about her book 'Gladiators in the Greek World' and her writing process.
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 03/08/2026
Mythography is the collection and compilation of myths, and the genre is millennia old - who knew that video games would continue the tradition? Our full episode on Greek Mythology in Video Games with Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social is out now!
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 31/07/2026
With all the furore over Nolan's diverse Odyssey cast, it turns out that video games have quietly been diversifying their own casts for years. Take the non-binary depiction of Hermes of #StrayGods! Our full episode examining Greek myths in video games with @alexvandewalle.bsky.social is out now!
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Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Had a genuine blast talking with @belovedofoizys.bsky.social on the Ancient History 101 Podcast about everything video games and mythology! We talk about games like Hades, Odyssey, Stray Gods, and more, and even about the kind of games we'd make ourselves. Thanks again for having me!
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🏰 Ben Paites 🏛️ @benpaites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If you love the Ancient World and video games, as I do, this is a great episode!
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 29/07/2026
Something a little different this week! Our new episode with @alexvandewalle.bsky.social talks about the various ways that video games treat and portray Greek myth, and it's more diverse than you might imagine! We discuss more than half a dozen games, from the good, the bad to the downright weird!
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 26/07/2026
When a historian comes to a conclusion, is that conclusions set in stone? Let's talk about Alexander the Great's Banquet of Reconciliation... Listen to our full Alexander episode with Stephen Harrison, out now!
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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We’ve got a copy of Alexandra Sills’ incredible new book ‘Gladiators in the Greek World' to give away - it’s signed and everything! Our review: www.workingclassicists.com/zine/book-re... T&Cs: UK only, ends 3rd Aug, RT this post and follow us and her (@belovedofoizys.bsky.social) to enter.
Cover of Gladiators in the Greek World featuring a relief of two pairs of gladiators fighting.
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 24/07/2026
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 24/07/2026
According to Plutarch, Alexander was precocious, witty, and always ready with a one-liner. For someone writing centuries after, such detailed anecodotes sound too good to be true - because they most probably are! But why? Listen to our full Alexander episode with Stephen Harrison to find out.
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 22/07/2026
A new episode dedicated to the birthday boy: Alexander the Great himself! Stephen Harrison jumps on the pod to talk about knotty source issues, cultural identity, military 'necessity', Andy Murray and the Great Man Theory. Think you know Alexander? Think again...
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 21/07/2026
24 hours left to snag a signed copy of this excellent book by entering either here or on instagram!
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 20/07/2026
Tutankhamun - the disabled Pharaoh! What conditions did he have? Listen to our episode with Alexandra Morris to find out what the discoveries made in his tomb tell us about the disability aids he used, how he managed his pain, and why some Egyptologists refuse to believe he was disabled at all!
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 20/07/2026
Coming up on Wednesday - Alexander the Great with none of that Great Man Theory nonsense. Hit subscribe to make sure you don't miss it!
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