Casting Through Ancient Greece Podcast
1) Teaser: Persia Regroups (Patreon)
Victory monuments told one story; Persian strategy told another. We pull back the curtain on how the Achaemenid Empire absorbed defeat at Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale yet remained a decisive force by ...Show More
2) 100: Sicily, The Hard Road Ahead
A shocked city, a careful army, and a plateau that decides everything. We follow the tense weeks after Athensā first win outside Syracuse, when momentum gave way to method. Nicias, often branded cauti...Show More
3) Teaser: The Strategic Vacuum (Patreon)
Victory didnāt end the story; it changed the rules. After Mycale and Plataea, the Persian threat receded, the Aegean opened, and a vacuum pulled Athens, Sparta, and Persia into a new contestāone fough...Show More
4) 99: The Arrival in Sicily
Bronze flashed on the water and songs filled the air as our fleet left the Piraeus, but the shine faded fast along the Italian coast. Harbors opened while hearts stayed closed, Segestaās ātreasureā di...Show More
5) Teaser: Legacy of Victory (Patreon)
A continent-spanning empire bore down on a patchwork of rival city-statesāand out of that pressure, a people discovered themselves. We follow the Greek victories over Persia from raw survival to a mor...Show More
6) 98: Launch of the Sicilian Expedition
Trumpets sounded over the Piraeus and a cityās confidence took shape in bronze and oars. We follow the launch of the Sicilian Expedition from the charged votes in the Assembly to the glittering depart...Show More
7) Teaser: Mycale in the Wider War (Patroen)
Empires can lose in stagesāand the moments in between can matter most. We dive into the chain that turned Xerxesā massive gamble into Greek momentum: the trap at Salamis, the phalanx at Plataea, and t...Show More
8) Teaser: Pausanias at Plataea (Patreon)
The complicated legacy of Pausanias, Spartan regent and commander at Plataea, reveals the razor-thin line between military glory and personal disgrace. When Persian forces under Mardonius threatened G...Show More
9) 97. Sicily, Deciding Disaster
The Sicilian Expedition stands as one of history's most infamous military disastersāa bold gamble that crippled Athenian power and ultimately sealed their fate in the Peloponnesian War. But what drove...Show More
10) 96: Melos, Might & Right
The aftermath of the Battle of Mantinea marks a critical turning point in the Peloponnesian War, as Sparta reasserts its dominance while Athens grapples with the moral contradictions of empire. With ...Show More