Episode 25: A small pass in northern Greece becomes the site of a heroic stand by a small(ish) Spartan-led Greek army against the largest...

Let’s get this out of the way... Monty Python’s Life of Brian is a comedic and satirical masterpiece. There are so many scenes which...

Episode 24: Can the Greek city-states set aside their long-standing differences and come together to face the overwhelming power of the...

The appearance of three False Neros in the two decades after the emperor’s death in 68 was not the only ‘afterlife’ that Nero had. He...

Episode 23: Mad kings fall, heroes rise, court intrigue... just a few of things going on in Sparta during the interbellum......

Confronted with rebellions by Vindex in Gaul and Galba in Spain and rumours of the allegiance of Verginius Rufus’ army in Germania, the...

In 216BC, the Italian countryside played host to the Battle of Cannae between the forces of Carthage and the legions of the Roman...

Episode 22: With Persian war seemingly on the backburner, we take a look at the interbellum period of Athens, complete with political...

We saw last time that the career of Pierius must have been significant enough before his appearance in the historical record for Odoacer...

Episode 21: Between Marathon and the next Persian invasion of Greece, the Achaemenid Empire faced ten years of upheaval, with the death...

Flavius Odoacer is most famous as the man who deposed the ‘last’ western emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476, becoming the first non-Roman...

Episode 20: A break down the impact of the battle of Marathon, its fallout, and some of the incredible stories and legends told by...

The doctrinal divide that sealed the fate of Qatari’s burgeoning Azariqa statelet in Kirman was not the first instance of such internal...

Episode 19: The first great contest between a Greek army and the Persians in Greece... https://mncvgk.podbean.com/e/a-soldier-and-a-schol...

Most of the focus on the Second Fitna – the second civil war that engulfed the Arab caliphate upon the accession of Yazid I, son of...

Episode 17: Persia crosses the Aegean sea once more to continue exacting revenge on the Greek world, this time at the expense of Eritrea...

History is littered with instances of power being thrust upon children of a young age. Ivan the Terrible became Grand Prince of Moscow...

Episode 17: The Persian revenge tour begins with the arguably incorrect title of the 'First' Persian invasion https://mncvgk.podbean.com/...

We all make mistooks when writing. I made one in teh first sentence of this blog. And the second… (and my word processor informs me that...

Episode 16: Since the burning of Sardis, things have steadily collapsed for the Ionian rebels, to the point that they are left with a...