How to Win a War? Ask Clausewitz
When we talk about war today, we are speaking the language of Clausewitz, whether we know it or...
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The great ancient Chinese military theorist, Sun Tzu, is the master of the indirect way of war....
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How to Win a War? Ask Thucydides
The great ancient Greek historian and theorist still has a lot to teach us about war, strategy,...
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Episode 4.3: Love and Sex and the Roman Emperors
The emperors Vespasian, Titus, Hadrian, and Septimius Severus all had career-defining love...
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Episode 4.2: Mothers, Sons, & Roman Emperors
The fascinating stories of three Roman emperors and their mothers: Tiberius & Livia, Nero &...
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Episode 4.1: War and Peace and the Roman Emperors
How peaceful was the Roman Peace – the famous PAX ROMANA? Join me in a look at three great...
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Episode 3.12: Teutoburg Forest
“Give me back my legions!” cried the Roman Emperor, but it was too late. Rome’s crushing defeat...
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Episode 3.11: Greece: History, Myth, and Music in the Land of the Gods
Let’s discover Greece firsthand together this summer on an education vacation that will take us...
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Mark Antony! Octavian Caesar! And Cleopatra! They fought in the Battle of Actium to decide the...
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Was it war, crime or a self-inflicted wound? It was, in any case, the greatest battle between...
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It’s hardly a household word today, but Zama decided the fate of Rome. Join us for the epic...
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Hannibal’s victory at Cannae was one of the most dramatic in history yet ultimately one of the...
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Follow one of history’s most dramatic clashes of kings, when Alexander and Darius fought, for the...
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Learn how Alexander won his first clash with the Persian army, in a cavalry battle on the banks...
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Episode 3.3: Thermopylae and Us, A Conversation with Brett McKay
We talk to Brett McKay, of The Art of Manliness, about Thermopylae, 300 Spartans, and their...
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“Go Tell the Spartans” – and what that famous phrase means.
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What’s the history of the great battle behind the famous race? Join us and find out.
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears for the real story of Caesar’s Funeral.
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Episode 2:3: The Ides of March
What really happened in the Roman Senate meeting where Julius Caesar was assassinated? Join me...
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