Podcast
Myths and History of Greece and Rome
Hosted by Paul Vincent · EN
A journey through the myths and history of Ancient Greece and Rome for all the family.
10episodes
Episodes
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Chapter One Hundred and Forty Four: Travels and Calls
Nov 21, 201800:20:28Tap to summarizeManuel II goes a-calling on the heads of state of the major European powers in order to find some support in saving his dying empire.
Transcribe →Chapter One Hundred and Forty Three: Back in the West - Part Three
Nov 4, 201800:13:23Tap to summarizeA lot has been going on in the former Western Roman Empire in the 300 years between 1100 and 1400!
Transcribe →Chapter One Hundred and Forty Two: A Family at War Part Two
Oct 21, 201800:21:38Tap to summarizeIntroducing the Hokey Cokey Emperor. Is he in power or out? In, out, in, out!
Transcribe →Chapter One Hundred and Forty One: A Family at War Part One
Jul 31, 201800:17:09Tap to summarizeFractious and incompetent behaviour from the ruling family plunge the Empire into crisis. It’s not going to get any better!
Transcribe →Chapter One Hundred and Forty: The Final Recovery
Jul 1, 201800:18:50Tap to summarizeA brilliant general becomes Emperor of Nicaea. It only takes him a few years to regain the great city of Constantinople. Unfortunately everyone is out to get him and it takes a lifetime of juggling to stabilise his empire.
Transcribe →Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Nine: One Empire, Two Empires, Three Empires, Four Empires.
May 7, 201800:18:05Tap to summarizeWelcome to nearly sixty years of total and utter chaos. Four empires and at least twenty emperors fight, make alliances, break alliances and generally fail to get on. Something has to give!
Transcribe →Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Eight: Capital, Crusades and Calamity
Apr 22, 201800:18:46Tap to summarizeThe Angeli prove themselves to be so incompetent that the capital of the Empire cannot withstand the crusading armies. Calamity results.
Transcribe →Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Seven: Angels of Destruction
Apr 1, 201800:16:17Tap to summarizeAndronicus Comnenus could not, quite obviously, be allowed to continue as Basileus. If only his demise, like that of Domitian for example, had been planned. Then, perhaps, the chaos and incompetence that followed could have been avoided.
Transcribe →Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Six: The Great and the Terrible
Mar 18, 201800:17:54Tap to summarizeManuel Comnenus thinks big but is a bit to pro-western. His cousin, though, is an entirely different kettle of fish!
Transcribe →Very Important Announcement
Mar 10, 201800:01:51Tap to summarizeIntroducing the new mythandhistory website. www.mythandhistory.co.uk
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