A soldier and A scholar
Join PhD and published author Peter Crawford and career military man Aric Ohlfsson on a journey through western civilization from 500 BC to 1500 AD. Our show is meant to be enriching academically but also fun and accessible portal into history for the everyman (and woman!)
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Episodes
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
After the course of the rebellion changes drastically, we join Inaros in a wild guerilla campaign, and watch as the final flame is snuffed out by a mother's vengeance
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Fortunes change drastically for the Persians, and for the Rebellion !!!
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Tuesday May 09, 2023
The Egyptian and (SURPISE!!) Athenians take it to the Persian anti-rebellion army, to devastating effect.....but to things take a turn for them in phase 2 ?
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
A grand rebellion breaks out in Egypt, offering Athens the irresistible chance to land a critical blow against the Persian empire.
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
This week, we use a document forbodingly called "THE DEATH LIST" to demonstrate how far Athens will spread its wings over the next several episodes. Do they cross from regional power into Empire ??
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Join us as we wrap up our introduction to Pericles, and ponder a murder mystery that may have changed the very fate a direction of western civilization!!!!
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
In this episode, we bring along part one of the introduction to Pericles, the leading man of our story and of Athens for a massive period of time, and the height of Athenian power.
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
With Sparta having made a fool out of its top defender in Athens, and Athens having settled escaped slaves on the border of a Spartan ally, the once so recently united land of Greece now stands as a box of tinder, ready to explode !!!!
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
On this week's episode, Cimon faces the music for the debacle in Sparta. How does yet ANOTHER of Athen's most important men end up on the outside looking in ?!
Friday Mar 03, 2023
Friday Mar 03, 2023
Great and unfortunate things lie ahead for Sparta, Cimon, and the Greek world
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