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I hope you enjoyed the March episode and hope you find the below content useful! Here’s a link to the episode on Numa I have also done a specific article going about the Salii where you can see an example of the shield shape which I discussed. I also mentioned the Lupercalia and this has […]
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I hope you enjoyed the episode, in it I mentioned the Lupercalia – here’s a link to that episode. There are also episode notes for this so check it out! If you want to read a bit about the Fornacalia – here’s a recent piece I did on it. Lustratio. This ritual was quite common
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Well, I hope you enjoyed what I had to say about Fasti and January. I mentioned a couple of videos which go into the whole ‘J’ thing and here they are: Fasti I mentioned how we had few which survived. Here’s the oldest surviving Fasti and its reconstruction. The days are in columns with letters
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The ancient Siciliy miniseries has been great fun and I hope you have enjoyed it – I will pick it up again sometime but this episode seemed a good place to pause things. You can find episode notes for the previous episode here – and why not check out the subreddit for this pocast? I
Ancient Sicily – Dionysius I: Poetry and Politics. Episode Notes. Read More »
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I hope you have enjoyed the ancient Sicily miniseries – here is some supporting content! Don’t forget to rate and review – I forgot to mention that you can also find this podcast on Reddit. Maps In order to orientate the below map is very good. You can see Motya off the western coast, to
Ancient Sicily – Dionysius I: Countering Carthage. Episode notes. Read More »
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I hope you enjoyed the episode, what was going to be a two-part episode is becoming an ongoing mini-series on ancient Sicily and I’m really enjoying researching writing and recording it. If you have any feedback get in touch! If you want to have a look at some coins from Himera, Acragas, Selinus and Syracuse
Ancient Sicily- Revenge & Ruin. Episode notes. Read More »
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I hope you enjoyed the third episode. As mentioned this was going to cover way too much and I had to leave quite a bit out to accommodate this topic. A shoutout to Sistory History who did a promo swap – check out their podcast. Don’t forget you can contact me directly (and if you
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Tyrants formed much of the background to this episode so I hope you didn’t suffer from tyrant fatigue! Here are some extra bits which I hope will help you enjoy the episode more. Maps. Below you can make out the wider Greek world around Sicily and how those colonies were networked. In the episode I
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I hope you enjoyed the episode on Magna Graecia, as promised here is some more content (including the sources I used/ further reading) and the transcription. In case you are interested here’s the link for the museum at Pithekoussai – it’s got some great information. Perhaps one day I’ll get to visit. There is also
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Helots of Sparta – some information. I hope you enjoyed my latest episode on the helots – don’t forget to rate or review on the platform you use! You can find the episode below and others on my Podcast site. As you might expect Ancient History Hound is on most platforms – so check it
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