001: Prelude - The Greeks

Listen to this episode from The Hellenistic Age Podcast on Spotify. After emerging from the dark ages of the post-Mycenaean period, the city-states of the Greek Peninsula and Asia Minor managed to become powerful centers of intellectual and military tradition, coming into contact and conflict with neighboring Persia and, ultimately, themselves. Website (https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/2019/08/28/001-prelude-the-greeks/) iTunes: (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/001-prelude-the-greeks/id1377920930?i=1000410089664) SoundCloud: (https://soundcloud.com/user-103425037/episode-1-the-age-of-alexander-the-greeks) Stitcher: (https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-hellenistic-age-podcast) Spotify: (https://open.spotify.com/episode/26RPG7kSxRv2drzXaofiDl) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/HellenisticPod) Sources used: Herodotus: The Histories Plutarch: Life of Agesilaus Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Xenophon: Hellenica Johnathan M Hall: A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE