Myths and History of Greece and Rome

Myths and History of Greece and Rome


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Chapter One Hundred and Forty Four: Travels and Calls
November 21, 2018

Manuel 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.

Chapter One Hundred and Forty Three: Back in the West - Part Three
November 04, 2018

A lot has been going on in the former Western Roman Empire in the 300 years between 1100 and 1400!

Chapter One Hundred and Forty Two: A Family at War Part Two
October 21, 2018

Introducing the Hokey Cokey Emperor. Is he in power or out? In, out, in, out!

Hospital
September 30, 2018

Podcast resumption.

Chapter One Hundred and Forty One: A Family at War Part One
July 31, 2018

Fractious and incompetent behaviour from the ruling family plunge the Empire into crisis. It’s not going to get any better!

Chapter One Hundred and Forty: The Final Recovery
July 01, 2018

A 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.

Back Next Weekend
June 24, 2018

The Myths and History of Greece and Rome will be back next weekend.

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Nine: One Empire, Two Empires, Three Empires, Four Empires.
May 07, 2018

Welcome 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!

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Eight: Capital, Crusades and Calamity
April 22, 2018

The Angeli prove themselves to be so incompetent that the capital of the Empire cannot withstand the crusading armies.  Calamity results.

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Seven: Angels of Destruction
April 01, 2018

Andronicus 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.