Listen, learn and laugh your ass off as Ray & Cam provide a blow-by-blow historical account of the life of the world's most successful general and empire builder - Alexander The Great.
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Renaissance Episode 1 – Constantine The Great
Our new series, The Renaissance Times, launched on Dec 24, 2017. Here’s the first episode! Go check out the rest of the series at therenaissancetimes.com.   […] The post…
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Subscribing To Renaissance
The Dark Ages are ending! As you may have realized, we published our very last Alexander episode last week! Now some of you might be wondering […] The post Subscribing To Renaissan…
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#122 – The Last Show
Well, here we are. Three years, 122 episodes, some of which were a LOT longer than an hour, so probably around 130-140 hours of story. We […] The post #122 – The Last Show ap…
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#111 – Ian Worthington
Professor Ian Worthington joins us again to talk about new book about Ptolemy! HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to […] The post #111 – Ian Wo…
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#96 – The Lost Testament of Alexander with David Grant
David Grant has just published a truly unique and fascinating book called “In Search of the Lost Testament of Alexander”. We recently had him on to […] The post #96 …
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#77 – JAMES ROMM
James Romm is an author, reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, NY. After getting his B.A. in […] The post #77 – JAMES ROM…
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#28 – The Battle Of Gaugamela, Part I
In this episode Alexander III of Macedon marches all the way from Alexandria in Egypt to Gaugamela (near Mosul in modern day Iraq) where Darius of […] The post #28 – The Batt…
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#23 – The Battle Of Issus
It's late 333 BCE. Alexander faces Darius on the battlefield for the first time! He's outnumbered – 3 to 1 or even 11 to 1, depending […] The post #23 – The B…
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#18 – Battle of the Granicus River
In this exciting episode, we see Alexander engage the Persians for the first time! We also talk about Persian religion, Zoroastrianism, and talk a little about […] The post #18 …
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#14 – The Death Of A King
After six long months and 14 episodes we finally end Chapter One of our series with Philip II's assassination. It's one of the craziest stories you'll […] The post #…
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#09 – Peter Adamson on Aristotle
If you’re not already one of the many fans of Peter Adamson’s “History Of Philosophy Without Any Gaps” podcast, you will be by the end of […] The post #09 &…
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#04 – King Philip Goes To War
King Philip bought some time with his peace treaties and marriages and used that time to re-engineer the Macedonian army and cavalry. In this (shortish due […] The post #04 –…
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#01 – The Saga Begins.
The saga begins! We kick off the new series talking about why Alexander The Great is worth discussing – cavalry commander at 16, king at 20, […] The post #01 – The Saga…
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#00 – Introducing The New Series
Hey folks! We’re very excited to announce our brand new kick-ass history series – THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. It’s going to be our wildest […] The post #00 &…