Episodes

A look at the great counterpart of the Roman Republic: Carthage. How the Phoenicians colonized the Western Mediterranean and what little else we can learn about this ancient culture that the Romans destroyed completely by the...

The history before history. For most of human existence, there was no such thing as writing. Yet our ancestors did leave records and remains that we can study to learn more about the human past. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Imag...

History and prehistory. Before the dawn of writing, the human past is shrouded in darkness. The episodes of the Ancient World explore events before and just after the rise of civilization. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for ...

The Romans expand beyond their central Italian limits. In the 4th and 3rd century BC, they conquer their enemies and allies in central and southern Italy. They are led by consuls like Publius Decius Mus, who sacrificed his ow...

The stories of three heroes of the early Roman Republic: Coriolanus, Cincinnatus and Camillus. The struggle between the social classes is known as the Conflict of Orders. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

God establishes a covenant with Abram. The journey to Egypt. Altars in Canaan. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

In the eighth episode of the Roman series of the Western Traditions Podcast, we embark on a journey back to 509 BC when the Roman Republic was born from the ashes of monarchy. Discover how the Senate, patricians, and consuls ...

How to teach the first lesson of the Western Traditions curriculum.

The introduction to the Western Traditions podcast. The Great Books of the Western World and the Bible. The great men and women of western civilization. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

The seven kings of Rome. Numa Pompilius succeeds Romulus. The line of kings ends with Tarquinius Superbus. Some background on Roman institutions, practices and vocabulary. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

The story of Romulus and Remus. With the capture of the Sabine women, Rome expands territorially and biologically. The birth of the glory of Rome. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

The Table of Nations. The Tower of Babel. Introduction to Abram. Genealogy and numerology in the Bible. God brings diversity to humanity. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

Using outlines to enhance study. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

Our souls are deathless, but nothing retains its own form. Thus speaks Pythagoras in this long and winding tale that combines ancient myth and history. Through a Roman lens, we read of Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Hercules, Ulysse...

The gods through the eyes of the earliest Romans. The Indo-European religious inheritance. Jupiter, Juno, Mars, Minerva. The precision and discipline of Roman religious practice. The ties to early Christianity. RECOMMENDED RE...

God chastises the world with the Flood. Only Noah and his family are spared. A breakdown of symbols and morality in the flood narrative. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

Pyrrhus, Greek king and general, fights the Roman tide that threatens to wash over the entire Greek world. The Seleucid Empire and Ptolemaic Egypt flourish and endure. The Maccabees revolt in Judea and start the Hasmonean dyn...

Alexander the Great dies and leaves behind a fragmented world of multi-cultural states led by Greek soldiers. The Hellenistic period which follows brings western ideas in to East. More than anything, it paves the way for East...

Alexander the Great at the Battle of Granicus, the Battle of Issus and at Gaugamela. Jerusalem and Gaza. The Temple of Ammon in Egypt. His horse Bucephalus. His strategos Parmenio. Darius III flees to the East. RECOMMENDED RE...

The youth of Alexander the Great. His strange mother Olympias. His friends Ptolemy, Nearchus and others. Cleopatra , Darius III and the fall of Thebes. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

Virgil writes of Aeneas and the Trojan origins of Rome. The tale is both distinctively Roman and notably Greek. Heroes such as Odysseus and Achilles are recalled, as are monsters such as Scylla and Cerberus. The relationship ...

Phillip II of Macedonia. Alexander the Great. The Sacred Band of Thebes. A brief digression on Greek sexuality. Olympias. Leuctra, Mantinea, Chaeronea. Epaminondas. Pelopidas RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

Exitus and Reditus. The theology of the genealogies in the Bible. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

The philosophical works of Aristotle. Metaphysics, Ethics and Politics. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link: