Review of The History of Ancient Greece - Outstanding, thorough,

Outstanding, thorough, and well organized!

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“Ryan Stitt’s The History of Ancient Greece, which just started coming out in April 2016, is the podcast that many fans of ancient and classical history have been waiting for. It has the huge sweep and careful research of The History of Rome, which is all the more impressive considering the following. In dealing with Ancient Greece, Ryan isn’t really dealing with a unified political body, like, say, the Roman Republic or Empire. During the Mycenaean period, and Greece’s Dark and Archaic ages right up into the famous events of the 400s BCE, Greece was not a confederated political body. It was a swarming hub of city states and islands – Aegina and Corcyra, Corinth and Thebes, Megara and Argos, Myteline and Chios, Sparta and Athens – always unruly and shifting alliances. This made Greece a surprisingly difficult conquest for Darius, Xerxes, and Mardonious during the early Persian Period, and it certainly makes doing a nicely paced, well organized podcast on Ancient Greece really challenging. Ryan rises to the challenge marvellously, though. His educational background on the subject is obviously extremely robust. He knows the language, and his experience as a teacher and scholar both shine through, episode after episode. The amount of research legwork that he must have to do to create even a single show must be daunting – but week after week, he continues to produce outstanding programs that repay multiple listens, somehow making black figure pottery every bit as interesting as hoplite warfare. As if all this isn’t enough, his website is absolutely wonderful – each week he adds an enormous amount of content to give you images, diagrams, and maps pertinent to various subjects – architecture, art, weaponry – whatever he’s covering in any given episode. As a fellow ancient history enthusiast and podcaster, I can tell you you’re in excellent hands with Ryan Stitt’s The History of Ancient Greece. He has a full outline posted on his webpage that culminates with the death of Alexander the Great. But I – and I think a lot of his listeners – hope he continues to share his knowledge with us by extending the show far past that point!”

Literature and History Podcast via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 08/30/16

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billwil via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 07/19/17

Well done

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“Happy to discover this new podcast. Interesting and well presented.”

Glenn in AZ via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 06/18/16

Wonderful