Hello, fellow fans of ancient Greece.

My name's Doug.

Just like you, I was really happy when Ryan Stitz, the History of Ancient Greece podcast, came out.

I had listened to monolithic history programs like the history of Rome and the history of Byzantium,

and I thought, hey, why doesn't somebody do

something similar on Greece? And then as if on Q, Ryan stepped up to the plate. He's already

covered an enormous amount of material. He's one of my favorite podcasters out there, and I suspect

that Kleisthenes and Herodotus and Thucydides and many others down there

in Hades are grateful to Ryan for bringing their stories to our commutes and our walks and our

jogs. I know I am. Ryan and I would like our listeners to know about each other's podcasts.

My own show is called Literature and History.

It's a podcast on literary history, beginning in ancient Mesopotamia, and moving forward from there.

Its website is...

Literature and History.com.

And there's a lot of original music and comedy music, background music, and that kind of thing in literature and history.

So so far I've covered Hesiod and Homer, Sappho, and Pindar, and I'm currently releasing

a long series of shows on ancient Greek drama, including Escalis and Sophocles and Euripides

and Aristophanes and that company. I've also covered literature of ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt and the Old Testament,

if you happen to be interested in those two.

In addition to offering introductions and nice long summaries of works of literature,

I also contextualize them in the historical periods that produced them,

hence my show's name,

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