030 Herodotos and the Rise of Persia
The History of Ancient Greece
Ryan Stitt
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the life, influences, drawbacks, and positives of the "Father of History", Herodotos; and the political events of the Near East in the 7th and early 6th centuries BC, including the rise of the Medians and Neo-Babylonians and their destruction of the diminishing Assyrian Empire, and culminating with a young vassal king from the Persian city of Anshan, named Kyros, who overthrew the Medes and elevated the Achaemenid Persians among the other chief powers of the time (the Lydians, the Neo-Babylonians, and the Egyptians)
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2017/01/030-herodotus-and-rise-of-persia.html
Intro by Alison Innes and Darrin Sunstrum of the MythTake Podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:03.1 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:19.6 | Good evening. |
| 0:20.1 | And good night. And good night. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to the History of Ancient Greece podcast with Ryan Stitt. We are not Ryan. |
| 0:29.3 | Nope. Kish haven't figured it out. I am Alison Innes. And I'm Darren Sunstrom. |
| 0:34.7 | And we are the co-hosts of Myth Take. |
| 0:38.4 | So we just want to take a quick minute to tell you about our podcast, which looks at the myths of ancient Greece. |
| 0:46.2 | We, I don't know, what do we do? |
| 0:48.5 | We talk about the literature. |
| 0:50.4 | We do passage analysis and have discussions about ancient myth. |
| 0:53.8 | Different themes and topics. |
| 0:55.6 | So not so much storytelling as looking at the plays and poems, everything from Homer and the Homericans. |
| 1:03.9 | The tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Iskoulos. |
| 1:07.2 | Yeah, lots of material. |
| 1:08.8 | And we would love for you to join us and let us know what you think and join the conversation that we have every episode. |
| 1:14.9 | And where can they find out more about Myth Take, Allison? |
| 1:17.3 | Well, they can go to the handy website, MythTake.org. |
| 1:21.3 | They can find us on iTunes and Google Play. |
| 1:24.2 | And you can join our conversation on Twitter with the hashtag Myth Take. And I'm at |
| 1:30.4 | Innes Allison. And I'm at Darren Sunstrom. But why are we really here? Well, we're here to |
| 1:35.3 | introduce Ryan's podcast episode. Absolutely. And this week, it is about Herodotus. I love Herodotus. |
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