Hi, I'm Avon. And I'm Mark. And we're from the Endless Not Podcast, a podcast about history,

etymology, language, literature, and connections of all sorts.

We're here to introduce the History of Ancient Greece's episode on the Ionian revolt.

We've been fans of Ryan's work since his first episodes.

As a Romanist, and a medievalist, we're always interested in the history that lies behind

our own periods.

Our own podcast often covers Greek language, literature, and myth, like our episode about

Pluto.

Or the one about words for farm animals in Greek and Latin, or our series about color terms and

symbolism in Greek, Latin, and old English.

So when you've listened to this episode of Greek history, maybe come check out the endless

knot and see how all these things connect.

Now, for the last few episodes Ryan's been focusing on Persia giving us some of the background that Herodotus is Hellenocentric storytelling either doesn't know or kind of skews.

I think he's been doing a really good job of balancing the fun, sometimes gruesome or incredible stories with the more prosaic and sadly more probable versions.

But now he's turning to what can be called the first phase of the Greco-Persian Wars, the revolt by a group of

Ionian Greek cities against their Persian supported tyrants, and against Darius more generally.

So now we'll turn it over to him, and let's hear how it all got started.

Hello and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece.

Episode 35, The Ionian Revolt.

The first spark of a two decades long war between the Greeks and the Persians is what modern

scholars call the Ionian Revolt.

Perhaps the strongest reason was the Greek's immensely powerful love of freedom.

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