102 Livin' on a (Persian) Prayer
The History of Ancient Greece
Ryan Stitt
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the years 413 and 412 BC of the Peloponnesian War, including Athens' response at home to the Sicilian Disaster, the Spartan and Theban devastation of Attic agriculture and commerce from Dekeleia, the dissolution of the "friendship" between Athens and Persia, Sparta's building up of a navy and encouraging of revolts of Athens' subject-allies, the shifting of the war to the eastern Aegean, and a series of treaties are made between Sparta and the Persian satrap Tissaphernes
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2020/05/102-livin-on-persian-prayer.html
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| 0:00.0 | Some sailors from Crete were sailing across the Mediterranean and Apollo took the form of a dolphin. |
| 0:11.6 | She would say metamorphon. |
| 0:13.7 | It makes a metamorphosis. |
| 0:15.8 | Metamorphosis. |
| 0:16.8 | A dolphin. |
| 0:17.8 | And appeared to them in their boat. |
| 0:19.7 | And it's going up to the ship and all the crew just scared very much what's happened. |
| 0:28.4 | And he said I'm the Apollo, not worry. |
| 0:31.7 | And said, being sailors come to Delphi and attend me at my temple and they came |
| 0:38.4 | and they've been there ever since. It's said that she personally decapitated many, many men, but when they entered the palace of the |
| 0:52.2 | Pashim, she came face to face with his wife, who begged |
| 0:57.2 | her to save her life and the lives of all the other women in the harem. She remembered her promise to the emperor's mother |
| 1:06.8 | years ago and she turned toward her own Greek troops and wielded her sword in defense of the women of the |
| 1:17.0 | harem. She saved every last woman in the palace and this act is one of the centerpieces of her legend. |
| 1:27.0 | Hey history of ancient Greece listeners. I'm Katie Nelson and I'm Olivia |
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