Episode 218 - The Siege of Antioch
The History of Byzantium
Robin Pierson
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2020
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
The Crusaders set up a siege of Antioch. The vast size of the city makes it impossible to fully encircle. What follows is a battle of attrition as the Crusaders wait for the Turkic garrison to make a mistake and the garrison await reinforcements. Meanwhile Alexios makes his way to the centre of the Anatolian plateau to consolidate the return of Byzantine power. He also awaits news from Antioch.
Time Stamps - each section is broken up by our drum sound effect
00.00-03.05 Introduction
03.06-08.47 Why did the Crusaders have to capture Antioch?
08.48-14.22 Baldwin at Edessa
14.23-17.14 The political fragmentation of Syria
17.15-27.35 The geography of Antioch
27.36-33.52 Early stages of the siege
33.53-46.35 Winter stalemate. Suffering and desertions. Bohemond and Robert of Flanders drive off forces from Damascus
46.36-54.42 Victory over the forces of Aleppo
54.43-62.18 More fully surrounding the city
62.19-77.09 Antioch falls
77.10-84.24 The Crusaders besieged. Kerbogah attacks from the Citadel
84.25-87.46 Desperation and talk of surrender
87.47-92.03 Alexios goes home
92.04-100.19 The final battle
100.19-107.00 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium. |
| 0:12.4 | Episode 218. |
| 0:14.9 | The Siege of Antioch |
| 0:19.8 | Today as you may have noticed we have one of our rare epic length episodes of the history |
| 0:25.0 | of Byzantium. |
| 0:27.2 | The Crusader Siege of Antioch is one of those dramas that is well worth the price of admission. |
| 0:33.8 | The price in this case is the sheer amount of information one has to take in to get maximum |
| 0:38.9 | value from the story. |
| 0:41.9 | To help us out I'll be using the old drum sound effect. |
| 0:51.9 | Not to mark the passage of time or anything specific but simply to give us all a mental |
| 0:59.5 | breather as the scene changes. |
| 1:03.2 | I've also timestamped the episode. |
| 1:06.0 | You should be able to see it on your app in the episode description or you can find it |
| 1:11.2 | at the website. |
| 1:13.2 | This will break the episode up into digestible chunks each marked by our sound effect. |
| 1:20.2 | I thought this might help in case your mind starts to wander or if you need to go back |
| 1:25.0 | and listen to a bit of the episode again. |
| 1:28.8 | Given the slightly complicated geography of Antioch I think that might be essential. |
| 1:35.0 | I've put up maps and illustrations at the history of Byzantium.com and I would urge |
| 1:39.4 | you to take time to look at them. |
| 1:42.2 | I'm going to have to describe how the river Aronty's snakes through the landscape and |
| 1:47.8 | how that affected the rhythm of the siege. |
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