EPISODE 29 I Drink and I Know Things (Where History and Game of Thrones Intersect)

History on Fire

Daniele Bolelli

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 141 minutes

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“No matter how much I make up, there’s stuff in history that’s just as bad, or worse.” George R.R. Martin “Though I would treasure your friendship, I am mainly interested in your facility with murder” Tyrion Lannister “That’s what I do. I drink and I know things.” Tyrion Lannister “If we don’t put aside our enmities and band together, we will die. And then it doesn’t matter whose skeleton sits on the Iron Throne.” Ser Davos Seaworth Sansa “Now, I’m sure cutting off heads is very satisfying, but that’s not the way you get people to work together.” Sansa Stark I always say that history is really no different from Game of Thrones (minus the dragons). The passion, brutality, the joys and heartbreak, human greatness and human pettiness… it’s all there. And as it turns out the connection between history and the world created by George R.R. Martin’s run deep. In this episode, I am joined by Aziz Al-Doory from The History of Westeros Podcast, and together we discuss some (definitely not all) of the ways in which history has influenced Game of Thrones. In this episode we’ll tackle: The Wall & Hadrian’s Wall, flaying, human sacrifice, feeding enemies to dogs, Agamemnon and Stannis Baratheon, parallels with the Bible, the Dothraki and nomadic steppe peoples, execution by molten gold, the real life examples of the High Sparrow, the walk of shame, the inquisition, the Red Wedding, the siege of Constantinople & the battle of Blackwater Bay, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whether you like history or not, if you care about bravery, wisdom, passion, larger than
0:06.8	life characters and some of the most emotionally intense moments in human experience, you have
0:11.6	come to the right place.
0:13.2	Danielle Lille-Bollelli is a university history professor, writer, and martial artist,
0:17.5	and he shall be your guide and a journey to the place where history and epic collide.
0:30.0	Danielle Lille-Bollelli is a university history professor, writer, and a journey to the place where history and epic collide.
1:00.9	If you are interested in supporting the podcast, you can become a patron for History on Fire.
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