The Persian empire: everything you wanted to know

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🗓️ 24 January 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In the latest in our series tackling the big questions on major historical topics, Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, an expert in ancient history, responds to listener questions and popular internet search queries on the Persian empire. Once the largest empire the world had ever seen, Persia was one of the dominant powers of the ancient world.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's
0:15.6	best selling history magazine.
0:19.2	I'm Ellie Corporn.
0:27.6	Today's episode is the latest in our Everything You Wanted to Know series, where expert historians
0:33.3	respond to popular online search queries and questions that you've submitted by our
0:37.8	social media channels.
0:40.0	This time the topic is the Persian Empire.
0:43.2	Our expert is Lloyd Levellen Jones and putting your questions to him on everything from
0:48.0	Persian gods to their wars with the Greeks was BBC History magazine editor Robattar.
0:54.5	So today in the latest of our Everything You Wanted to Know podcasts, we're going to
0:58.0	be discussing the ancient Persian Empire.
1:01.2	And joining us to explore this topic is Lloyd Levellen Jones, who is professor in ancient
1:05.7	history at the University of Cardiff, an expert in the Persian Empire, and in fact he's
1:11.5	currently working on a new history of that empire, which is called Persians, the Age of the
1:16.2	Great Kings, and is due to be published next spring.
1:19.7	So Lloyd, welcome to the podcast.
1:21.1	How are you doing?
1:22.1	Thank you very much.
1:23.1	I'm doing pretty well given the strange, strange times that we're living through, but
1:27.9	doing okay.
1:28.9	So thank you very much.
1:29.9	I'm very much.
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