164. 580s BC part 4 - The Battle of the Eclipse

Fan of History - A podcast by Dan Hörning & Bernie Maopolski - Wednesdays

Lots of hard to pronounce names in this one and lot's going on!Nebuchadnezzar - who's still on the warpathPsammetichus - RIPAnkhnesneferibre - Listen to Dan and Bernie pronounce her nameAstyages - the Median crown prince gets a wifeCambyses - the new King of AnshanWe have a good Herodotus story about Scythians, an underground city in Anatolia, battles in Sicily and Sardinia, and The Battle of the Eclipse. All that and more... seriously there's more! Don't miss it!This is a podcast by Dan Hörning and Bernie Maopolski.If you like what we do you can support the Fan of History project on https://www.patreon.com/fanofhistoryContact information: http://facebook.com/fanofhistoryhttps://twitter.com/danhorninghttps://www.instagram.com/dan_horning/Music: “Tudor Theme” by urmymuse. Used here under a commercial Creative Commons license. Find out more at http://ccmixter.org/files/urmymuse/40020 Support the show and listen ad-free to all of the episodes, including episode 1-87. Click here: https://plus.acast.com/s/history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.