418 Episodes

  1. How Alexander the Great's Soldiers Spent Their Money

    Published: 12/25/2025

  2. Two Murders at the Dawn of History (Lost Worlds Audiobook Preview)

    Published: 12/18/2025

  3. Past Lives: Nanaya'ila'i and the Bleeding Edge of the Assyrian Empire

    Published: 12/15/2025

  4. The Economic Life of Megakles, Farmer of Classical Athens

    Published: 12/11/2025

  5. Doing History through Movies: Interview with Dr. Jason Herbert

    Published: 12/4/2025

  6. Listen to Patrick's New History Podcast, Past Lives

    Published: 12/3/2025

  7. Why Was Classical Athens So Rich?

    Published: 11/27/2025

  8. Patrick's New History Show, Past Lives, Launches December 3rd!

    Published: 11/21/2025

  9. Why the Hundred Years War Actually Lasted Two Hundred Years: Interview with Professor Michael Livingston

    Published: 11/20/2025

  10. The Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Iron Age Mediterranean

    Published: 11/13/2025

  11. Love, War, and Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age: Interview with Professor Eric Cline

    Published: 11/6/2025

  12. Building the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings

    Published: 10/30/2025

  13. The Story of Carbon Dioxide is the Story of Everything: Interview with Journalist Peter Brannen

    Published: 10/23/2025

  14. Living and Working in Imperial Babylonia

    Published: 10/16/2025

  15. The Ancient Economy from Assyria to Augustus

    Published: 10/9/2025

  16. Interview with Dr. Owen Rees (Book, The Far Edges of the Known World releases 9/30/25)

    Published: 10/2/2025

  17. Thucydides, the Greatest Historian of All Time: Interview with Robin Waterfield and Professor Polly Low

    Published: 9/25/2025

  18. Alexander's Successors and the Danube Frontier

    Published: 9/11/2025

  19. The Celts Invade Greece

    Published: 9/11/2025

  20. The First Cities North of the Alps: Interview with Professor Manuel Fernandez-Götz

    Published: 9/4/2025

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Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it at work, what language we speak and how we raise our children. From Wondery, host Patrick Wyman, PhD (“Fall Of Rome”) helps us understand our world and how it got to be the way it is.Listen to Tides of History on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to bonus episodes available exclusively and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/tides-of-history/ now.