The original title was going to be Tarquin and the Roman Republic, but I'm saving that in case I ever start a synthpop group. But anyways, it really is the Roman Republic! We made it, although in all fairness it's not quite the Republic just ye

071 - Downfall of the Roman Kingdom

Jul 6th, 2016 43m 39s

It's not a podcasting mirage - it really is a new episode! And it's a long'un to make up for all the time we've been apart. So what do you say? Ready to come back to Rome? Sure you are!

070 - Legends of the Roman Kings

Oct 14th, 2015 20m 4s

Why legends? Because the first four kings of Rome have no historical corroborating evidence! I mean, they probably existed...seems like an awful lot of detail for supposedly fictional people...but we'll most likely never know for sure. That won

069 - Rome

Sep 21st, 2015 21m 2s

Ave Podcastorians! This is it - our first foray into the hallowed halls of Roman history, although in typical TPHOOW tradition...there's very little actual 'history' in this episode. Oh c'mon you know you missed it!And HEY who's that introduci

068 - Children of Mars

Mar 27th, 2015 27m 8s

This is it podcastorians, our last Carthage-centric episode for a bit! I thought about splitting this one in two but nahhhh if we're going to have one last Punic episode, then it should be a lengthy one! Now there may be a slight delay getting

067 - Agathocles

Mar 19th, 2015 22m 51s

Yes we’re still on Carthage, but Agathocles is the one in the spotlight here! He’s just so morally bankrupt, so diabolically fixated on personal glory, so obsessed with being the biggest Alexander the Great fanboy, that it’s just too good a sto

066 - Punic Ambitions

Mar 11th, 2015 21m 36s

The war for control of Sicily drags on and neither side looks particularly good in this! Tyrants, distrustful generals, poisonous politicians, and all around yuckiness. This was going to be the last chapter for now, but I came across a historic

065 - Carthage vs. Syracuse

Mar 5th, 2015 24m

The confrontation between the Hellenic and the Punic world was inevitable, but the battleground would be Sicily, a land quite near and dear to me! It's here that the balance of power would sway back and forth in a seemingly futile struggle. Of

064 - Carthage

Feb 24th, 2015 21m 33s

Carthage always seems to take a backseat in history to another big player in the Mediterranean. It could be because it's really tough to find solid writing on them...but hey, when has fact and evidence ever stopped this podcast! So we stretch t

063 - The Qin Dynasty

Jan 24th, 2015 22m 15s

King Zheng is all fired up to take on...well, pretty much everybody else! And in this episode we'll take a look at the short but important dynasty he founded. Then it's time to say goodbye for now to China!

062 - The Fortunes of Qin

Jan 6th, 2015 13m 58s

Let's start 2015 off with one of the best historical stories out of this time period! How does Qin go from a weird backwards region to conquering all of Zhongguo? And can a person's childhood explain why they become jerks later in life? Hmmmm..

061 - The Hundred Schools of Thought

Dec 31st, 2014 17m 59s

How many philosophers can we cover in one episode? 100? Ah…well no, but six is pretty good!

060 - The Spring and Autumn Period

Dec 19th, 2014 18m 52s

Who says you can’t condense 300 years of interstate fighting amongst hundreds of states into a near 20 minute episode? Well. I found a way!

059 - The Zhou Dynasty

Nov 28th, 2014 14m 1s

The Zhou might be the longest dynasty in Chinese history, but that's not entirely accurate! Their rule is divided into two parts because of what happens in this episode. Also featured here, is a reason why you SHOULD look a gift horse in the mo

058 - The Shang Dynasty

Oct 29th, 2014 17m 13s

The second dynasty of China, although it's the first we have written evidence for! The Shang certainly have an interesting history, although it's kind of all feeling like deja vu...

057 - The Xia Dynasty

Oct 7th, 2014 13m 24s

Armed with more primary sources, it's time to embark on our tour of China's dynasties! And where better to start then with the one people can't even agree existed.

056 - The Origins of China

Sep 1st, 2014 14m 32s

We begin our tour of ancient China! Gonna throw it out there right now, I do my best with the pronunciations. I think they're decent but they're not perfect. If you want to hear fluent speakers there are two excellent Chinese History podcasts a

055 - Empires and Invasions

Aug 1st, 2014 13m 31s

In this, our last exciting episode in Ancient India, we'll see what happens when good empires go bad! We're condensing a lot of 'civilizations' into this wrap-up episode - Baktrians, Kushans, and the always hard to pronounce Yuezhi, or Yueh-chi

054 - Ashoka the Great

Jul 25th, 2014 19m 37s

India's greatest emperor isn't known for his military conquests or building projects or really anything else other emperors do! What Ashoka has that others don't is a genuine compassion for life and a desire to spread happiness.Well, I mean, a

053 - Chandragupta Maurya & Son

Jul 12th, 2014 15m 37s

I originally planned this as a one shot episode on the Mauryans, but there's too many good stories! Also in this episode, our Macedonian timeline crosses into our current one. Normally you don't want to cross streams but since I don't see any a

052 - Magadha

Jul 5th, 2014 13m 28s

First off it's pronounced mah-guh-duh, not maGAHdah - so I got it right! Keep your ears open for a word I just can't say right no many how many times I try! This was initially supposed to be a longer episode but then I found a neat story that I

051 - Nirvana

Jun 27th, 2014 18m 11s

Smells like...an episode on some very important religious figures of Indian history!

050 - The Vedic Age

May 18th, 2014 19m 2s

An episode in which I try to mispronounce as many languages as possible, and then attempt to reconcile massive historical controversies in just under 20 minutes. Fun!

049 - The Indus Valley Civilization

Apr 17th, 2014 12m 9s

Our first episode in India! Although really most of it takes place in Pakistan. Not that either exist at this point. And it's another episode based on no written information whatsoever! Hooray!

048 - Alexander the Great pt.2

Mar 18th, 2014 29m 48s

Who says you can't condense the life and adventures of Western Civilization's most famous conqueror into two episodes? We wind up our travels with Alexander in this, our final episode with the ancient Greeks! Oh who am I kidding. I'm sure we