Spartan History Podcast

EPISODE 14, JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE PART 2.
Welcome back to the Spartan History Podcast. This time around it's back to the story of Jason and his quest for the fleece.
I begin with a digression into the evolution of the story itself and take a look at possible eastern influences along with a quick look through it's references by pre-Apollonian authors.
Picking up the mythical thread where it was previously left, book 2 of Apollonius's Argonautica covers the Argo's voyage from the southern entry of the Bosporus channel through to the eastern edges of the Black sea.
I follow suit and describe the various stops the Argonauts make along the way and obstacles they faced in detail. We'll learn about the poor hygiene practiced by the Harpies, what made Amazons such good archers and why you should always ask somebody their name before challenging them to fight.
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Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast. This is the first episode not based in the bronze/mythic age and takes a look at the Dark age era of Spartan history.
It's an intrinsic period to the city that would one day dominate Greece as it was the time that saw it's foundation. Although anachronistically mentioned by Homer in his works, archaeology has as yet not detected any Mycenaean palace in the region of Sparta. Certainly nothing fit for Menelaus and Helen.
All evidence points to the Spartan's settling on the west bank of the Eurotas river around the middle of the 10th century BCE.
The jury is still out on where they came from previously and in this episode we'll take a look at all the different possibilities, both mythic and factual to parse out what truths we can about origin of this enigmatic people.
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Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast, this will be part 2 of my series on the Bronze age collapse, and the final episode set in the Heroic/Bronze period.

​After having established all of the major players in the eastern Mediterranean region in the previous episode, it's time to discover the fate of Homer's Achaean, aka the Mycenaean's.

I expound upon the various ills besetting their society and set the seen for what I believe to be a mass migration event at the close of the age. Hopefully, building a strong case for the Greeks participation in the Sea people events of the period.

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Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast, in this months episode we'll start a two part investigation into the Bronze age collapse of eastern Mediterranean civilisation. ​

So in this, the first part, the scene for collapse will be set. Focusing on the empires and city-states that were within the Mycenaean sphere of influence to understand the various factors at play during this period of turmoil. ​

The mysterious sea people are central to my narrative and as I work through the source material I'll pay particular attention to the goings on of popular histories scapegoats.

​I finish by leaving the final piece of the puzzle up in the air, the fate of the Mycenaean's. They will be the entirety of my focus for part 2.

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Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast, in this months episode we'll be taking a look at a few of my favourite myths. ​

First, the story of Perseus and Andromeda. From a difficult beginning the hero would rise above his apparently low birth to become one of the premier monster hunters of the age.

​Next it will be the story of Bellerophon and Pegasus that will be our focus. He conquered all but would finish his days in misery, a tale of mans reach exceeding his grasp.​

Lastly the tragedy of Oedipus will round out the trilogy of myths. A tale of despair and woe, the devastating story of fate's inescapable grip.
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