Entirely Unofficial Rest is History Catalogue and Interrogator

Ancient Civilisations & Classical Antiquity

152 Episodes 33 Series 194 Figures 78 Events 374 Books 1 Authors

Spanning the Bronze Age through the Roman Empire, episodes examine political, military, religious and cultural developments across the Mediterranean and Near East. Series include "Afghanistan" (Achaemenids, Alexander‑era campaigns and later regional history), "Alexander" (Macedonian origins, Aristotle’s education, campaigns and legacy), "Atlantis" (Plato and later receptions), "Beards" (symbolic roles of facial hair), and bonus interviews with Mary Beard on Caesar, the Trojan War, Alexander and Spartacus. Episodes cover Uruk, Greco‑Persian battles (Artemisium, Salamis), the Bronze Age collapse, Hadrian’s Wall, Carthage’s founding, the Bar Kokhba revolt and Roman Britain. Discussed figures and texts include Helen of Sparta, Antipater, Germanicus, Herod, Aulus Plautius, Spendius, Plutarch, Alexander to Actium, Moses and Monotheism and the Gospel of Mark.

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2023

10 episodes

Herodotus: The Birth of History

May 08, 2023

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Herodotus — his life, methods and enduring appeal — drawing on Tom Holl…

RIHC: The Death of Napoleon, South Vietnamese agency, and tent evangelists

May 03, 2023

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open by reflecting on recent live shows in London, Edinburgh and Salford, then …

RIHC: Tom's top books, historical guilt, and trigger warnings (livestream)

Mar 28, 2023

This live Rest Is History episode is a wide-ranging conversation between hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook center…

Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Ep 2)

Mar 20, 2023
Atlantis · Part 2

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue a multi-part exploration of the Atlantis myth, tracing its origins in …

Atlantis: The Legend (Ep 1)

Mar 20, 2023
Atlantis · Part 1

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the origins and afterlife of the Atlantis story, contrasting Graham Hancock’s…

RIHC: Reagan & Thatcher, Roman Britain, and -sleazy hacks-

Mar 15, 2023

This is a Rest Is History bonus episode in which Tom Holland recounts a three-day tour of Kent—visiting Roman lighthous…

RIHC: Roald Dahl, Scottish politics, and regal Reagan

Feb 22, 2023

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook conduct an informal episode covering reading notes, news and listener questions…

The Murder of Julius Caesar

Feb 13, 2023
Julius Caesar · Part 1

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook narrate the rise and fall of Gaius Julius Caesar, focusing on the political ten…

The Fall of the Roman Republic

Feb 13, 2023
Julius Caesar · Part 2

This episode continues the hosts' multi-part examination of Julius Caesar's assassination and its aftermath. Picking up…

The Greatest Female Pharaoh

Jan 30, 2023

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the life, career and legacy of the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut. They pl…

2022

2 episodes

RIHC: Señor Sandbrook de Buenos Aires, climbing volcanoes, and puddings

Dec 21, 2022

This episode is a wide-ranging mailbag and end-of-year discussion by hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. They begi…

Jesus Christ: The History (Ep 2)

Dec 19, 2022
Life of Jesus · Part 2

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the historical evidence for the life, death and legacy of Jesus of Nazareth. …
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Series in this era

33 series

Bonus Interviews with Mary Beard

4 episodes Aired: 2025-10-09 – 2025-10-31

Carthage

4 episodes Aired: 2024-02-19

Cleopatra

4 episodes Aired: 2022-06-13

Emperors of Rome

4 episodes Aired: 2025-01-27

Hannibal

4 episodes Aired: 2025-05-25 – 2025-05-26

Roman Civil War

4 episodes Aired: 2026-08-30

Rome's Greatest Enemy

4 episodes Aired: 2026-02-02

The Roman Conquest of Britain

4 episodes Aired: 2024-09-29

Greek Myths

3 episodes Aired: 2025-09-21

Persian Wars

3 episodes Aired: 2021-11-27

World Cup of Gods

3 episodes Aired: 2021-11-27

Alexander

2 episodes Aired: 2021-11-27

Atlantis

2 episodes Aired: 2023-03-20

Great World Cup Saga

2 episodes Aired: 2022-11-24 – 2022-12-12

Greece vs Persia

2 episodes Aired: 2026-05-10

Helen of Troy

2 episodes Aired: 2024-06-02

Holidays

2 episodes Aired: 2022-08-10 – 2022-08-22

Jewish Revolt / Destruction of Jerusalem

2 episodes Aired: 2022-04-18 – 2022-04-19

Julius Caesar

2 episodes Aired: 2023-02-13

Life of Jesus

2 episodes Aired: 2022-12-19

12 (or 13) Days of Christmas

1 episode Aired: 2021-12-25

American Civil War (1861 to 1865)

1 episode Aired: 2022-06-30

Beards

1 episode Aired: 2024-09-08

Disease

1 episode Aired: 2022-02-03

Indiana Jones double bill

1 episode Aired: 2023-06-26

Iranian Revolution

1 episode Aired: 2026-01-28

London Week

1 episode Aired: 2022-07-18

Paganism

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

Portugal

1 episode Aired: 2022-09-05

The End of the Roman Empire

1 episode Aired: 2022-02-28

The Odyssey

1 episode Aired: 2026-07-12

The Olympics

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

Titanic

1 episode Aired: 2024-03-13

Historical figures

194 tagged

Julius Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar)

55 episodes

Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon)

50 episodes

Augustus (Gaius Octavius Thurinus)

49 episodes

Herodotus

31 episodes

Nero

30 episodes

Cleopatra VII Philopator of Egypt

27 episodes

Marcus Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

26 episodes

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great)

24 episodes

Claudius (Roman Emperor)

20 episodes

Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus)

20 episodes

Plutarch

20 episodes

Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus)

18 episodes

Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony)

17 episodes

Tacitus (Publius Cornelius Tacitus)

17 episodes

Tiberius (Roman Emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus)

17 episodes

Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II of Persia)

16 episodes

Aristotle

14 episodes

Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus)

14 episodes

Hannibal Barca

14 episodes

Titus (Roman Emperor, Titus Flavius Vespasianus)

14 episodes

Xerxes I of Persia

14 episodes

Gaius Marius

13 episodes

Jesus of Nazareth (Jesus Christ)

13 episodes

Philip II of Macedon

13 episodes

Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus)

13 episodes

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

12 episodes

Thucydides

12 episodes

Domitian (Roman Emperor)

11 episodes

Euripides

11 episodes

Livy (Titus Livius)

11 episodes

Marcus Licinius Crassus

11 episodes

Polybius

10 episodes

Socrates

10 episodes

Pericles (of Athens)

9 episodes

Plato

9 episodes

Boudica (Boudicca / Boadicea)

8 episodes

Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis)

8 episodes

Darius I (Darius the Great), King of Persia

8 episodes

Hamilcar Barca

8 episodes

Paul the Apostle (Saint Paul)

8 episodes

Scipio Aemilianus (Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus)

8 episodes

Aeschylus

7 episodes

Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV)

7 episodes

Mark Antony

7 episodes

Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus)

7 episodes

Vespasian

7 episodes

Flavius Josephus

6 episodes

Gaius Cassius Longinus

6 episodes

Marcus Aurelius

6 episodes

Marcus Junius Brutus

6 episodes

Pontius Pilate

6 episodes

Sophocles

6 episodes

Spartacus

6 episodes

Cadmus

5 episodes

Cassius Dio

5 episodes

Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)

5 episodes

Hannibal

5 episodes

Herod the Great

5 episodes

Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

5 episodes

Leonidas I of Sparta

5 episodes

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

5 episodes

Priam (king of Troy)

5 episodes

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

5 episodes

Trajan

5 episodes

Vitellius

5 episodes

Bagoas

4 episodes

Commodus (Roman Emperor Commodus)

4 episodes

Darius III of Persia

4 episodes

Demosthenes

4 episodes

Gnaeus Julius Agricola

4 episodes

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

4 episodes

Mary (mother of Jesus)

4 episodes

Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon

4 episodes

Publius Quinctilius Varus

4 episodes

Pyrrhus of Epirus

4 episodes

Sargon of Akkad

4 episodes

Sporus

4 episodes

Titus

4 episodes

Agathocles of Syracuse

3 episodes

Agrippina the Younger (Julia Agrippina)

3 episodes

Alcibiades

3 episodes

Amenhotep III

3 episodes

Antinous

3 episodes

Appius Claudius Caecus

3 episodes

Aristophanes

3 episodes

Arminius

3 episodes

Arrian

3 episodes

Berenice (Julia Berenice, daughter of Herod Agrippa)

3 episodes

Cambyses II of Persia

3 episodes

Caratacus

3 episodes

Cleomenes

3 episodes

Croesus (King of Lydia)

3 episodes

Diodorus Siculus

3 episodes

Ephialtes

3 episodes

Europa

3 episodes

Galba (Emperor of Rome)

3 episodes

Germanicus

3 episodes

Gisco

3 episodes

Hephaestion

3 episodes

Horace

3 episodes

Ishtar

3 episodes

Joseph (husband of Mary)

3 episodes

Josephus

3 episodes

Livia (Livia Drusilla)

3 episodes

Mago

3 episodes

Mahabal

3 episodes

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

3 episodes

Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder)

3 episodes

Marduk

3 episodes

Moloch

3 episodes

Otho

3 episodes

Ovid

3 episodes

Parmenion

3 episodes

Pausanias

3 episodes

Pentheus

3 episodes

Poppaea Sabina

3 episodes

Ptolemy I Soter

3 episodes

Ptolemy XIII of Egypt

3 episodes

Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

3 episodes

Scipio Africanus (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus)

3 episodes

Seneca

3 episodes

Solon

3 episodes

Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus)

3 episodes

Trajan (Roman Emperor)

3 episodes

Tutankhamun

3 episodes

Venus (Roman goddess)

3 episodes

Vercingetorix

3 episodes

Archimedes

2 episodes

Aulus Plautius

2 episodes

Aurelian (Lucius Domitius Aurelianus)

2 episodes

Baal

2 episodes

David (biblical king of Israel)

2 episodes

Decimus Junius Brutus

2 episodes

Galen

2 episodes

Galerius

2 episodes

Hatshepsut

2 episodes

Hesiod

2 episodes

Janus

2 episodes

Jason

2 episodes

Juno (Roman goddess)

2 episodes

Juvenal

2 episodes

Lucius Sergius Catilina

2 episodes

Mary Beard

2 episodes

Mithras

2 episodes

Olympias of Epirus

2 episodes

Ptolemy

2 episodes

Ptolemy I Soter of Egypt

2 episodes

Quintus Fabius Maximus

2 episodes

Saint Peter

2 episodes

Seleucus I Nicator

2 episodes

Septimius Severus

2 episodes

Silius Italicus

2 episodes

Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus, Roman Emperor)

2 episodes

Valerian (Roman emperor)

2 episodes

Vitellius (Emperor of Rome)

2 episodes

Zoroaster

2 episodes

Agamemnon

1 episode

Agrippina

1 episode

Amun-Ra

1 episode

Bessus

1 episode

Confucius

1 episode

Daniel (biblical figure)

1 episode

Elagabalus

1 episode

Electra

1 episode

Hatshepsut of Egypt

1 episode

Hippocrates

1 episode

Hiram (king of Tyre)

1 episode

Isaac

1 episode

Isis (Egyptian goddess)

1 episode

Jeremiah (biblical prophet)

1 episode

Joseph of Arimathea

1 episode

Joshua (biblical leader)

1 episode

Judas Iscariot

1 episode

Leonidas

1 episode

Lucius Cornelius Scipio

1 episode

Mago Barca

1 episode

Mary Magdalene

1 episode

Medea

1 episode

Otho (Marcus Salvius Otho)

1 episode

Polyphemus

1 episode

Publius Cornelius Scipio

1 episode

Pythagoras

1 episode

Quintus Fabius Maximus (Fabius Maximus Cunctator)

1 episode

Quintus Lutatius Catulus

1 episode

Ramesses II

1 episode

Ramesses II of Egypt

1 episode

Regulus

1 episode

Remus

1 episode

Sappho

1 episode

Scipio Nasica

1 episode

Strabo

1 episode

Tiresias

1 episode

Xenophon

1 episode

Yahweh

1 episode

Historical events

78 tagged

Trojan War

16 episodes

Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD, Roman Empire)

15 episodes

First Punic War (264–241 BC, Mediterranean)

14 episodes

Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC)

13 episodes

Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC)

13 episodes

Roman conquest of Britain (from AD 43)

13 episodes

First Judean–Roman War (66–73 CE) / Destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE)

12 episodes

Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BC)

11 episodes

Battle of Marathon (c. 490 BC)

10 episodes

Battle of Thermopylae

10 episodes

Battle of Salamis (480 BC)

9 episodes

Crossing of the Rubicon (49 BC)

9 episodes

Destruction of Carthage (Third Punic War, 149–146 BCE)

9 episodes

Roman conquest of Gaul (Gallic Wars, c.58–50 BCE)

9 episodes

Battle of Actium (31 BC)

7 episodes

Siege and destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70)

7 episodes

Great Fire of Rome (64 AD)

6 episodes

Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem / Babylonian exile

5 episodes

Battle of Cannae (216 BC)

5 episodes

Caesar's Civil War (49–45 BC)

5 episodes

Founding of Carthage (c.814 BC)

5 episodes

Battle of Lake Trasimene (20 June 217 BC)

4 episodes

Battle of Plataea (479 BC, Greece)

4 episodes

Boudicca's Revolt (1st century AD)

4 episodes

Caesar's expeditions to Britain (55–54 BC)

4 episodes

Fall of the Roman Republic (1st century BCE)

4 episodes

Hannibal's crossing of the Alps (218 BC)

4 episodes

Punic Wars (264–146 BCE, Western Mediterranean)

4 episodes

Second Punic War (218–201 BC)

4 episodes

Alexander the Great's conquest of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire (334–330 BC)

3 episodes

Bar Kokhba Revolt (c.132–136 CE, Judea)

3 episodes

Battle of Carrhae (53 BC)

3 episodes

Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC)

3 episodes

Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)

3 episodes

Battle of the Granicus (334 BC)

3 episodes

Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9 CE)

3 episodes

Battle of the Trebia (218 BC)

3 episodes

Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus (c. 30–33 CE, Jerusalem)

3 episodes

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (AD 79) / Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum

3 episodes

Ionian Revolt (499–493 BC)

3 episodes

Persian invasion of Greece (480 BC)

3 episodes

Third Punic War / Siege of Carthage (149–146 BC)

3 episodes

Third Servile War (Spartacus Slave Revolt, 73–71 BC)

3 episodes

Trajan's Eastern / Parthian Campaigns (early 2nd century AD)

3 episodes

Trajan's conquest of Dacia (Dacian Wars, 101–106 AD)

3 episodes

Battle of Philippi

2 episodes

Battle of Pydna (168 BC)

2 episodes

Battle of Zama (202 BC)

2 episodes

Bluestone circle construction at Stonehenge (c. 3200 BC)

2 episodes

Bronze Age collapse (c.1200 BCE)

2 episodes

Burning of Persepolis (c. 330 BC)

2 episodes

Catilinarian Conspiracy (63 BC)

2 episodes

Conquest by Sargon (around 2300 BC)

2 episodes

Construction of Hadrian's Wall (AD 122, Britain)

2 episodes

Construction of Hadrian's Wall (c. 122 AD)

2 episodes

Cyprian's Plague (3rd century)

2 episodes

Death of Alexander and the Wars of the Diadochi

2 episodes

Death of Nero (9 June AD 68)

2 episodes

Hellenistic era (c. 323–31 BC)

2 episodes

Mercenary War (approximately 241–238 BC)

2 episodes

Persian invasions of Greece (490 and 480 BC)

2 episodes

Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC)

2 episodes

Roman capture of Jerusalem by Pompey (63 BC)

2 episodes

Roman civil wars (1st century BC)

2 episodes

Siege of Saguntum (218 BC)

2 episodes

Composition/performance of the Homeric epics (Iliad and Odyssey) (c. 8th–7th century BCE)

1 episode

Cutting of the Gordian Knot

1 episode

Deposition of Romulus Augustulus / Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476, Italy)

1 episode

End of the Bronze Age (late 2nd millennium BC)

1 episode

Eruption of Thera / Santorini (c. 1600 BC)

1 episode

Fall of Akkad (Bronze Age around 2000 BC)

1 episode

Fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century CE)

1 episode

Greek Dark Ages

1 episode

Persian Wars

1 episode

Sarsen monument construction and rearrangement at Stonehenge (c. 2500 BC)

1 episode

Stonehenge Solstice Gatherings (Annual, Stonehenge, England)

1 episode

Treaty ending First Punic War (241 BC)

1 episode

Troy 7A (VIIa) destruction (c.1180 BCE)

1 episode

Books

374 tagged

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Author: Tom Holland

16 episodes

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Author: Tom Holland

16 episodes

The Iliad

Author: Homer

13 episodes

The Odyssey

Author: Homer

11 episodes

I, Claudius

Author: Robert Graves

10 episodes

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Author: Tom Holland

9 episodes

Dominion

Author: Tom Holland

8 episodes

The Histories

Author: Herodotus

8 episodes

The Aeneid (standardized)

Author: Virgil

6 episodes

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (standardized)

Author: Edward Gibbon

6 episodes

In the Shadow of the Sword

Author: Tom Holland

5 episodes

Antony and Cleopatra

Author: William Shakespeare

4 episodes

Alexander to Actium: The Hellenistic Age

Author: Peter Green

3 episodes

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Author: Tom Holland

3 episodes

Madame Bovary

Author: Gustave Flaubert

3 episodes

Pagan Britain

Author: Ronald Hutton

3 episodes

Pompeii

Author: Robert Harris

3 episodes

Quran (Koran)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

3 episodes

Salammbô

Author: Gustave Flaubert

3 episodes

The Aeneid (standardized)

Author: Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

3 episodes

The Republic

Author: Plato

3 episodes

The Wolf Girl, The Greeks and The Gods

Author: Tom Holland

3 episodes

Theogony

Author: Hesiod

3 episodes

300

Author: Frank Miller

2 episodes

Acts of the Apostle s

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

Adventure in Time (Series)

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

Agricola

Author: Tacitus

2 episodes

Asterix (comic series)

Author: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo

2 episodes

Bible (Book of Kings, Isaiah, Ezekiel, 1 Chronicles)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

Book of Exodus

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

Author: Simon Schama

2 episodes

Commentaries of Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar's memoirs)

Author: Julius Caesar

2 episodes

Crime and Punishment

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

2 episodes

Flashman (series )

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

2 episodes

Gospel of John

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

Gospel of Mark

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

Gospel of Matthew

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

2 episodes

History of the Peloponnesian War

Author: Thucydides

2 episodes

Julius Caesar

Author: William Shakespeare

2 episodes

King Solomon's Mines

Author: H. Rider Haggard

2 episodes

Ladybird books

Author: L. Du Garde Peach (and various)

2 episodes

Lives (Parallel Lives)

Author: Plutarch

2 episodes

Magicians of the Gods

Author: Graham Hancock

2 episodes

Metamorphoses

Author: Ovid

2 episodes

Munich

Author: Robert Harris

2 episodes

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author: George Orwell

2 episodes

Oedipus (Oedipus Rex)

Author: Sophocles

2 episodes

Ramayana

Author: Valmiki

2 episodes

Rubicon

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

The Bacchae

Author: Euripides

2 episodes

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

2 episodes

The Divine Comedy

Author: Dante Alighieri

2 episodes

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire

Author: Kyle Harper

2 episodes

The Gospels

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

The Realness of Things Past

Author: Greg Anderson

2 episodes

The Rest is History: History's Most Curious Questions Answered

Author: Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

The Talmud

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

The Thorn Birds

Author: Colleen McCullough

2 episodes

The Trojan Women

Author: Euripides

2 episodes

The Viking Way

Author: Neil Price

2 episodes

Timaeus

Author: Plato

2 episodes

Torah

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

Twelve Caesars

Author: Mary Beard

2 episodes

Ulysses

Author: James Joyce

2 episodes

Utopia

Author: Thomas More

2 episodes

When Montezuma Met Cortez

Author: Matthew Restel

2 episodes

28-volume treatise on agriculture

Author: Unknown

1 episode

A Clockwork Orange

Author: Anthony Burgess

1 episode

A History of the World in 51 Heroes and Villains

Author: Unknown

1 episode

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) (series)

Author: George R. R. Martin

1 episode

A Stranger in Corfu

Author: Alex Preston

1 episode

A Very Short Introduction to Iran

Author: Ali Ansari

1 episode

Absalom, Absalom!

Author: William Faulkner

1 episode

Adventure in Time, the Fall of the Aztecs

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Adventures in Time: Alexander the Great

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Adventures in Time: Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Aeneid

Author: Virgil; translation mentioned as Robert Fagel

1 episode

After Tamerlane

Author: John Darwin

1 episode

After the Ice

Author: Stephen Mithin

1 episode

Agamemnon

Author: Aeschylus

1 episode

An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

Author: Charles Beard

1 episode

An Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

Author: Simon Schama

1 episode

Ancient Apocalypse

Author: Graham Hancock

1 episode

Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization

Author: Guillermo Algarze

1 episode

Animal Farm

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Annals

Author: Cornelius Tacitus

1 episode

Anne of Gaiosteen

Author: Walter Scott

1 episode

Antigone

Author: Sophocles

1 episode

Arcadia

Author: Sanazaro

1 episode

Archimedes Fulcrum of Science

Author: Nicholas Nicastro

1 episode

Argonautica

Author: Apollonius of Rhodes

1 episode

As You Like It

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Asterix in Britain

Author: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo

1 episode

Atlantis, The Anti-Diluvian World

Author: Ignatius Donnelly

1 episode

Augustus

Author: Alan Massie

1 episode

Babylonian Talmud

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Bacchae

Author: Euripides

1 episode

Beatrice Last Smile and Beatrice

Author: Mark Gregory Pegg

1 episode

Berlin

Author: Anthony Beaver

1 episode

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

Author: Moody Al Rashid

1 episode

Beyond a Boundary

Author: C. L. R. James

1 episode

Beyond the Wall

Author: Katja Heuer

1 episode

Bhagavad Gita

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Biff, Chip and Kipper (series)

Author: Roderick Hunt

1 episode

Biography of Augustus the Strong

Author: Tim Blanning

1 episode

Biography of Henry Kissinger

Author: Niall Ferguson

1 episode

Biography of Ronald Reagan

Author: Bob Spitz

1 episode

Black Athena

Author: Martin Bernal

1 episode

Blood Meridian

Author: Cormac McCarthy

1 episode

Book of Revelation

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Brave New World

Author: Aldous Huxley

1 episode

Britain

Author: Linda Colley

1 episode

Britannia Failed State

Author: Stuart Laycock

1 episode

Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity

Author: Liz Truss; co-authors mentioned in transcript: Dominic Raab and 'Quasi quartering'

1 episode

Bulfinch's Mythology

Author: Thomas Bulfinch

1 episode

Burmese Days

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (screenplay/film)

Author: William Goldman

1 episode

Caligula (play)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Cannae

Author: Schlieffen

1 episode

Cannae, The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War

Author: Greg Daly

1 episode

Carry On Cleo

Author: Frank Muir

1 episode

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Author: Roald Dahl

1 episode

Chocolat

Author: Joanne Harris

1 episode

Circe

Author: Madeline Miller

1 episode

Claudius Caesar

Author: Josiah Osgood

1 episode

Claudius the God

Author: Robert Graves

1 episode

Code of Hammurabi

Author: Hammurabi

1 episode

Cold Mountain

Author: Charles Fraser

1 episode

Commentaries on the Gallic War (Commentarii de Bello Gallico)

Author: Julius Caesar

1 episode

Condit

Author: Voltaire

1 episode

Conquest of New Spain

Author: Diaz

1 episode

Critias

Author: Plato

1 episode

Cyrus Cylinder

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

1 episode

Death Comes as the End

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Death of a Salesman

Author: Arthur Miller

1 episode

Diaries of John Evelyn

Author: John Evelyn

1 episode

Diaries of Kenneth Williams

Author: Kenneth Williams

1 episode

Dido and Aeneas

Author: Henry Purcell

1 episode

Digging Up Britain, A New History and 10 Extraordinary Discoveries

Author: Mike Pitts

1 episode

Disturbing the Water

Author: Peter Wise

1 episode

Don Quixote

Author: Miguel de Cervantes

1 episode

Dracula

Author: Bram Stoker

1 episode

Dune

Author: Frank Herbert

1 episode

Eagle of the Ninth

Author: Rosemary Sutcliff

1 episode

Echo Lands

Author: Duncan McKay

1 episode

Echo Lens

Author: Duncan McKay

1 episode

Eminent Victorians

Author: Lytton Strachey

1 episode

Epic of Gilgamesh

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Epicurean texts (library of Philodemus)

Author: Philodemus

1 episode

Epistle to the Galatians

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Epistles to the Corinthians (New Testament letters to the Corinthians, unspecified which)

Author: Paul the Apostle

1 episode

Euripides and Dionysus

Author: R. P. Winnington Ingram

1 episode

Fatherland

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Faults of Qin

Author: Jia Yi

1 episode

Fifth Son

Author: Camilla Townsend

1 episode

First Letter to the Thessalonians

Author: Paul

1 episode

Fodor's guide to Egypt

Author: Fodor's Travel Guides

1 episode

Foundation (series)

Author: Isaac Asimov

1 episode

Foundation and Empire

Author: Isaac Asimov

1 episode

Fourth Eclogue

Author: Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

1 episode

Frankenstein

Author: Mary Shelley

1 episode

Funeral Games

Author: Mary Reynolds

1 episode

Genesis

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Germania

Author: Tacitus

1 episode

Global Crisis

Author: Jeffrey Parker

1 episode

God Beneath the Sea

Author: Leon Garfield

1 episode

God and Anatomy

Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

1 episode

Gone with the Wind

Author: Margaret Mitchell

1 episode

Gospel of Luke

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Great History of Britain

Author: Shepard Freer

1 episode

Guinness Book of Records

Author: Guinness World Records

1 episode

Hannibal and Scipio

Author: Simon Hornblough

1 episode

Hannibal and the Enemies of Rome

Author: Peter Connolly

1 episode

Harry Potter (series)

Author: J. K. Rowling

1 episode

Hatshepsut the Female Pharaoh

Author: Joyce Tardsley

1 episode

Henry IV, Part I

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Henry V

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Herodotus (Penguin Classics translation)

Author: Herodotus; translated by Tom Holland

1 episode

Historia Augusta

Author: Scriptores Historiae Augustae

1 episode

Historical work (fragments) attributed to Seneca the Elder

Author: Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

1 episode

History of England

Author: David Hume

1 episode

History of Rome

Author: Livy

1 episode

Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

Author: Michael Baigent; Richard Leigh; Henry Lincoln

1 episode

How to Build Stonehenge

Author: Mike Pitts

1 episode

Ilium

Author: Dan Simmons

1 episode

Ilium and Olympus

Author: Dan Simmons

1 episode

Imperial Possession

Author: David Mattingly

1 episode

In Pisonem

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

1 episode

In Search of the Phoenicians

Author: Josephine Quinn

1 episode

Ithaca

Author: Constantine P. Cavafy

1 episode

James and the Giant Peach

Author: Roald Dahl

1 episode

Jeremiah

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

Author: Robert Baucom

1 episode

Joseph and His Brothers

Author: Thomas Mann

1 episode

Kebra Nagast (The Glory of the Kings)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

King Lear (Nahum Tate's rewritten version)

Author: Nahum Tate

1 episode

L'Armée imaginaire: Les soldats prolétaires dans les légions romaines au dernier siècle de la République

Author: François Cadiou

1 episode

La Cistrata

Author: Aristophanes

1 episode

Leader and the Swan

Author: William Butler Yeats

1 episode

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

Author: David Remnick

1 episode

Letters of Pliny the Younger

Author: Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus)

1 episode

Leviticus

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Libation Bearers

Author: Aeschylus

1 episode

Libra

Author: Don DeLillo

1 episode

Life of Themistocles (Biography)

Author: Plutarch

1 episode

Magna Carta

Author: David Carpenter

1 episode

Mahabharata

Author: Vyasa

1 episode

Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

Author: Roberto Colasso

1 episode

Matilda

Author: Roald Dahl

1 episode

Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Memoirs of the 20th Century

Author: Samuel Madden

1 episode

Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City

Author: Gwendolyn Lyke

1 episode

Metropolis

Author: Ben Wilson

1 episode

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

Miso Pogon

Author: Julian the Apostate

1 episode

Moses and Monotheism

Author: Sigmund Freud

1 episode

Moses the Egyptian

Author: Jan Asman

1 episode

Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown

Author: Virginia Woolf

1 episode

Murder on the Orient Express

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

My Family and Other Animals

Author: Gerald Durrell

1 episode

Neuromancer

Author: William Gibson

1 episode

New Testament

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Oedipus at Colonus

Author: Sophocles

1 episode

Of Arms and Men: Why Rome Always Won

Author: Bret C. Devereaux

1 episode

Old Testament

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Oliver Twist

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

One Flow Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Author: Ken Kesey

1 episode

Orator: The Life of Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic

Author: Catherine Edwards

1 episode

Ornamentalism

Author: David Candidine

1 episode

Our Bodies There Battlefield

Author: Christina Lam

1 episode

Ozymandias

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

1 episode

Palace in Split

Author: A. H. M. Jones

1 episode

Pandemonium

Author: Humphrey Jennings

1 episode

Paradise Lost

Author: John Milton

1 episode

Persian Fire

Author: Dan Brown

1 episode

Persian Fire

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

Philip Pullman novels (series referenced)

Author: Philip Pullman

1 episode

Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean

Author: Carolina Lopez-Ries

1 episode

Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease in the Course of Human History

Author: Kyle Harper

1 episode

Pressure

Author: David Hague

1 episode

Prospero's Cell

Author: Lawrence Durrell

1 episode

Psalms

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Ptolemaic Alexandria

Author: P. M. Fraser

1 episode

Quotations from Chairman Mao (The Little Red Book)

Author: Lin Biao (compiler attributed in discussion)

1 episode

Rabbit series

Author: John Updike

1 episode

Ragnarok, The Age of Fire and Gravel

Author: Ignatius Donnelly

1 episode

Raw Hide Down

Author: Del Quentin Wilbur

1 episode

Recessional

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

Revelation

Author: Saint John

1 episode

Richard II

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Right Dominion

Author: Unknown

1 episode

Roman Homosexuality

Author: Craig Williams

1 episode

Roman infrastructure in early medieval Britain: the adaptations of the past in text and stone

Author: Mateusz Fafinski

1 episode

Satires (Books 1–5)

Author: Gaius Lucilius

1 episode

Satyricon

Author: Petronius

1 episode

Scouting for Boys

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

1 episode

Seasons in the Sun

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Second Book of Kings

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Second Foundation

Author: Isaac Asimov

1 episode

Second Letter to the Thessalonians

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Septuagint (Greek translation of Hebrew scriptures)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

Author: Matthew Restel

1 episode

Shahnameh (Book of Kings)

Author: Fadawsi

1 episode

Short Introduction to Orvid

Author: Llewellyn Morgan

1 episode

Slough House novels / Slough House series

Author: Mick Herron

1 episode

Socrates in Love

Author: Armand D'Angor

1 episode

Spring and Summer Annals - Official chronicle of the State of Lu covering the period from 722 BCE to 481 BCE

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Star Wars (novelization)

Author: Alan Dean Foster

1 episode

Stonehenge Decoding

Author: Gerald Hawkins

1 episode

Tabatek Singh

Author: Sadat Hasan Manto

1 episode

Talking Classics

Author: Mary Beard

1 episode

Tanakh / Old Testament

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Tanglewood Tales

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

1 episode

Tarka the Otter

Author: Henry Williamson

1 episode

Thatcher's Britain

Author: Richard Vynan

1 episode

The 1619 Project

Author: Nikole Hannah-Jones

1 episode

The Aeneid

Author: Virgil

1 episode

The Age of Decadence

Author: Simon Heffer

1 episode

The Ark of the Covenant

Author: Roderick Grierson; Stuart Monroe Hay

1 episode

The Ascension of Isaiah

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

The Augustan History

Author: Anonymous

1 episode

The Bacchi

Author: Euripides

1 episode

The Birth of Tragedy

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

1 episode

The Buried Giant

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

1 episode

The Cambridge Ancient History

Author: Unknown

1 episode

The Churchill Play

Author: Howard Brenton

1 episode

The Curse of Akkad

Author: Anonymous

1 episode

The Dark Room at Longwood

Author: Jean-Paul Kaufman

1 episode

The Darkening Age

Author: Catherine Nixey

1 episode

The Dream of Rome

Author: Boris Johnson

1 episode

The End of History

Author: Francis Fukuyama

1 episode

The Epistle to the Romans

Author: Saint Paul

1 episode

The Escape Artist

Author: Jonathan Friedland

1 episode

The Fortress

Author: Alexander Watson

1 episode

The God Forsakes Anthony

Author: Constantine Cavafy

1 episode

The Golden Ass

Author: Publius

1 episode

The Great Cryptogram

Author: Ignatius Donnelly

1 episode

The Greeks and the Irrational

Author: E. R. Dodds

1 episode

The Hero with the Thousand Faces

Author: Joseph Campbell

1 episode

The Histories

Author: Polybius

1 episode

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Author: José Saramago

1 episode

The Hobbit (There and Back Again)

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

1 episode

The Holy Man in Late Antiquity (essay/work)

Author: Peter Brown

1 episode

The Humanities (referred to in episode)

Author: Aeschylus

1 episode

The Hunger Games

Author: Suzanne Collins

1 episode

The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam

Author: Gerald Horting

1 episode

The Innocence of Pontius Pilate

Author: David Lloyd Duesenbury

1 episode

The Intellectuals and the Masses

Author: John Carey

1 episode

The Interpretation of Dreams

Author: Sigmund Freud

1 episode

The Judean War

Author: Flavius Josephus

1 episode

The Last Assassin

Author: Peter Stoddart

1 episode

The Laws

Author: Plato

1 episode

The Library of Babel

Author: Jorge Luis Borges

1 episode

The Life of the First Emperor

Author: Hong Shidi

1 episode

The Lord of the Rings

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien

1 episode

The Making of Oliver Cromwell

Author: Ronald Hutton

1 episode

The Meeting

Author: Matthew Restel

1 episode

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The New Atlantis

Author: Francis Bacon

1 episode

The New Roman Empire

Author: Anthony Kaldellis

1 episode

The Nobles' Revolt

Author: John Adamson

1 episode

The Northumbrians

Author: Dan Jackson

1 episode

The Old Curiosity Shop

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

The Parthenon

Author: Mary Beard

1 episode

The Persian Boy

Author: Mary Reynolds

1 episode

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Author: Oscar Wilde

1 episode

The Princess Bride

Author: William Goldman

1 episode

The Punica

Author: Silius Italicus

1 episode

The Pursuit of Victory - The Life and Achievements of Admiral Horatio Nelson

Author: Roger Knight

1 episode

The Raft of Odysseus

Author: Carol Doughty

1 episode

The Red and the Black

Author: Stendhal

1 episode

The Reign of Hadrian

Author: Arrian (Lucius Flavius Arrianus)

1 episode

The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

Author: Anna Kay

1 episode

The Road

Author: Cormac McCarthy

1 episode

The Roman Army

Author: Peter Connolly

1 episode

The Roman Revolution

Author: Ronald Syme

1 episode

The Romans in Britain

Author: Howard Brenton

1 episode

The Ruin

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

The Sacred Register

Author: Euhemerus

1 episode

The Second Sex

Author: Simone de Beauvoir

1 episode

The Secret Adversary

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant

Author: Graham Hancock

1 episode

The Sleepwalkers

Author: Chris Clarke

1 episode

The Sound and the Fury

Author: William Faulkner

1 episode

The Spanish Civil War

Author: Hugh Thomas

1 episode

The Tempest

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

The Thief Who Stole Nothing, A Volume of the Time Chronicles

Author: David Hunt; Roderick Hunt; Alex Brichter

1 episode

The Third World War

Author: General Sir John Hackett

1 episode

The Three Musketeers

Author: Alexandre Dumas

1 episode

The Time Traveller's Guide to a Particular Period

Author: Ian Mortimer

1 episode

The Vanished Library

Author: Luciano Canfora

1 episode

The Wall and the Books

Author: Jorge Luis Borges

1 episode

Tiberius and His Age: Myth, Sex, Luxury and Power

Author: Edward Champlin

1 episode

Time on the Cross

Author: David Garrow

1 episode

Time on the Cross

Author: Stanley Engerman; Robert Fogle

1 episode

Translation of Juvenal (1748)

Author: Samuel Johnson

1 episode

Travel guide to Greece (unnamed in transcript)

Author: Pausanias

1 episode

Travels and Researches in Chaldea, or Chaldea, and the Susiana

Author: Sir William Loftus

1 episode

Tristram Shandy

Author: Laurence Sterne

1 episode

Twelve Caesars

Author: Suetonius

1 episode

War Game

Author: Anthony Price

1 episode

War and Society in Early Rome: From Warlords to Generals

Author: Jeremy Armstrong

1 episode

Where Troy Once Stood

Author: Jakob Wilkens

1 episode

White Heat

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

White Noise

Author: Don DeLillo

1 episode

Why Alfred Burnt the Cakes

Author: David Horseball

1 episode

Wine the Global History

Author: Kathleen Burke

1 episode

Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: A. A. Milne

1 episode

Work by Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics edition mentioned)

Author: Michael Psellus

1 episode

Work on the growth of Christianity during plagues (title unspecified)

Author: Rodney Stark

1 episode

Works of Plutarch (unnamed passage on Cleopatra)

Author: Plutarch

1 episode

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