Creation by Gore Vidal – Swords Sorcery & Socialism Crossover Part 2

Trevor and Aurora from Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism found the perfect crossover episode with Creation by Gore Vidal: a historical fiction novel set in the 5th Century BCE that follows a fictional descendant of Zoroaster on his worldwide journey to understand the mysteries of the universe.
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Creation by Gore Vidal – Swords Sorcery & Socialism Crossover Part 1

Trevor and Aurora from Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism found the perfect crossover episode with Creation by Gore Vidal: a historical fiction novel set in the 5th Century BCE that follows a fictional descendant of Zoroaster on his worldwide journey to understand the mysteries of the universe.
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125.2: Ask Me Anything Again… Again

You, the listeners of this very podcast, are phenomenal, thoughtful, inquisitive people. So I have done my very best to answer your many, many questions about the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Alexander the Great, and myself.
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History of the Celts
r/AskHistorians post about supply lines
Patreon RSS feed instructions
Persian Music by ItShowTimeMusic
The Complete Fragments of Ctesias of Cnidus by Andrew Nichols
Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and James Robson

125.1: Ask Me Anything Again

You, the listeners of this very podcast, are phenomenal, thoughtful, inquisitive people. So I have done my very best to answer your many, many questions about the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Alexander the Great, and myself.
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History of the Celts
r/AskHistorians post about supply lines
Patreon RSS feed instructions
Persian Music by ItShowTimeMusic
The Complete Fragments of Ctesias of Cnidus by Andrew Nichols
Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and James Robson

ASW 04: Trieste, a hot start to the Cold War, Part 2

Postage stamp from Trieste Zone B shortly after the official end of Yugoslav occupation

Trevor is joined by Roberto Toro and Brendan Foster (@foster_writing) of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) podcasts to discuss the post war occupation of Trieste and how tensions with Yugoslavia almost started World War III less than a year after World War II.
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Goldstein – Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947
Jenning – Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War
Allock – Border and Territorial Disputes
Rogers Churchill and Slany – Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe…
Winston Churchill – “Iron Curtain” Speech
Dinardo – Glimpse of an Old World Order? Reconsidering the Trieste Crisis of 1945
Morrison – Eastern Europe and the West
NYT – Attack on U.S. Airplane; Patterson says shooting down of Americans was ‘Wicked’ and…
NYT – Text of 2 U.s. Notes Answer Yugoslavia; His Plane Downed
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 23 August 1946

ASW 03: Trieste, a hot start to the Cold War, Part 1

Postage stamp from Trieste Zone B shortly after the official end of Yugoslav occupation

Trevor is joined by Roberto Toro and Brendan Foster (@foster_writing) of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) podcasts to discuss the post war occupation of Trieste and how tensions with Yugoslavia almost started World War III less than a year after World War II.
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Goldstein – Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947
Jenning – Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War
Allock – Border and Territorial Disputes
Rogers Churchill and Slany – Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe…
Winston Churchill – “Iron Curtain” Speech
Dinardo – Glimpse of an Old World Order? Reconsidering the Trieste Crisis of 1945
Morrison – Eastern Europe and the West
NYT – Attack on U.S. Airplane; Patterson says shooting down of Americans was ‘Wicked’ and…
NYT – Text of 2 U.s. Notes Answer Yugoslavia; His Plane Downed
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 23 August 1946

122: Alexander in Love

Marriage of Alexander and Roxane, Il Sodoma c. 1517

Alexander the Great had many relationships, both romantic and familial. From mother and father, Olympias and Philip, to a vast array of step-mothers and siblings to at least four romantic and sexual partners, the Macedonian royal family was as vast as it was confusing and controversial.
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