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The Campaigns of Pyrrhus of Epirus: In this our first video / audio recording Jasper, Michael, Lindsay and Josho look at Pyrrhus. Pyrrhus was the second cousin to Alexander the Great, and at only two years he began his career as a penniless exile after his father was dethroned. Pyrrhus...

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010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts: “The next Malcolm Gladwell.” That's what fans and critics from Forbes to The L.A. Times are calling innovation expert and keynote speaker Shane Snow, the bestselling author of SMARTCUTS: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success. An award

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Book Club: Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman: If you like to read biographies to find the ideas that extraordinary people have used to achieve great things, then you want to read this book.

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Announcing The New Series!: Hey folks! We’re very excited to announce our brand new kick-ass history series – THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. It’s going to be our wildest and best series yet! This is the guy that both Napoleon and Caesar admired and studied,

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03.2 The Battle of Gaugamela 331 BC, Part 2: Part 2 of 2 on the Battle of Gaugamela, 331 BC. In 334 BC Alexander the Great's Greek/Macedonian army of conquest marched into Asia. Here I tell the story of the campaign, and Alexander's plans to forge a new Greco-Persian culture For inform...

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Aristotle's Biology: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.

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03.1 The Battle of Gaugamela 331 BC, Part 1: Part 1 of 2 on the Battle of Gaugamela, 331 BC. Describes the build up to the invasion of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great, with an army of Greeks and Macedonians For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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1908 Phocion’s Sword: Prussian Militarism, and Navalism: When Alexander the Great requested ships from an unwilling Athens, the Senate asked the incorruptible Phocion for his opinion. He responded that "you should either have the sharpest sword, or keep upon good terms with those who have". In the Pact of...

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Episode #011 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 2 - The Early Stoa and the Cynics: This is the first of two episodes on Stoicism; in this episode, we learn about stoic physics and logic. We learn how the Stoics would likely react if faced with a zombie apocalypse and how a shipwreck caused a guy named Zeno to start dabbling in...

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034 - Siege Warfare: The History and Mechanics of how Sieges work and why they happen.

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Chapter Forty Two: The Greatest Commander of Them All: Alexander the Great.  A man who really lives up to his billing... even if he's a bit crazy too!