{"podcast":{"title":"Fan of History","slug":"fan-of-history-741603","podcast_index_feed_id":741603,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/c3b15c03-91fd-4759-a510-22929c8e3a5a","website_url":"https://play.acast.com/s/history","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/611a64ef06c05ec09bf4066a/1723474960667-2d7c0cc5-4260-4b19-95b5-1e965ecd9ec4.jpeg","author":"Dan Hörning & Bernie Maopolski","episode_count":233,"summary":"Dan Horning and Bernie Maopolski discuss the events of ancient history all over the world, decade by decade, starting at 1000 BC and moving forward. We love history! History, History, History! That’s all we think of … History in the morning, History for lunch, History for dinner… even history right before bed! And we talk about all the key people in Ancient History – Julius Caesar, Gilgamesh, Jesus, Budha, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Solon, Pythagoras, Alexander the Great, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Herodotus, Homer, Ashurnasirpal, Sennacherib, Ashurbanipal, Croesus, Cyrus the Great, and Pisistratus. And the Great Historical Civilizations in History like the Assyrian Empire, Israel, Judah, Babylonia, Egypt, Ancient Greece, Roman Republic and Roman Empire, The Zhou of China, India, and the historical civilizations of the Americas like The Olmecs, Maya, and Chauvin. We have another show on this same feed - What’s New In History - that spans all the eras of history. On What’s New in History we talk about AI, DNA studies, archeology, and characters of history like Christopher Columbus, Napoleon, Adolf Hitler, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, C…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T10:18:55.364672+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fan-of-history-741603"},"episode":{"title":"239. 490s BC These ships were the beginning of troubles for Greeks and Barbarians","slug":"239-490s-bc-these-ships-were-the-beginning-of-troubles-for-greeks-and-barbarians","published_at":"2026-06-10T08:35:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fan-of-history-741603/239-490s-bc-these-ships-were-the-beginning-of-troubles-for-greeks-and-barbarians","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fan-of-history-741603","url":"https://shows.acast.com/history/episodes/239-490s-bc-these-ships-were-the-beginning-of-troubles-for-g","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/history/e/6a2921bf6642088a10fd4fc9/media.mp3","summary":"Aristagoras leaves Sparta empty-handed but finds a more receptive audience in Athens. Can Athens help \"Make the World Safe for Democracy\" in the 490s BC?? In this episode, Bernie and Dan follow the Ionian Revolt from the Athenian embassy and the dispatch of the famous twenty ships to the....  What happens next you'll need to listen! Along the way, we discuss Athens' curious mission of spreading democracy, the cult of Cybele and her self-castrating priests, and how an intervention would set Greeks and Persians on a collision course for generations. The story is really heating up! This is a podcast by Dan Hörning and Bernie Maopolski. Contact information: E-mail: zimwaupodcast@gmail.com http://facebook.com/fanofhistory https://twitter.com/danhorning https://www.instagram.com/dan_horning/ Music: “Tudor Theme” by urmymuse. Used here under a commercial Creative Commons license. Find out more at http://ccmixter.org/files/urmymuse/40020 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Aristagoras leaves Sparta empty-handed but finds a more receptive audience in Athens. Can Athens help \"Make the World Safe for Democracy\" in the 490s BC??…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2849,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fan-of-history-741603/episodes/239-490s-bc-these-ships-were-the-beginning-of-troubles-for-greeks-and-barbarians/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fan-of-history-741603/239-490s-bc-these-ships-were-the-beginning-of-troubles-for-greeks-and-barbarians.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}