If you’ve enjoyed our longer form Greek Series to support you with the Ancient History A Level syllabus (or if you’re just interested in ancient history!), you can also find bitesize versions of the full series to support your revision of key topics.

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Episodes 1-6 cover Interpretation question 1 (Why did the Greeks win the Persian Wars?) – including discussions on Sources; Earlier Invasions; Xerxes’ Aims; The Numbers involved; Tactics & Leadership; Supply Lines and Luck.

Episodes 7-12 cover Interpretation question 2 (What were the causes of the Peloponnesian War?) – including the history of the debate, the first war, the thirty year peace, the Samian revolt, the Megarian decree and more!

Episodes 13-17 cover Interpretation question 3 (Why did the Athenians lose the Peloponnesian War?) – including the peace of Nicias, the Sicilian expedition, and battles at Notion, Arginusae and Aegospotami.

Episodes 18-20 cover Attic Inscriptions, Episodes 21-25 Plutarch, and 28-34 Aristophanes.

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Virgil’s Aeneid – Ep 13...

December 17, 2025

Our final episode is a special one with Oxford don and Virgil super expert, Prof. Llewelyn Morgan of Brasenose College, Oxford. Find out what he thinks about our traitor theories and Aeneas’ character...

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Virgil’s Aeneid Ep 12 –...

December 14, 2025

This penultimate episode has a summary of the series to date and then jumps into Book 3 as Katrina explains why ‘The Wanderings’ is a bit of a misnomer, and Caroline takes us...

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Virgil’s Aeneid – Ep 11...

December 14, 2025

Virgil’s Purple Prose? No, definitely not, but the Aeneid is replete with interesting uses of the word ‘purpureus’ and in this episode we look at purple as a colour of beauty, death, danger...

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