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Ancient Greece

17 stories

Philosophy, democracy, war, and tragedy. The blueprint for everything we still argue about today.

A prince steals another king's wife, so Greece spends ten years besieging Troy over it. Ends with a giant wooden horse and a massacre.

The Trojan Horse

Greeks pretend to give up, leave a giant wooden horse outside the gates, and the Trojans wheel it inside themselves. The original phishing attack.

Achilles and Hector

Greece's greatest warrior vs Troy's greatest prince. One has plot armor everywhere except his heel. You can guess how this ends.

Odysseus Goes Home

After ten years of war he tries to sail home. It takes another ten years, involves a Cyclops, a witch, and the dead. The original hero's journey.

Sparta Builds Its War Machine

A whole society where boys are taken from their mothers at 7 to be turned into killing machines. Spoiler: it works extremely well.

Draco Writes the Laws

An Athenian writes laws so harsh that almost every crime is punishable by death. We still call brutal rules 'draconian' because of him.

The Battle of Marathon

Outnumbered Athenians charge a much bigger Persian army and somehow win. A guy runs 26 miles to deliver the news, then drops dead.

The 300 at Thermopylae

King Leonidas and 300 Spartans hold a mountain pass against an entire Persian empire. They lose the battle but win the legend.

The Battle of Salamis

Greek triremes lure the Persian fleet into a narrow strait and obliterate them. Xerxes watches from a throne on a hill, horrified.

Pericles' Golden Age

Athens enters its glow-up era: democracy, the Parthenon, theatre, philosophy. Then a plague kills a third of the city, including Pericles.

The Peloponnesian War

27 years of Athens vs Sparta. Plagues, betrayals, exile, and one of the most disastrous military expeditions in history. Athens loses everything.

Socrates Drinks the Hemlock

An old man asks too many questions in public. Athens votes to make him drink poison. He calmly does it while his students cry.

Plato Founds the Academy

The world's first university opens in an olive grove outside Athens. Lasts 900 years, invents most of Western philosophy.

Alexander the Great

By age 32 he's conquered most of the known world and reportedly cried because there was nothing left to conquer.

Alexander Cuts the Gordian Knot

Legend says whoever unties an impossible knot will rule Asia. Alexander pulls out his sword and cuts it in half. Cheating? Or genius?

The Death of Alexander

He drops dead at 32 in Babylon. His generals immediately rip the empire to shreds fighting over the corpse.

Archimedes Yells Eureka

A Greek genius figures out displacement in the bath, runs naked through the streets shouting about it. Later dies because he's too busy doing math to notice the Romans invading.

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History Tea covers 17 stories from Ancient Greece, including The Trojan War, The Trojan Horse, Achilles and Hector, Odysseus Goes Home and 13 more. Each one is retold as immersive audio narration.

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Philosophy, democracy, war, and tragedy. The blueprint for everything we still argue about today. History Tea retells each Ancient Greece story as modern, immersive audio you can listen to anywhere.

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