Greeced Lightning

Age of Empires 2: Part 3: The Peloponnesian War

It’s the end of Season 3, and the end of Sara and Sam’s journey through Age of Empires 2. Your hosts speculate about the future of civilization in 2025 while discussing the Peloponnesian War: optimistic peace agreements, ancient plague, a literal bag of dicks, video games as art, and a look back on our highlights of the season. * Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng3]

Age of Empires 2: Part 2: The Persian War

We continue our Age of Empires 2 campaign with the Persian Wars! Join Sara and Sam for ostracism procedures, wily old Themistocles, and Sara’s waning tolerance for podcasting while pregnant. * Map of the Greco-Persian Wars [https://www.worldhistory.org/image/69/greco-persian-wars/] * Herodotus' Histories [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Herodotus/home.html] - Books 6-9 cover the Persian Wars.

Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings: Definitive Edition: Chronicles: Battle for Greece: Part 1: The Ionian Rebellion

Back in the Greeced Lightning Game Room, your hosts tackle Part 1 of the Chronicles: Battle for Greece in Age of Empires 2. Join us to discuss Europeans stealing historical treasures, ancient tyrants, and the Ionian revolt. * Herodotus' Histories [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Herodotus/home.html] - The first several books cover Persian history; coverage of the Ionian Revolt starts in Book 5.

Troy: Fall of a City - The Trojan War

We’re going back to our Greeced Lightning roots and revisiting the Trojan War! Join us for the 2018 series Troy: Fall of a City for the correct usage of chariots, birth plans, Bjӧrk-ified Helen, and distracting bowl cuts. * Minoan 'Ladies in Blue' Fresco [https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10671/minoan-ladies-in-blue-fresco/] * The Iliad [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-homer/17147944?ean=9781324076148&next=t&next=t] - Emily Wilson's new translation

Total War: Rome 2 - The Battle of Pydna

It’s Macedonian War time in the Greeced Lightning Game Room! Join Sara and Sam to discuss the Battle of Pydna, layoffs and unions, war elephants, and Total War: Rome II. * Plutarch, Life of Aemilius [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Aemilius*.html] - Sections 12ff. cover the Macedonian campaign * Livy, Ab urbe condita 45.19 [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0149%3Abook%3D45%3Achapter%3D19] - Livy's later account of the Macedonian War * Polybius, Histories 22.8 [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234%3Abook%3D22%3Achapter%3D8] - On the origin of the Third Macedonian War, from a contemporary historian