Hello and welcome back! Apologies for the long delay in shows - especially on a show we’re so many of you have been generous enough to show us your support with a financial donation! We’re going to make it up to you over the coming weeks. For those of you that don’t listen to the Napoleon show, I explain the reasons for our long delay at the beginning of this show. It includes TPN’s servers getting attacked by a trojan virus.
Speaking of a trojan… for this show we wanted to talk about a woman from ancient history. Many of you suggested HELEN OF TROY. But is she history? Or mythology?
On this show we talk about whether or not Helen is historical or mythological. We talk about The Iliad, Homer, The Trojan Wars, The Trojan Horse, Achilles, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Odysseus - welcome to the dawn of the HEROIC AGE - 800 BCE.
Did I mention Achilles? It turns out, we have AN ACTUAL PHOTO OF ACHILLES SCALING THE WALLS OF TROY —–>
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Despite what many people believe, the idea of a set of laws to fairly govern a society wasn’t invented by Moses. Laws had been present in middle eastern kingdoms for almost 1000 years before Moses. One of the earliest, most famous and best preserved are the laws of King Hammurabi of Babylon, called The Code Of Hammurabi (1760BCE). The laws were inscribed on a massive column and placed in the middle of the town square across his kingdom for everyone to read.
(Above: A marble bas relief of Hammurabi which resides in the US House Of Representatives.)
While we don’t know the exact reach of the Babylonian empire during Hammurabi’s reign, we do know that it covered much of modern Iraq and Syria. This map shows the Kingdom of Babylonia as it relates to modern Iraq (link).
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Welcome to the first episode of The Biography Show on TPN!
You hosts are historian and author J. David Markham and Cameron Reilly. Read more about us here.
This first episode is about Alexander III of Macedon, better known to most of us as Alexander “The Great” and great he certainly was. He was a military and political genius who conquered most of the known world from the age of 20 until his premature death at 33. His mother was a princess/witch, his father was a great King in his own right, and his mentor was the great Aristotle. His legacy was the dissemination of Greek language, science and philosophy across the known world, paving the way for the Roman empire.
Alexander’s Empire
David has uploaded images of some Alexander-related objects from his private collection to our Flickr group.
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If you would like to learn more about Alexander, we can recommend this book by Peter Green.
As David is now retired from teaching, I would love to be able to pay him a modest salary for his invaluable contribution to these shows. As those of you who have listened to our Napoleon podcast know, David is a wonderful teacher of history and he puts a huge amount of time and energy into preparing these shows. If you feel inclined to support this, please consider paying a voluntary subscription fee for the Biography podcast by clicking on one of the below buttons. You have a choice of subscribing for $1.00 per month or you can make a lump-sum payment of either $20 or $50.
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