http://biography.thepodcastnetwork.com From the famous to the infamous, the stories that are their stories. Tue, 13 May 2008 20:22:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great was an Akkadian king who conquered the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BCE. Born in secret to a high priestess who placed the baby in a basket of rushes into the river Euphrates, Sargon was found and raised ... http://biography.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/14/the-biography-show-004-sargon-of-akkad/ 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 ... http://biography.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/02/the-biography-show-003-helen-of-troy/ 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 ... http://biography.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/06/the-biography-show-002-king-hammurabi-of-babylon/ 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 ... http://biography.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/02/09/the-biography-show-001-alexander-the-great/