Dan’s research and book list:
Good News Bible: Today’s English Version
Holy Bible: King James Version, 1611 Edition
The Histories (Everyman’s Library)
Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia
A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC, 2nd Edition
Cyrus the Great: An Ancient Iranian King
The Persian Empire
The Persian Empire From Cyrus II to Artaxerxes I
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The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire
The Story of Mankind
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Hoplites
From Sumer to Rome: The Military Capabilities of Ancient Armies (Contributions in Military Studies)
Our Oriental Heritage Part 1
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Diodorus Siculus I: The Historical Library in Forty Books
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The Cyrus Cylinder: The King of Persia’s Proclamation from Ancient Babylon
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The Ancient Assyrians (Elite, 39)
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
Babylon (Ancient Peoples and Places)
Armies of the Ancient Near East, 3,000 Bc to 539 Bc
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The Histories
Ancient Iraq: Third Edition (Penguin History)
Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World (1)
A History of the Ancient World
The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics)
The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
The Greco-Persian Wars
The Defence of Greece (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
Barbarians of Asia: The People of the Steppes from 1600 B C (Dorset Press Reprints)
The Geography of Strabo: An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes
The Ancient Historians
Persians (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
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History of the Persian Empire
The Campaigns of Alexander (Penguin Classics)
Education of Cyrus (Everyman’s Library)
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Natasha –
This was the second series, after the Blueprint. Ancient history was a challenging topic for me, but Dan brings it to life in such vivid colours. Captivating from the first minutes, this work is unmatched in learning about the “black and white” world where the historical records barely existed. Thank you!
artista_co –
This wa sthe first HH podcast I ever heard. Fleshing out all of the ‘-ites’ of history is fantastic. The comparisons and insights of Dan are eye-opening. I especially liked the modern examples of the “statue of liberty in the sand” an dthe emotional impact that those events must have had on the people in the ancient past. The descriptions of encountering the walls by Xenophon actually had me wanting to be next to him and staing in awe and wonder. The description of the time lapse helped frame dusty dates. Thank you SO much for this. I wi be re-listening to this, and I am sure the others, over and over again. 2 thumbs, and 2 toes up!!!!