If this were a movie, the events and cameos would be too numerous and star-studded to mention. It includes Xerxes, Spartans, Immortals, Alexander the Great, scythed chariots, and several of the greatest battles in history.
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I am a notoriously bad topic picker and I traditionally pick something that I think I can do much more quickly than I can, and then when I get into the middle of it, I feel compelled to do the topic justice and we end up traditionally with a very long series of shows.
Well, what you're about to hear is the equivalent of like a double album by a music band or something.
We are essentially giving you parts three and four of what probably should have been, realistically speaking, a four part series on the achaemenid persian empire with an obvious focus on their wars with the Greeks and the Macedonians.
If you missed parts one and two, you probably want to catch those before you catch this one.
But theres so much military history in this one because I knew id be crucified if we didnt go into loving detail about what amounts to several of the best battles in ancient military history.
So we do that and we give you what is probably twice the length of what a good hardcore history show should be.
So savor it, let it last, and hopefully it doesn't become like one of those double albums I grew up with where you listen to it and you think, God, they could have cut half that thing and just put out one really good single album.
The way I look at it though, this is one of the great topics in all world history.
And if anything, it probably merited more attention than I gave it.
But as I told you, I'm a terrible topic picker and I'm always trying to recover after I make my poor choice.
So without further ado, part three and really part four.
Also the final installment of our series on the great kings of the ancient achaemenid persian empire.
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