Where should I start?
My goal with this show is to make each episode approachable for a first time listener, but certain episodes are better starting points than other, also some people are more interested in myth and some are more interested in straight history, so I am dividing up the podcast archive into sections for your convenience.
If I get lazy and stop updating this page, it should all be available at the show home on anchor.fm
Update: Turns out I get lazy more often than not, but I will update in batches when I get around to it.
History of Sumer and Akkad
OS2.5 – Before the Beginning
OS15 – Kings and Wars in Lagash
OS16 – Reform and Corruption in Lagash
OS17 – Sargon Rising
OS18 – Sargon at peace
OS19 – Sargon at war
OS20 – Sargon, the Next Generation
OS21 – Surpassing Sargon with Naram-Sin
OS22 – Slanderous Legends of Naram-Sin
OS23 – The Fall of Akkad
OS10 – King Shulgi’s Mailbag
OS24 – The Rebirth of Sumer
OS25 – The Last Sumerian Ibbi-Sin
Old Babylonian History
OS32 – Lay of the Land
OS33 – A Time of Ritual and Law
OS34 – Age of Chaos
OS35 – Middle Bronze Age Warfare
OS36 – The Founding of Babylon
OS37 – Petty Kings
OS38 – Rim-Sin the Pretty Good
OS39 – The Merchants and Families of Assyria
OS40 – Barbarian Kingdoms and Biblical Patriarchs
OS41 – Shamshi-Adad and the Upper Mesopotamian Empire
OS42 – Hammurabi’s Kingdom and Character
OS43 – Hammurabi’s Siegecraft and Diplomacy
OS44 – Hammurabi’s Military and Elamite War
OS45 – Hammurabi’s Medicine and Justice
OS46 – Hammurabi’s Northern Conquests and Agricultural Power
OS47 – Hammurabi’s Rebels and Oracles
OS48 – Hammurabi’s Women and Slaves
OS49 – Hammurabi’s Death and Legacy
OS51 – The New Order
OS54 – Soldier of Babylon, Ubarum
OS55 – Days of Quiet Prosperity
OS56 – Obscure Struggles in Assyria
Late Bronze Age History
OS57 – Ancient Anatolia
OS58 – Rise of the Hittites
OS59 – The Conquering Lion, Hattusili I
OS61 – The Conqueror’s Triumph and Death
OS62 – The Man Who Changed The World, Mursili I
OS63 – Village People
OS64 – Village Economics
OS65 – Disorder in the Court
OS66 – Entering the Arena
OS67 – Late Bronze Age Warfare
Mesopotamian Myth
OS1 – Enmerkar and Aratta
OS2 – Lugalbanda
OS3 – Gilgamesh and Enkidu
OS4 – Gilgamesh and Humbaba
OS5 – Gilgamesh has Adventures
OS6 – Gilgamesh and the bull of heaven
OS7 – Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim, and Immortality
OS8 – Ishtar Gains Power
OS9 – Ishtar and Dumazid
OS12 – Enlil Lord of Wind
OS13 – The God of Action Heroes Ninurta
OS14 – Ea, Tales from Creation
OS29 – The Enuma Elish
OS30 – The Tablet of Destinies
OS31 – First Men
OS52 – Theogony of Dunnu and The Education of Scribes
Hittite and Hurrian Myth
Bonus 1 – The Slaying of Illuyanka
OS60 – Telipinu, the Vanishing God
Wisdom Literature
OS11 – Instructions Manual
OS26 – The Oldest Debates
OS50 – Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
OS53 – Poem of the Righteous Sufferer
Miscellanious Episodes
OS27 – The Study of Sumer and Ancient Aliens
OS28 – The Chamorros of Saipan
Bonus 2 – Fanciful Notions of Antiquity
Bonus 3 – Lament for Ur
