Episode 122: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Literature and History
2:25:25Feb 15, 2026
Literature and History
122 episodes
Episode 121: The Umayyad Caliphate
Literature and History
2:15:00Jan 15, 2026
Episode 120: The Rashidun Caliphate
Literature and History
2:24:45Dec 15, 2025
Episode 119: The Qur'an, Part 3: Origins
Literature and History
2:19:04Oct 22, 2025
Episode 118: The Qur'an, Part 2: Ordinances
Literature and History
2:17:06Oct 15, 2025
Episode 117: The Qur'an, Part 1: Overview
Literature and History
2:06:58Oct 8, 2025
Episode 116: The Life of Muhammad, Part 3: Conquest
Literature and History
2:04:10Sep 15, 2025
Episode 115: The Life of Muhammad, Part 2: Community
Literature and History
2:15:39Aug 15, 2025
Episode 114: The Life of Muhammad, Part 1: Cobwebs
Literature and History
2:21:52Jul 15, 2025
Episode 113: Antarah ibn Shaddad
Literature and History
2:04:08Jun 15, 2025
Episode 112: Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry
Literature and History
2:19:43May 14, 2025
Episode 111: Pre-Islamic Arabia
Literature and History
2:22:19Apr 15, 2025
Episode 110: Questions
Literature and History
2:20:50Mar 22, 2025
Episode 109: Cornerstones
Literature and History
2:09:42Mar 15, 2025
Episode 108: Isidore of Seville
Literature and History
2:14:12Feb 15, 2025
Episode 107: Venantius Fortunatus
Literature and History
2:12:04Jan 15, 2025
Episode 106: Gregory of Tours, Part 2
Literature and History
2:07:57Dec 14, 2024
Episode 105: Gregory of Tours, Part 1
Literature and History
2:27:06Nov 7, 2024
Episode 104: An Introduction to the Talmud
Literature and History
2:21:51Aug 9, 2024
Episode 103: Boethius
Literature and History
2:21:10Sep 22, 2023
Episode 102: An Old Man's Book (Augustine's City of God, Part 2 of 2)
Literature and History
2:27:38Mar 4, 2023
Episode 101: Against the Pagans (Augustine's City of God, Part 1 of 2)
Literature and History
2:15:31Feb 4, 2023
Episode 100: Late Have I Loved You (Augustine's Confessions, Books 9-13)
Literature and History
2:05:20Dec 30, 2022
Episode 99: The Boy Who Stole Pears (Augustine's Confessions, Books 1-7)
Literature and History
1:55:25Dec 10, 2022
Episode 98: The Life and Works of Saint Jerome
Literature and History
2:09:43Nov 11, 2022
Episode 97: Blood and Ivy (Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Books 25-48)
Literature and History
2:32:27May 8, 2022
Episode 96: The Last Pagan Epic (Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Books 1-24)
Literature and History
2:13:58Oct 31, 2021
Episode 95: Rutilius Namatianus
Literature and History
2:02:49Oct 17, 2021
Episode 94: Ausonius
Literature and History
1:53:16Sep 12, 2021
Episode 93: Severus' Life of Saint Martin
Literature and History
1:57:50Aug 18, 2021
Episode 92: Athanasius' Life of Antony
Literature and History
2:06:20Aug 8, 2021
Episode 91: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
Literature and History
2:12:15Jul 25, 2021
Episode 90: Ante-Nicene Catholicism
Literature and History
2:04:22Jul 4, 2021
Episode 89: The Aethiopica of Heliodorus
Literature and History
2:12:29Jun 19, 2021
Episode 88: Ancient Greek Sci-fi
Literature and History
1:55:58May 21, 2021
Episode 87: Lucian of Samosata
Literature and History
1:42:06May 7, 2021
Episode 86: An Introduction to Late Antiquity
Literature and History
2:22:55Apr 25, 2021
Episode 85: River
Literature and History
1:56:26Apr 4, 2021
Episode 84: Manichaeism
Literature and History
1:58:32Mar 14, 2021
Episode 83: Gnosticism
Literature and History
2:15:35Feb 28, 2021
Episode 82: Zoroastrianism
Literature and History
2:19:26Jan 31, 2021
Episode 81: Revelation
Literature and History
2:17:59Jan 10, 2021
Episode 80: The General Epistles
Literature and History
2:03:36Oct 14, 2020
Episode 79: The Pauline Epistles
Literature and History
2:17:02Sep 25, 2020
Episode 78: The Book of Acts
Literature and History
2:15:35Sep 11, 2020
Episode 77: The Gospels
Literature and History
2:40:08Jun 30, 2020
Episode 76: Judea Under Herod
Literature and History
1:51:58Jun 7, 2020
Episode 75: Dusk and Starlight
Literature and History
2:06:24Apr 25, 2020
Episode 74: Marcus Aurelius (The Meditations)
Literature and History
1:51:06Mar 14, 2020
Episode 73: The Golden Ass (Apuleius' The Golden Ass)
Literature and History
2:34:31Feb 29, 2020