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Re:Parthia: Rome's Ablest Competitor by namdnay on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:53AM (#21145927)
Obligatory plug of the excellent "The History of Rome" podcast
Re:Parthia: Rome's Ablest Competitor by smogcutter on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:56PM (#21150687)
Love Mike Duncan! I’m going through his “Revolutions” podcast now and it’s terrific. Also worth mentioning Dan Carlin’s podcast about the Achaemenids, obviously about an earlier period of Iranian history than tfa but very good stuff. He covers a great deal more than the Greek wars, and in the west it’s a story we don’t usually hear told from the “other side”.

Fwiw though I’ll take generally Mike Duncan over Carlin - Carlin’s a world class storyteller but imo he gets too caught up in hypotheticals and war stories. Duncan doesn’t have the quite the same “favorite professor” delivery but he covers things from more angles.