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Episode 30: Two Legs in the Afternoon (Sophocles' Oedipus the King)

Literature and History

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The Golden Age of Athens in the Four Twenties

We're going to be zipping all over the 400s BCE. Today, we'll focus on the four twenties. The Greco Persian wars took place from about 499 until 479. Athens' silver mines caused the city to become fantastically rich.

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