Empires burned, philosophers questioned everything, and volcanoes buried entire cities. These episodes dig into the disasters, thinkers, and fiery figures of the ancient world. Ep 2 - Part 2: Nero: The Fiddling Tyrant Ep 12 - Part 2: Ancient Sport Rivalries - The Nika Riots Ep 38: Volcanoes Pt 1 - Mt. Toba's Echo: Journey into Earth's Cataclysmic Past Ep 42: Volcanoes Pt 2 - Time Capsule of Tragedy: Exploring Pompeii's Frozen History Ep 62: Mother of the Antichrist - Nero's mum, Agrippina the Younger Ep 101 - The Immortal Persian King: Cyrus The Great Ep 105 - Examining the Great Thinker: Socrates Ep 114 - The Olympics Pt 1 - Ancient Origins to Parisian Potties Ep 122 - Fire & Brimstone: Nostradamus Ep 207: Hey Ladies!!! - Sappho Ep 216: Ancient Incendiaries - Greek Fire
Ep 2 - Part 2: Nero: The Fiddling Tyrant
Ep 12 - Part 2: Ancient Sport Rivalries - The Nika Riots
Ep 38: Volcanoes Pt 1 - Mt. Toba's Echo: Journey into Earth's Cataclysmic Past
Ep 42: Volcanoes Pt 2 - Time Capsule of Tragedy: Exploring Pompeii's Frozen History
Ep 62: Mother of the Antichrist - Nero's mum, Agrippina the Younger
Ep 101 - The Immortal Persian King: Cyrus The Great
Ep 105 - Examining the Great Thinker: Socrates
Ep 114 - The Olympics Pt 1 - Ancient Origins to Parisian Potties
Ep 122 - Fire & Brimstone: Nostradamus
Ep 207: Hey Ladies!!! - Sappho
Ep 216: Ancient Incendiaries - Greek Fire
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>> Taylor: Hello and welcome to Doomed to Fail. I'm Taylor and with my friend Fars, we bring you stories of history's greatest disasters and epic failures. And really just interesting stories that can help us learn a little bit more about our past. So we've been doing this for about two and a half years, which is crazy. We have over 200 episodes and we're having a really good time. And I wanted to give you, if you're a new listener or haven't listened to everything, a little bit of a frame around the stories that we're telling. So today I'm gonna tell you about some of our ancient history episodes that you can listen to now and then also you'll see some overlap because some of these stories, you know, I've tagged them more than once cause they tell different kind of stories depending on the frame.
So we're talking ancient history. I'm going to go in the episode order
So we're talking ancient history. I'm going to start with and I'm gonna go in the episode order. So episode two, all the way to the beginning. Episode two, Part two was about Emperor Nero, the fiddling tyrant who did not fiddle while Rome burned because he was on vacation. But he did try to help. He also did try to send people to Mount Vesuvius, when, to Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted. We'll talk about that later. Episode 12, Part 2 is on the Nika riots, which are also put into medieval history. It kind of just cusps that that timeline. So it could be either. But it is a Rio, a sports arena in Constantinople and a lot of people died. Episode 38, two episodes in this ancient history list are from my volcano series. So I did a seven part series on volcanoes. We learned so much. Episode 38 is Volcanoes Part One. Mount Toba erupted about 70,000 years ago. And we're all from the people who survived that because it kind of knocked us down to a couple thousand humans. Episode 42 is about Pompeii and when Mount Vesuvius erupted and what that looks like, how he learned about it. Did you know that Napoleon's sister Josephine, he made her Empress of Italy or whatever and that she's one of the people who started the excavation of Pompeii? So super interesting, learn about that there. Episode 62. Talk about Nero's mom, Agrippina, a little bit about her and how she became the mother of such a, such a violent man. I call Nero the Antichrist because there's people who, you know, for whatever the stories are, if the Antichrist comes back, he'll look, look like Nero. Episode 101 is about Cyrus the Great. So a little bit of Persian history. We'll talk about how he went into Babylon and was able to conquer by taking a river and pulling all the water out of the river and then walking into it. Super cool. Episode 105 on Socrates. It's about his life and the things that he knew. Episode 144 is the beginning of my Olympic series. So last summer of 2024 were the Olympics and I did a big series on different stories. I would start with Ancient Olympics. Episode 122 was on Nostradamus. He's on like the. Also kind of on the end of ancient history. But no, maybe he's not in ancient history. Maybe I'll take that out. No, I think he is. I'm gonna leave him. Learn more about Nostradamus. Put him in here. And then episode 207 is about Sappho, the ancient Greek poet who is the. A lot of queer poetry. She's also. I would also tag her in like our Pride collection. And then finally, just a very recent episode. Very recent. Episode 216 is on Greek fire, an ancient weapon that is still kind of mysterious. So follow us. Go back, listen to those episodes. Links will be in the show notes. Thank you so much for listening.