From Here to History
The history podcast where Chris Swanson and Jason Weidert discuss events and people of the past with as much openness, understanding, and fairness as we can muster. Our only agenda is to inform in an entertaining and engaging way.
We teach high school, after all, and that's a tough audience. Our hope is that if we can keep teenagers interested we may be able to pull off a worthwhile podcast, too.
We try to release one episode every month. But we're teachers with busy young families so if we go a little longer than that between episodes, bear with us!
From Here to History
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Pt 1
DISCLAIMER! If you're listening to this episode, first, thank you! But second, this is an early episode. It was recorded and edited when we really didn't know what we were doing and our sound quality was very lacking. We've gotten a lot better at both since then so, please, bear with us! We're so glad to have you along.
The Seven wonders of the Ancient World. These were the artistic and architectural achievements of the ancient Mediterranean world that travelers found most impressive and alluring. Some stood for decades, others for centuries, and a few for millennia. Today, only one of the seven still stands. For the other six, we have to lace together imagination, descriptions from ancient writers, and the finds of modern archaeologists to get a picture of what once existed. In this series we are taking a field trip around that world to discuss and imagine the monuments on this storied list.
In part 1, we briefly overview the seven and how the memory of them came down to us through the centuries. Then we turn our attention to the grandest and most enduring of them all: The Great Pyramid at Giza.
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Music credit: Ancient Mystery Waltz by Kevin Macleod