Episode 32 – Things Fixed, Things Moving
The Ancient World - A podcast by Scott C.
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“Black is your path, Agni, changeless, with glittering waves! When like a bull you rush eager to the trees. With teeth of flame, wind-driven, through the wood he speeds, triumphant like a bull among the herd of cows, With bright strength roaming to the everlasting air: things fixed, things moving quake before him as he flies.”- Rigvedas, Book 1, Hymn LVIII Darius retraced Cyrus’s footsteps to expand Persian control of Vedic India. Hipparchus met a bloody end at the hands of a jealous rival. Tarquin kept Rome’s military and infrastructure sound while alienating both rich and poor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
