Past Lives

By Patrick Wyman

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Category: History

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Subscribers: 184
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 11

ThwaitesAwaites
 Jan 21, 2026
Excellent as always. Wyman is one of the podcast GOATS up there with Dan Carlin.


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Description

History is built by people like you, and Past Lives is here to bring their stories to life. Every week, we’ll focus on the lived experiences of real people in the past, from the Stone Age to the near-present. Peasants, laborers, artisans, merchants, soldiers, and the enslaved are far too often overlooked in favor of kings, generals, and politicians; not here. On Past Lives, we keep the focus where it belongs: on the real people who populate our shared past. By understanding them, we can strive to better understand ourselves. These people were us, and we are them. They mattered, and so do you.

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Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire
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 Jan 21, 2026
Abbas and the Roman Slave Trade (Parthia, Second Century AD)
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 Jan 14, 2026
Eurysaces’ Bakers and the Hell of Roman Industry
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 Jan 07, 2026
Crixus: Gladiators, the Spartacus Rebellion, and Resisting Slavery
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 Dec 31, 2025
Terence, Slavery, and Ancient Rome's First Literature
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 Dec 24, 2025
Neaira (Prostitute, Corinth and Athens, 4th Century BC)
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 Dec 17, 2025
Sosias, Silver Mining, and the Wealth of Classical Athens
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 Dec 10, 2025
Nanaya-ila’i and Her Daughter (Assyria, 7th Century BC)
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 Dec 03, 2025
On Slavery
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 Dec 03, 2025
Introducing Past Lives
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 Dec 03, 2025
Coming Soon: Past Lives
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 Nov 12, 2025