Come for Julius Caesar, but stay for Prehistoric Tibet.
That’s the promise Tristan Hughes has been keeping twice a week, every week, since launching The Ancients podcast from History Hit. Across more than 600 episodes, The Ancients remains endlessly curious in unveiling extraordinary stories of the past—and now, for the very first time outside the UK, the podcast takes to the stage.
Every great civilisation needs a good origin story: Rome’s is extraordinary, thrilling, and deeply strange. Twin brothers, offspring of a Vestal Virgin and a god, abandoned on the banks of a river, saved and suckled by a she-wolf. Together they founded a city built on brotherly rivalry, and murder. A city ruled by a king who disappeared into the sky.
Join Tristan live on-stage in Canberra & Auckland with Jeremy Armstrong, Professor of Ancient History, to trace the legend of Romulus and Remus from its ancient roots to its lasting impact on what it means to be ‘Roman’.
The most popular mythical hero of all: Heracles, aka Hercules. Same hero, same impossible story. A man of supernatural strength subjected to catastrophic suffering by the gods and condemned to twelve labours that no mortal man should survive. A story that has never faded, being reimagined from classical literature to Hollywood and Disney to The Ancients.
Tristan will be joined live on-stage in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth & Melbourne by Alastair Blanshard, Professor of Classics and Ancient History, to explore the reality behind the myths by uncovering kernels of historical truth beneath the legends.
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