Tides of History
Babylon, a City for the Ages: Interview with Professor Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones
March 26, 202638 min · 7,409 words
Show notes
The city of Babylon has appeared in our episodes time and again over the past several years: as the center of empires, a victim of vicious conquest, a wealthy center of economic innovation, and even the place where Alexander the Great drew his last breath. Professor Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones joins me to discuss his new, comprehensive, and fascinating new book on Babylon's long and engaging history. Patrick has a brand-new history show! It’s called Past Lives, and every episode explores the life of a real person who lived in the past.
Highlighted moments
we're not really dealing with a rise and fall scenario here. We're dealing with a rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall again.
“all of their earliest mind processes, their earliest literature, deals with this dichotomy between the inside and the out. The inside civilized place and the outside wild place.”
“we've discovered that some schoolboy sunk his teeth into them. He takes a bite out of his tablet, and then he's got his handwriting next to it as well.”
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