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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

EP9 Glimpses of Olympias

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

Dan Carlin

Classical, Discussion, Rome, Ancient, Military, History, Archival, War, Modern

4.88.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 212 minutes

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Description:Philip II of Macedonia and his son Alexander the Great are two of the most impressive figures in history. Few could contend with either man. One woman held her own with both of them. Alexander's mother Olympias. Notes:

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0:00.0

It's hardcore history.

0:04.9

I keep reading in all of the entertainment stories, how desperate the entertainment industry

0:15.4

is for new ideas and new concepts and subject matter and all this stuff.

0:19.4

And I read one the other day that says, this is the reason why you keep seeing like teenage

0:23.7

mutant Ninja Turtles 47 and every cartoon you grew up with as a kid made into a live

0:28.4

action movie.

0:29.4

I mean, they're just desperate for, you know, they need ideas.

0:34.0

And I can't believe that.

0:35.2

I refuse to believe it because the ideas are hiding in plain sight, so I don't get it.

0:39.2

I don't get why the stories that are right there aren't just snapped up and used.

0:43.4

I mean, they're sitting there like diamonds on the beach.

0:49.4

And because human history is so vast, right?

0:51.9

Not just in terms of geography, but also, you know, eras, that there are so many stories

0:56.4

that whatever you're particularly trying to, well, let's just take a movie, for example,

1:00.8

but it could be anything, whatever you're trying to make a movie out of, I mean, there's

1:04.4

the right diamond on the beach for you, and maybe multiples.

1:08.4

I was thinking the other day, everybody wants to make a strong female protagonist sort

1:16.0

of film right now from a female, I mean, it would be the perfect idea, right?

1:21.4

The perfect time period right now to do the definitive movie.

1:24.9

How about the only movie on what I think and remember my knowledge is the opposite of

1:30.4

vast and deep, but from my limited perspective, this is the most interesting.

1:36.8

I don't even know the adjectives elude me, woman in the entire ancient period of, you know,

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