History you can sing along to

Each song tells one part of a story in about three minutes, with its facts checked against the sources. Every song belongs to a chapter or question, where the full story and its sources sit beside it.

♪ SongThe Hot GatesEpic orchestral battle anthemXerxes’ army against the narrow road: the three days at Thermopylae, told as a battle anthem.Read chapter 6

Coming soon♪ SongHot Gates (Thermo-Pylae)

Upbeat pop-rockWhy the pass is called the Hot Gates: two Greek words, a fault line and hot springs.Read the question

Coming soon♪ SongSeventy out of seven hundred

Upbeat pop-rockArgos, Gelon, Corcyra, Crete and Thessaly: who stayed away when Xerxes came, and why.Read chapter 5

Coming soon♪ SongLeonidas avenged

Upbeat pop-rockAfter the pass fell: Athens evacuated, the sea battle at Salamis and the march to Plataea.Chapter 7: coming soon