Episode 57: History’s Greatest Escape

Plutarch, The Bravery of Women. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Bravery_of_Women*/A.html 

CMH Millar (1958) Some Escapes and Escapers in the Ancient World. Greece and Rome, 5(1), 57-61.

The Escape of King Charles II http://www.thefugitiveking.uk/ 

Nova, History’s Great Escapes https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/history-great-escapes/

Mary Queen of Scots’s Great Escape https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/mary-queen-of-scots-great-escape/

The Escape from Alcatraz https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/alcatraz-escape

Bucky Philips’ Escape https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/nyregion/07bucky.html

Search Goes On for Prisoner who Escaped with Sheets: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/07/nyregion/search-goes-on-for-prisoner-who-used-sheets-to-escape.html


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