by CJR | Oct 28, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
Eumenes is now all alone. His enemies are trying to bribe his commanders to desert him, so he gives them permission to plunder Antigonus' satrapy and keep the proceeds. Meanwhile Cassander tries to create tension between Antipater and Antigonus. Antipater meets...
by CJR | Oct 21, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
We talk about lost sources of the events after Alexander, the garbage dumps of Oxyrhynchus, the Villa of the Papyri, Vatican palimpsests and multi-spectral imaging. Eumenes, the Greek private secretary who became the most successful general of the first War of the...
by CJR | Oct 14, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
In the late summer of 320, the anti-Perdiccan camp held a conference at a place called Triparadeisus in Syria or Lebanon. Triparadeisus means ‘triple paradise'. Which is also a nasty sex act, but don't get us started on that. And a sixteen year old girl...
by CJR | Sep 28, 2016 | Podcasts, Premium Podcasts
James Romm is an author, reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, NY. After getting his B.A. in Classics from Yale, he went on to earn a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1988. He has taught Greek language, literature and...
by CJR | Sep 23, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
Perdiccas launches his invasion of Egypt to punish Ptolemy for the theft of Alexander's corpse. HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the show below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player. If you're not a subscriber,...
