by CJR | Dec 21, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
Cassander is now de facto regent. But Polyperchon is still alive. * So is Antigonus – his ally for the moment – and Eumenes, who is trapped by Antigonus beyond the Taurus mountains. And Lysimachus and Seleucus and Ptolemy. So it isn’t over yet. Not by a...
by CJR | Dec 16, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
Olympias is the mistress of Macedon! But not for long. Cassander finally heads back home and confronts her. Is this how it ends for the mother of Alexander? HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the show below or subscribe through iTunes...
by CJR | Dec 9, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
When the Athenians learn that Poly won’t be coming to save them, they surrendered to Cassander. Late in 317, Poly was in Epirus with Alexander IV. He was arranging for Olympias to return to Macedon, which she had finally agreed to do. She ends up leading an army...
by CJR | Dec 2, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
Phocion and what’s left of his party are shipped to Athens by the White Clit where they are put on trial. Then Poly and Cassy fight over Athens. HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the show below or subscribe through iTunes or any...
by CJR | Nov 25, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
It’s now looking very likely that Greece is going to become a theater of war between Cassander and Poly. Poly’s letter has pulled the rug out from underneath the most honourable man in Athens – Phocion. He’s 84 and as we’ve seen in earlier episodes, he only...
by CJR | Nov 18, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
We spend more time talking about the regular propaganda that various successors and kings would come out with over the years regarding Greek freedom and get into a discussion about the illusions we still have today about freedom – ours and other peoples'....
