by CJR | Nov 11, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
It's now Polyperchon against Antigonus, Cassander and Eumenes. Polyperchon tries to get Olympias to come back to Macedon. He also offers Eumenes the position of Royal General of Asia – Antigonus’ title. Cassander manages to take Piraeus, the port of Athens....
by CJR | Nov 4, 2016 | Premium Podcasts
By the time Antipater got back to Macedon, he was 80 years old, with only a few months to live. When he died, in the late summer of 319, it threw everything once more into chaos. On his deathbed, he passed his title “to Polyperchon”. And thus started the Second War of...
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...
