July 7, 2017
Antigonus and Demetrius attack Ptolemy in Egypt with 80,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry and 83 elephants marching by land from Syria, while 150 warships with another 40,000 […]
June 17, 2017
Enough is never enough. If you sit still, your competition may sneak up on you and take you out. Any resource you don’t own, is one […]
June 9, 2017
Around 305 BCE, 18 years after Alexander’s death, there is suddenly a “big bang” of new kings, lead by Antigonus. Can you guess why they all […]
June 2, 2017
Gonad called Demi back from Athens because he wanted to help him take Cyprus from Tolly whose possession of Cyprus was a major obstacle to Gonad’s […]
May 20, 2017
Our episode today is all about Demetrius of Phalerum, chosen by Ptolemy to help him build his masterpiece – the Great Library and Museum of Alexandria. […]
May 11, 2017
Antigonus sends Demetrius to attack Athens, evicting Cassander's tyrant who controlled the city for the previous decade, Demetrius of Phalerum, who has a much bigger project […]
May 5, 2017
And then, in 310 or 309, Cassy had Alexander IV and his mother Roxane poisoned and the 400 year old royal bloodline of Philip and Alexander […]
April 20, 2017
OUR 100th EPISODE! Antigonus, Ptolemy, Lysimachus and Cassander agree to a truce, which frees Antigonus up to kick Selly out of Babylon. Or so he thinks. […]
April 14, 2017
In 311, while Antigonus was distracted with Ptolemy in Syria, Seleucus borrowed 1000 men from Ptolemy and marched back to his old satrapy, Babylon with the […]