October 28, 2016
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 […]
October 21, 2016
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, […]
October 14, 2016
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 […]
September 28, 2016
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 […]
September 23, 2016
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 […]
September 16, 2016
So the first battle between the successors occurred late in May 320 in Cappadocia. It kicked off 40 years of bloodshed between Macedonians. It has no […]
September 9, 2016
Our guest today is Andrew Chugg, who has dedicated much of his life to Sherlocking the final location of Alexander's corpse and tomb. He's written several […]
September 2, 2016
Social historians agree that the Hellenistic period is when art, literature and philosophy started to examine the individual far more than before.- It’s hard to us […]
August 26, 2016
It had taken nearly TWO YEARS to prepare the casket and the catafalque for Alexander's corpse. It's one of the wonders of the world. And now it […]