by CJR | Jan 6, 2017 | Premium Podcasts
Eumenes joins up with the eastern satraps, Peucestas and the Silver Shields, which forces Antigonus to join forces with Seleucus and Peithon. And then they go at each other. HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the show below or...
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'....
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...
