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The End of the Age of the Successors
Season 5 Episode 105
By the 280s BC, only a few of the men who had ridden the length and breadth of Asia with Alexander were still alive, and the world they had spent decades fighting to make was ready to be born: the He…
Published on 1 year ago
Being a Soldier During the Thirty Years War: Interview with Dr. Lucian Staiano-Daniels
Season 5 Episode 104
What was it like to be a soldier during the Thirty Years War? I spoke with Dr. Lucian Staiano-Daniels, author of the upcoming book The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era o…
Published on 1 year ago
The Rise of the Hellenistic World
Season 5 Episode 103
Antigonus the One-Eyed came closer than almost any other figure in the post-Alexander world to recreating the dead king's empire, but his success aroused the ire of the other Successors, and his doom…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Ancient DNA and the Iron Age Mediterranean: Interview with Dr. Hannah Moots
Season 5 Episode 102
Ancient DNA has transformed our understanding of the more distant reaches of the human past, but what can it tell us about more recent ages of history? Dr. Hannah Moots has extensively investigated t…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
The Foundation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms
Season 5 Episode 101
As the dust began to settle after Alexander's death, the possibility of one of his relatives truly ruling the dead king's empire grew smaller and smaller. The power lay with the generals, and as they…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
The Successors of Alexander the Great
Season 5 Episode 100
With mountains of treasure, huge armies, and ambitions that no amount of conquest could ever slake, Alexander's Successors spent the next 40 years after the king's death fighting over his inheritance…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
The Death of Alexander the Great
Season 5 Episode 99
The last years of Alexander the Great's reign were a troubled time. The king wanted to keep fighting, but his soldiers were spent after years of campaigning. Then, quite suddenly, the king died, and …
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Alexander the Great: Soldier, Priest, and God. Interview with Professor Fred Naiden
Season 5 Episode 98
Professor Fred Naiden wrote one of my favorite books on Alexander the Great - Soldier, Priest, and God - and it provides a much different view of Alexander than the warrior king we so often see in mo…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
The Other Ancient Civilisations: Interview with Raven Todd DaSilva
Season 5 Episode 97
When we think of the ancient world, we tend to think of just a few societies: Egypt, Mesopotamia, and so on. But the more distant reaches of the past contained multitudes, and Raven Todd DaSilva has …
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Alexander the Great, the End of the Persian Empire, and the Descent into India
Season 5 Episode 96
Alexander the Great's campaigns didn't end once he had defeated the Persian king Darius III and conquered the heart of his empire; he went still further, into the vastness of the Iranian Plateau and …
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago