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Interview: The "Flight of Seleucus" and Dynastic Propaganda, with Angus Jacobson
It's never easy coming up with your own origin story, and the ascendant Hellenistic dynasties tried their best to justify their legitimacy in an age …
2 years, 1 month ago
098: Hellenistic Science - Mechanics, Engineering, and Technology
The developments in theoretical mathematics were also translated into practical (and sometimes impractical) applications during the Hellenistic perio…
2 years, 2 months ago
097: Hellenistic Science - Mathematics
The third century B.C. witnessed the greatest outburst of Greco-Roman mathematics in the entirety of antiquity. Euclid of Alexandria's "Elements" ser…
2 years, 3 months ago
096: Hellenistic Science - Medicine and the Healing Arts
As the first episode in our series on science and technology, we begin by looking at the advancements in medicine during the Hellenistic Age. In Alex…
2 years, 4 months ago
095: Ptolemaic Egypt - The Two Lands Restored
Twenty years of chaos in the Ptolemaic kingdom come to an end during the reign of Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204-180). His marriage to the Seleucid princes…
2 years, 6 months ago
094: The Senate vs Scipio Africanus
Rome hoped that the Peace of Apamea would instill some sort of order over the eastern Mediterranean, allowing them to return to Italy after decades o…
2 years, 8 months ago
093: The Seleucid Empire - The Peace of Apamea
The defeat at the Battle of Magnesia brings the war between Antiochus III and the Roman Republic to a close. Forced to evacuate all territory north o…
2 years, 9 months ago
092: The Seleucid Empire - Magnesia
On invitation from the Aetolian League, Antiochus III invades the Greek mainland in September 192 and declares war against the Roman Republic. Though…
2 years, 10 months ago
091: The Fifth Syrian War
The crisis in Egypt enabled Antiochus III to launch another invasion south into Ptolemaic territory, kickstarting the Fifth Syrian War (202-195) that…
2 years, 11 months ago
090: Freedom of the Greeks
With the defeat of Philip V at Cynoscephalae, Flamininus was tasked with deciding the fate of Greece in the postwar period. At the Isthmian Games of …
3 years ago