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126: Attalid Pergamon - Aristonicus and the City of the Sun

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125: Ptolemaic Egypt - East Africa, the Red Sea, and Nubia

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124: Ptolemaic Egypt - Sound and Fury

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123: The Seleucid Empire - Wrath of the Goddess

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122: Ptolemaic Egypt - The Good, the Bad, and the Fatty

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121: The Seleucid Empire - The Man They Called Sidetes

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120: The Seleucid Empire - Writing on the Wall

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119: The Rise of the Parthian Empire - From Arsaces to Mithridates I

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118: Graecia Capta - The Roman Conquest of Greece

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117: Antigonid Macedon - The Vergina Sun Never Sets...

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116: The Third Punic War - Dido's Lament

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115: The Third Punic War - Delenda Est

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114: The Nabataean Kingdom

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113: The War of the Three Kings

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112: The Seleucid Empire - Breaking the Hammer

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111: The Seleucid Empire - The Elephant in the (Throne) Room

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110 Ptolemaic Egypt - Two's Company, Three's a Crowd

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109: The Seleucid Empire - A Sinful Root

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108: The Seleucid Empire - The Maccabean Revolt

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107: Jews and Judaism from Alexander the Great to Antiochus III

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Interview: "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" with William Dalrymple

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106: Jewish Literature in the Hellenistic Age

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Bonus: Elizabeth Taylor's "Cleopatra" (1963)

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105: The Sixth Syrian War and Day of Eleusis

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104: The Seleucid Empire - Madness and the Divine

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103: Antigonid Macedon - The First Domino Falls

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102: Antigonid Macedon - Sins of the Father

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101: Antigonid Macedon - A House Divided

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100: Q&A #2 - Electric Boogaloo

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099: Hellenistic Science - Geography and Astronomy

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Interview: The "Flight of Seleucus" and Dynastic Propaganda, with Angus Jacobson

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098: Hellenistic Science - Mechanics, Engineering, and Technology

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097: Hellenistic Science - Mathematics

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096: Hellenistic Science - Medicine and the Healing Arts

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095: Ptolemaic Egypt - The Two Lands Restored

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094: The Senate vs Scipio Africanus

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093: The Seleucid Empire - The Peace of Apamea

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092: The Seleucid Empire - Magnesia

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091: The Fifth Syrian War

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090: Freedom of the Greeks

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089: Antigonid Macedon - Legion and Phalanx

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088: The Pact of the Kings

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087: Ptolemaic Egypt - The Great Revolt

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086: The Attalid Kingdom of Pergamon

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085 Antigonid Macedon - Storm Clouds In The West

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Interview: The Roman Republic at War with Dr. Bret Devereaux

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084: Rome Arrives in the Hellenistic East

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083: Hellenistic Literature - Apollonius of Rhodes and the "Argonautica"

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082: Hellenistic Literature - Court Poetry and Propaganda

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Bonus: The Antikythera Shipwreck

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081: Hellenistic Literature - Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry

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080: Hellenistic Literature - Menander and New Comedy

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Bonus: Anchors Aweigh - The Seleucid Anchor and Imperial Iconography

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Interview - The Kushan Empire with Dr. Lauren Morris

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Interview: Globalization in the Ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean with Dr. Serena Autiero

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079: The Indo-Greeks - Homer on the Indus

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Interview: Greco-Indian and Buddhist Art of Gandhara with Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi

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Interview: Greco-Buddhism in Central Asia and India with Lee Clarke

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078: The Indo-Greeks - Heracles, Menander, and the Buddha

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077: The Indo-Greeks - Invasion of the Yavanarajas

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076: Greco-Bactria - Han China and the War of the Heavenly Horses

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Interview: Ai Khanoum and Identity in Hellenistic Bactria with Dr. Rachel Mairs

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075: Greco-Bactria - Alexandria Eschate to Ai Khanoum

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Interview: Coinage and Numismatics in Greek Central Asia with Dr. Frank Lee Holt

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074: Greco-Bactria - Land of a Thousand Cities

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073: The Seleucid Empire - The Anabasis of Antiochus the Great

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072: The Fourth Syrian War - The Battle of Raphia

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071: The Fourth Syrian War - A Tale of Two Kingdoms

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070: The Second Punic War - To the Victors...

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069: The Second Punic War - Hannibal at the Gates

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068: The Second Punic War - Over the Mountains

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Interview: "Alexander's Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years" w/ Tristan Hughes

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067: Rome and Carthage Between the Punic Wars

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Interview: Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the Jewish Tradition w/ Dr. Joseph Scales

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066: Antigonid Macedon - Philip V and the Social War

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065: Antigonid Macedon - The Last March of the Spartans

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064: Antigonid Macedon - Of Revolutions and Reforms

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Interview: On Hellenistic Federalism w/ Dr. Elke Close (Hellenistic History)

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063: Ptolemaic Egypt - Berenice's Lock and the Gates of Babylon

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062: Ptolemaic Egypt - Egyptians in a Greek Land

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Interview: On the Cavalry of the Seleucid Empire w/ Dr. Silvannen Gerrard

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061: Ptolemaic Egypt - Greeks in an Egyptian Land

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060: Ptolemaic Egypt - A Traveler's Guide to Alexandria

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Interview: On Antigonus II Gonatas w/ Robin Waterfield

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059: Ptolemaic Egypt - Kingdom of Gold, Kingdom of the Nile

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058: Ptolemaic Egypt - Two Lands, Two Peoples, One Ruler

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Interview: On Demetrius Poliorcetes w/ Dr. Charlotte Dunn

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057: The Seleucid Empire - My Brother's Keeper

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Interview: Alexander the Great in Ancient Art & Literature w/ Meg Finlayson

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056: The Seleucid Empire - A Royal Wedding, A Bactrian Revolt, & A Parthian Invasion

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Interview: On the Army of Ptolemaic Egypt w/ Dr. Paul Johstono

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055: The Seleucid Empire - Syrian Nights, Macedonian Dreams

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Interview: On the Illyrian Wars w/ Dr. Christopher Gribbin

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054: The Seleucid Empire - Kingship & Governance in the Arche Seleukia

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053: The Bosporan Kingdom - Greeks of the Crimea

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052: Mapping the Oikoumene - Explorers & Exploration of the Hellenistic World

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051: Peoples of the Steppe - Scythians & Saka to Parthians & Yuezhi

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050: A Q&A Celebration

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049: Barbarians of the Black Sea - The Galatians & Odrysian Thrace

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048: Persian & Iranian Survival in a Hellenistic World