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The Hellenistic Age Podcast — 154 episodes
120 The Seleucid Empire - Writing on the Wall
119: The Rise of the Parthian Empire - From Arsaces to Mithridates I
118: Graecia Capta - The Roman Conquest of Greece
117: Antigonid Macedon - The Vergina Sun Never Sets...
116: The Third Punic War - Dido's Lament
115: The Third Punic War - Delenda Est
114: The Nabataean Kingdom
113: The War of the Three Kings
112: The Seleucid Empire - Breaking the Hammer
111: The Seleucid Empire - The Elephant in the (Throne) Room
110 Ptolemaic Egypt - Two's Company, Three's a Crowd
109: The Seleucid Empire - A Sinful Root
108: The Seleucid Empire - The Maccabean Revolt
107: Jews and Judaism from Alexander the Great to Antiochus III
Interview: "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" with William Dalrymple
106: Jewish Literature in the Hellenistic Age
Bonus: Elizabeth Taylor's "Cleopatra" (1963)
105: The Sixth Syrian War and Day of Eleusis
104: The Seleucid Empire - Madness and the Divine
103: Antigonid Macedon - The First Domino Falls
102: Antigonid Macedon - Sins of the Father
101: Antigonid Macedon - A House Divided
100: Q&A #2 - Electric Boogaloo
099: Hellenistic Science - Geography and Astronomy
Interview: The "Flight of Seleucus" and Dynastic Propaganda, with Angus Jacobson
098: Hellenistic Science - Mechanics, Engineering, and Technology
097: Hellenistic Science - Mathematics
096: Hellenistic Science - Medicine and the Healing Arts
095: Ptolemaic Egypt - The Two Lands Restored
094: The Senate vs Scipio Africanus
093: The Seleucid Empire - The Peace of Apamea
092: The Seleucid Empire - Magnesia
091: The Fifth Syrian War
090: Freedom of the Greeks
089: Antigonid Macedon - Legion and Phalanx
088: The Pact of the Kings
087: Ptolemaic Egypt - The Great Revolt
086: The Attalid Kingdom of Pergamon
085 Antigonid Macedon - Storm Clouds In The West
Interview: The Roman Republic at War with Dr. Bret Devereaux
084: Rome Arrives in the Hellenistic East
083: Hellenistic Literature - Apollonius of Rhodes and the "Argonautica"
082: Hellenistic Literature - Court Poetry and Propaganda
Bonus: The Antikythera Shipwreck
081: Hellenistic Literature - Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry
080: Hellenistic Literature - Menander and New Comedy
Bonus: Anchors Aweigh - The Seleucid Anchor and Imperial Iconography
Interview - The Kushan Empire with Dr. Lauren Morris
Interview: Globalization in the Ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean with Dr. Serena Autiero
079: The Indo-Greeks - Homer on the Indus
Interview: Greco-Indian and Buddhist Art of Gandhara with Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi
Interview: Greco-Buddhism in Central Asia and India with Lee Clarke
078: The Indo-Greeks - Heracles, Menander, and the Buddha
077: The Indo-Greeks - Invasion of the Yavanarajas
076: Greco-Bactria - Han China and the War of the Heavenly Horses
Interview: Ai Khanoum and Identity in Hellenistic Bactria with Dr. Rachel Mairs
075: Greco-Bactria - Alexandria Eschate to Ai Khanoum
Interview: Coinage and Numismatics in Greek Central Asia with Dr. Frank Lee Holt
074: Greco-Bactria - Land of a Thousand Cities
073: The Seleucid Empire - The Anabasis of Antiochus the Great
072: The Fourth Syrian War - The Battle of Raphia
071: The Fourth Syrian War - A Tale of Two Kingdoms
070: The Second Punic War - To the Victors...
069: The Second Punic War - Hannibal at the Gates
068: The Second Punic War - Over the Mountains
Interview: "Alexander's Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years" w/ Tristan Hughes
067: Rome and Carthage Between the Punic Wars
Interview: Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the Jewish Tradition w/ Dr. Joseph Scales
066: Antigonid Macedon - Philip V and the Social War
065: Antigonid Macedon - The Last March of the Spartans
064: Antigonid Macedon - Of Revolutions and Reforms
Interview: On Hellenistic Federalism w/ Dr. Elke Close (Hellenistic History)
063: Ptolemaic Egypt - Berenice's Lock and the Gates of Babylon
062: Ptolemaic Egypt - Egyptians in a Greek Land
Interview: On the Cavalry of the Seleucid Empire w/ Dr. Silvannen Gerrard
061: Ptolemaic Egypt - Greeks in an Egyptian Land
060: Ptolemaic Egypt - A Traveler's Guide to Alexandria
Interview: On Antigonus II Gonatas w/ Robin Waterfield
059: Ptolemaic Egypt - Kingdom of Gold, Kingdom of the Nile
058: Ptolemaic Egypt - Two Lands, Two Peoples, One Ruler
Interview: On Demetrius Poliorcetes w/ Dr. Charlotte Dunn
057: The Seleucid Empire - My Brother's Keeper
Interview: Alexander the Great in Ancient Art & Literature w/ Meg Finlayson
056: The Seleucid Empire - A Royal Wedding, A Bactrian Revolt, & A Parthian Invasion
Interview: On the Army of Ptolemaic Egypt w/ Dr. Paul Johstono
055: The Seleucid Empire - Syrian Nights, Macedonian Dreams
Interview: On the Illyrian Wars w/ Dr. Christopher Gribbin
054: The Seleucid Empire - Kingship & Governance in the Arche Seleukia
053: The Bosporan Kingdom - Greeks of the Crimea
052: Mapping the Oikoumene - Explorers & Exploration of the Hellenistic World
051: Peoples of the Steppe - Scythians & Saka to Parthians & Yuezhi
050: A Q&A Celebration
049: Barbarians of the Black Sea - The Galatians & Odrysian Thrace
048: Persian & Iranian Survival in a Hellenistic World
047: Hellenistic Philosophy - Cynics, Cyrenaics, & Peripatetics
046: Hellenistic Philosophy - Pyrrhonian & Academic Skepticism
Interview: On Hellenistic Naval Warfare w/ Stephen DeCasien
Interview: On Rulership & Ruler-Cults in Ptolemaic Egypt w/ Henry Bohun
Interview: On the Islamic Reception of Cleopatra w/ Yentl Love (thequeerclassicist.com)
Interview: On the Wars of the Diadochi w/ John McTavish
045: Hellenistic Philosophy - Stoics & Stoicism
Show Update: Merchandise & Episode 50's Q&A
044: Hellenistic Philosophy - Epicurus & Epicureanism
043: The First Punic War - Let Them Drink!
Interview: On the Parthian Empire w/ Dr. Nikolaus Overtoom
042: The First Punic War - The Sicilian Wrestling Ground
041: Polybius of Megalopolis - Historian of the Hellenistic Age
040: Carthage - The Forgotten Mediterranean Empire
On Oliver Stone's "Alexander" w/ Trevor Culley (The History of Persia Podcast)
039: Agathocles of Syracuse - Tyrant & King
038: Antigonid Macedon - A Glorious Servitude
037: Antigonid Macedon - Gonatas & the Macedonian Anarchy
Interview: On the Seleucid Empire w/ Dr. Kyle Erickson
(Bonus) Philip II & the Rise of Macedon
036: Hellenistic Cities - Colonization, Urbanization, & Hellenization
035: Ptolemaic Egypt - War & Peace in the 'Birdcage of the Muses'
034: Ptolemaic Egypt - The (Incestuous) Lion's Brood
033: Ptolemaic Egypt - Ptolemy I: Son of Lagus, Son of Ra
032: The Mauryan Empire of India
031: The Age of Giants - Elephants in the Hellenistic Age
030: The Seleucid Empire - Antiochus I, Last King of the Universe
029: The Seleucid Empire - Seleucus I & the Foundation of the Empire
028: Hellenistic Women - Queens & Royal Women
Interview: On Hellenistic & Roman Rhodes w/ Dr. Thomas Coward
027: Hellenistic Women - Daily Life & Roles
026: Pyrrhus - The Wars in Italy & a Pyrrhic Victory (280-272 BC)
025: Pyrrhus - Wars with the Diadochi, & Westward Ho! (296-280 BC)
024: Pyrrhus - The World of Epirus, & the Early Years (319-286 BC)
023: Children of Mars Pt 2 - The Roman Unification of Central Italy & the Polybian Legion 390-282 BC
022: Children of Mars - The Roman Kingdom and Early Republic (753- 390BC)
021: Assuming the Diadem - Kingship in the Hellenistic Age
020: The Celtic Invasion of Greece - The Gallic Tsunami
019: The Celtic Invasion of Greece - Celtic Civilization & History (1300-300 B.C.)
018: To the Strongest - The End of the Wars of the Diadochi
(Bonus) Lost Talisman: The Mystery of Alexander the Great's Corpse
017: To the Strongest - The 4th War of the Diadochi
016: To the Strongest - The 3rd War of the Diadochi & Babylonian War
015: To the Strongest - The 1st and 2nd Wars of the Diadochi
014: To the Strongest - The King is Dead, Long Live the...Kings?
013: The Age of Alexander - To the Strongest
012: The Age of Alexander - India, and the Journey's End
011: The Age of Alexander - Alas, What Evil Customs Reign in Macedon
010: The Age of Alexander - 12 Angry Macedonians
009: The Age of Alexander - Son of a God, King of the World
008: The Age of Alexander - "He too is Alexander"
007: The Age of Alexander – "It Is Undone"
(Bonus)A Case for Oliver Stone's "Alexander"
006: The Age of Alexander - Trouble on the Homefront
005: The Age of Alexander - The King is Dead, Long Live the King!
004: Prelude - The Macedonian Military Machine
003: Prelude - The Kingdom of Macedon
002: Prelude - Achaemenid Persia
001: Prelude - The Greeks
000: Introducing the Hellenistic Age - Beginning at the End