Author: Trevor Culley

I'm Trevor Culley. My personal experience with both Persian history and podcasts began with a college extra credit assignment to listen to the first Hardcore History history episode on the Achaemenids. I was instantly enthralled with the stories of the Kings of Kings and coming a little late to the party, started listening to podcasts. On one hand, I started heading down the road toward PhD that will let me study ancient Persia for a living. On the other, as I binged my way through both the History of Rome and early episodes of the History of Byzantium I was always excited for the episodes dealing with the Parthians and Sassanids. I'm sure some of you shared my surprise and disappointment to discover that there was not a similarly dedicated podcast dealing with the great empires east of Rome. So that brings us here. I've decided to personally create that dedicated podcast.

History of Persia Live at Intelligent Speech

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Communes, Cults, and Caliphs: Battles Against Private Property in Ancient Iran Left to right: Babak Khorramdin, the court of Khosrow Anushirvan, and a Qizilpash warrior

Intelligent Speech 2025 is coming! The event will feature a gathering of excellent history podcasters THIS SATURDAY. That’s FEBRUARY 8, 2025 at 10:00am US Eastern Time for an all day event featuring presentations, panels, and live Q&A with a ton of history podcasts. If that doesn’t convince you, this episode is last year’s History of Persia Presentation. Get those tickets ASAP!!!

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017: The Republic of Indian Stream (Canadian Almost War 1)

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The bust of Luther Parker we look at during the episode via Wikimedia (edited by Trevor Culley)
Map of the Indian Stream region via Wikimedia

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 1, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the fascinating little Republic of Indian Stream.
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Brown – The Struggle for the Indian Stream Territory
Keedy – The Constitutions of The State of Franklin, The Indian Stream Republic and The State of Deseret
Showerman – The Indian Stream Republic and Luther Parker
Tsai – America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community

141: The Age of Antiochus

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Gold Stater of Antiochus I from Ai Khanoum via Wikimedia

Antiochus I succeeded his father Seleucus in 281 BCE, and he was immediately plunged into a series of revolts, invasion, and crises in every direction. Ptolemy II was seizing land. The reconquest of the northern dynasts was horribly mismanaged, and as a cherry on top, Gauls suddenly invaded Greece.
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140: Meet the Neighbors Who Resisted

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Map of the Diadochoi states c. 270 BC via Ian Mladjov’s resources

By the time Seleucus Nicator was murdered, he had reunited much of Alexander the Great’s Empire, but the northern and southwestern edges of the imperial map were rapidly filling in with new, smaller kingdoms and confederations. From Chorasmia to the Cimmerian Bosporus, and from Bithynia to the Nabataean Arabs, this episode gives a brief overview of the smaller successors to Alexander and Darius.
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Holiday Special 2024 – Zartosht No Diso

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Zoroaster and Vishtaspa depicted in the Bombay Shahnameh, 1849.

According to tradition, the prophet Zoroaster died at 77 years and 40 days old on Khorshed Dae AKA December 26 (depending on who you ask). Let’s talk about it.
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Cardinal Numbers Podcast https://www.popeularhistory.com/episodes/cardinal-numbers
Zoroastrian numerology https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-85prx-1475d46

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137: Who are you again?… Again

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Approximate map of the Hellenistic world c.300 BCE (in Spanish), via Wikimedia

Today, we step back from the narrative to see what kind of empire Seleucus was actually running here.
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136: Ipsus

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Rough combat map for the Battle of Ipsus – Cavalry in slashed blocks, phalanges infantry in solid blocks, skirmishers in dots, elephants in ovals – via Wikimedia

The Wars of the Diadochoi did not end in 301 BCE, but their Fourth War finished with a dramatic turning point in the Battle of Ipsus as Antigonus and Demetrius faced off against Seleucus, Lysimachus, and Pleistarchus.
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135: Rise of the Elephant King

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Approximate extent of Chandragupta Maurya’s Empire by the end of his life via Wikimedia

After reclaiming Babylon, King Seleucus began consolidating his power over the upper satrapies, but even as he worked to reclaim the Iranian east, the Mauryan Empire began pushing out of India and across the mountains of Gandhara.
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