Category: Podcast Episodes

Holiday Special 2025 (Happy Sadeh!)

On By Trevor CulleyIn History of Persia, Podcast Episodes1 Comment
Modern Sadeh celebration in Iran via Wikimedia

Slightly delayed by world events, but planned and written for December 2025, History of Persia marks the Iranian and Zoroastrian holiday of Sadeh, a feast and fire to stave off the dark winter nights and celebrate light and warmth.
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The Gist of the Jashan Ceremony – https://www.avesta.org/antia/Gist_of_the_Jashan_R1.pdf

The Atash Niyayesh – https://www.avesta.org/ka/niyayesh.htm#ny5

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160: Philosophy and Medicine

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Portrait of the Seleucid and Ptolemaic physician Erisistratos by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1860

Unfortunately for the study of Seleucid philosophy, the Seleucid kings were not major patrons of the lovers of wisdom as their Hellenistic neighbors were, and the works of the philosophers they did patronize have not survived. However, somewhat more can be said of Seleucid patronage of ancient medicine.
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159: The Lovers of Wisdom

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Socrates and his students as depicted in by al-Mubashshir, c. 13th Century CE, via Wikimedia

We’re taking a break from the narrative for a brief introduction to Ancient Greek Philosophy. From Thales to Epicurus, it’s time.
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The Hellenistic Age Podcast – https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps – https://historyofphilosophy.net/

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158: A Flawed Inheritance

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Silver tetradrachm depicting Seleucus III Keranaus via Wikimedia

After chasing his brother out of Asia, but still beaten by the Parthians, Seleucus II returned to Antioch to face the family drama royals are best known for and to prepare for another round of war. In a speed round family episode, we’ll cover the Seleucid extended family, the death of Seleucus Callinichus, and the reign of Seleucus III Ceranaus.
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157: The Seleucid Civil War

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Antiochus Hierax featured on a silver tetradrachm coin with the god Apollo on the reverse via Wikimedia

During the Third Syrian War, Seleucus II Callinicus discovered treachery. His younger brother, Antiochus Hierax and their royal relatives in Anatolia attempted to usurp the throne. Seleucus was forced to make a hasty peace with Ptolemy III and return to the north to face his brother in open civil war.
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156: Babylon Drift

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Silver tetradrachm coin featuring Seleukos II Kallinikos, complete with beard, via Wikimedia

With Babylonia and the Seleucis of Syria under Ptolemaic occupation, it’s entirely possible that the only thing that saved Seleucus II was an Egyptian famine. Free to go on the offensive, Seleucus turned the tide of the Third Syrian War.
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155: The War of the Mothers

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Gold octodrachm coin depicting Ptolemy III Euergetes via Wikimedia

Antiochus II Theos was dead and his wives, Laodike and Berenike, were both trying to get their sons on the Seleucid throne. Both sides called on their relatives, the Achaeids and Ptolemies, to plunder and retake the vulnerable Empire.
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153: Blood Relations

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Antiochus II’s probable tomb, the Belevi Mausoleum via Wikimedia

It’s time to wind down Antiochus II Theos and talk about his extended royal family, from his various siblings spread out across the Hellenistic world to the powerful cousins entrenched in Anatolia. Then we’ll wrap up with his two wives, Laodike and Berenike, and their three sons, Seleucus, Antiochus, and Antiochus.
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152: There Goes the Neighborhood

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Cappadocian coin featuring Ariarathes III via Wikimedia

During and after the Second Syrian War, Antiochus II was involved in many ongoing events with his smaller neighbors and subordinates. Whether it was intervening in the Cappadocian monarchy, being kept out of Bithynia by threats of a wider war, or granting autonomy to Parthia and Bactria to fight the Parni, the Seleucid Empire was a busy place in the mid-3rd Century BCE.
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