Tag: Achaemenids

Intelligent Speech 2026!!!

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Title card featuring cuneiform and the Behistun Inscription. Text: Darius: The Great (Big Liar) Host: Trevor Culley, HoPful Media: History of Persia & America: Secret Wars

Intelligent Speech Online 2026 is almost here, and if I haven’t yet sold you on attending the conference on February 28, 2026 (starting at 9am US Eastern Time), you might be interested in my presentation from last year’s event.

When he seized the Persian throne in 522 BCE, Darius the Great made a public declaration explaining his coup in the Bisotun Inscription. Details changed with each retelling, but that version of story is the only one that survived in ancient sources. Modern historians are pretty sure that it’s one of the most successful lies ever told.
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145: From Antiochus to Ashoka

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Sketch of the Aramaic inscription of Ashoka at Khalsi

After losing a large piece of the eastern empire to Chandragupta Maurya, the Seleucids didn’t just ignore their eastern neighbors. In the later decades of Seleucus’ reign, Megasthenes established diplomatic ties between the two eastern kingdoms. In the generations that followed, diplomacy and trade helped to stabilize both the Maurya and the Seleucids.
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Intelligent Speech Panels Tomorrow February 8!

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The minor states of Hellenistic Anatolia

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 panel. Get those tickets ASAP!!!
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Featuring:
Derek – The Hellenistic Age
https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/
Umberto – So You Think You Can Rule Persia
https://soyouthinkyoucanrulepersia.wordpress.com/
Bry – Pontifacts
https://pontifacts.podbean.com/

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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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History of Saqartvelo-Georgia
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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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