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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
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Umberto – So You Think You Can Rule Persia
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Bry – Pontifacts
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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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History of Saqartvelo-Georgia
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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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134: Samrat – Meet the Neighbors

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Chandragupta and Cāṇakya in the central hall of the Srimadbhagavadgita temple, Mathura via Wikimedia

While Macedon was consolidating and collapsing in the west, a new empire was on the rise in the east. Chandragupta Maurya and his teacher, Chanakya, were busy overthrowing the Nanda Dynasty and expanding their new kingdom to become one of the great powers of Indian history.
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133: Meet the Diadochoi

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Demetrius’ Attack on Rhodes from Cassell’s illustrated universal history, 1882

After the death of Alexander IV, the former friends and generals of Alexander the Great held their breath, waiting almost a year to resume their wars. The Fourth War of the Diadochoi saw them claim their royal titles as the Successors as Cassander, Ptolemy, and Demetrius battled for dominance.
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