History of Persia

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 p...

7 Helmi 202543min

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 p...

5 Helmi 202540min

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 t...

28 Tammi 202538min

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 k...

14 Tammi 202553min

9 Kings of Macedon, 8 A-names, 7 warring states, 6 kingdoms, 5 marriage pacts, 4 dead successors, 3 Ptolemies, 2 wars of succession, and 1 Victor all in one episode. The age of the diadochoi ends with...

30 Joulu 202436min

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.Cardinal Numbers Podcast https://www.pope...

25 Joulu 202430min

Today, we explore the family of King Seleucus I from his grandfather to his sons and daughters, including one of history's first uses of the she's only his step-mom excuse. Visit https://HoPfulMedia...

16 Joulu 202434min

Today, we step back from the narrative to see what kind of empire Seleucus was actually running here. Download Ian Mladjov's Maps https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/imladjov/maps Visit https://HoP...

10 Joulu 202429min