Listen, learn and laugh your ass off as Ray & Cam present a blow-by-blow version of the life of history’s most successful general and empire builder.
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Renaissance Episode 1 – Constantine The Great
Our new series, The Renaissance Times, launched on Dec 24, 2017. Here’s the first episode! Go check out the rest of the series at therenaissancetimes.com. At its peak, the Library…
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Subscribing To Renaissance
The Dark Ages are ending! As you may have realized, we published our very last Alexander episode last week! Now some of you might be wondering what to do now? Well, I had hoped I’d…
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Subscribing To Renaissance
The Dark Ages are ending! As you may have realized, we published our very last Alexander episode last week! Now some of you might be wondering what to do now? Well, I had hoped I’d…
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#122 – The Last Show
Well, here we are. Three years, 122 episodes, some of which were a LOT longer than an hour, so probably around 130-140 hours of story. We started with 14 episodes covering the rise…
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#122 – The Last Show
Well, here we are. Three years, 122 episodes, some of which were a LOT longer than an hour, so probably around 130-140 hours of story. We started with 14 episodes covering the rise…
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#121 – Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves
The sixth and final battle of the Successors was fought at Corupedium, west of Sardis, in Feb 281. HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the show below or…
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#120 – And Then There Were Two
It's 282 BCE. The only two guys left from the original bunch of successors are Lysimachus, who is now about 78, and Seleucus, who is 76. Friends and colleagues for 60 years, they n…
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#119 – Demetrius’s Downfall
The scale of Demetrius Poliocortes's buildup threatened all of the other kings. So they formed a coalition against him. It was the Fifth War Of The Successors. < >HOW TO LISTEN If…
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#118 – I Won’t Back Down
Demetrius Poliocortes prepares a massive invasion of Asia. He could have just stayed in Macedon and stabilised his relatively recent kingship, but he won't back down. HOW TO LISTEN…
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#117 – King Of Macedon
The Big D is finally the King of Macedon. But how long can he hold on to the throne? Lysimachus is taken prisoner by a barbarian king. And hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. H…
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#116 – See See Athens
The Big D returns to Athens. Cassy's teenage sons fight each other, kill their mum, and then both get betrayed and killed themselves. Selly's son falls in love with his step-mother…
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#115 – Hellenistic Philosophy
Big things were happening in Athens circa 300 BCE in the world of philosophy, with the beginnings of the schools of Epicurus and Zeno – aka the Epicureans and the Stoics. HOW TO LI…
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#114 – A Bolt To The Mouth
Cassander dies, and his son inherits the kingdom of Macedon. Then HE dies, so Cassander's teenage sons jointly inherit the kingdom. Meanwhile Athens is in a famine and a civil war,…
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#113 – Don’t Give Up
Demetrius had fled Ipsus with several thousand men, mainly the cavalry he had been commanding. He holed up in Ephesus where he had a garrison. His last strength was command of the…
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#112 – After Ipsus
After Ipsus, the surviving coalition kings divided up the Antigonid kingdom between themselves. But Demetrius isn't out of the picture yet. HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscr…
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#111 – Ian Worthington
Professor Ian Worthington joins us again to talk about new book about Ptolemy! HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the show below or subscribe through i…
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#111 – Ian Worthington
Professor Ian Worthington joins us again to talk about new book about Ptolemy! HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the show below or subscribe through i…
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#110 – The Battle of Ipsus
Old Gonad himself, now 80 years old, broke his retirement and moved north into Asia Minor. So the big battle happened at Ipsus in Phrygia in Turkey. Each side had roughly 80,000 me…
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#109 – The Lead Up To Ipsus
Demetrius is in Athens, pissing people off, left right and center. But hey, he thinks he's a god, so whaddya going to do? Then, when he's about to invade Macedon, Cassander sues fo…
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#108 – The Colossus Of Rhodes
To show how grateful they were to Ptolemy, the Rhodians created a new cult to worship him as a saviour god. Demetrius got a new title out of the campaign too – Poliorcetes “the Bes…