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I’ve heard back from the last university I’ve been waiting to hear from, and I’m excited to announce I’ve officially been accepted to every school I’ve recently applied to. All 8 of them!

Now editing Episode 12 - The Hellespont!

568 years ago today.

It has taken me months to produce, but editing for Episode 12 is finished! I can’t wait for it to be released tomorrow morning.

This is probably my favorite episode in the show so far: Diving into the make-up of a Hellenic army, while covering perhaps one of the single greatest military upsets in history. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did researching, writing, and recording this episode!

Episode 12 - The Hellespont, is now live! This episode, the largest battle in the narrative thus far is fought between Eumenes and Craterus, the two leading generals in the Anatolian theater of the First War of the Diadochi. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kin…

It’s been a while since I’ve checked this, and wow. Who knew that many people were interested in Greco-Persian history!

The script for Episode 13 of the podcast is now finished!

Episode 13 has been recorded! In this episode, we’ll be looking at some of the often-overlooked side theaters of the First War of the Diadochi in Aetolia, Cyprus, and Babylon.

Happy to report that Episode 13 will be released at some point this coming week! I’m about 25-30% through editing it at the moment.

And so it is finished! Episode 13 will premier tomorrow morning, as we explore the three "side theaters" of the First War of the Diadochi.

The Arch of Ctesiphon near Baghdad. The worlds largest single span unreinforced brick arch, built in the 6th Century AD. #archaeohistories

The Taliban is now posting memes about the fall of the Sassanid Empire.

For the Hellenistic period: 1. The Hellenistic Far East - R. Mairs 2. Mediterranean Anarchy - A. Eckstein 3. Land of the Elephant Kings - P.J. Kosmin 4. Thundering Zeus - F. Holt 5. Women in Hellenistic Egypt - S. Pomeroy 6. Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome - E. Gruen

I have 2 copies of Eric Cline's book 1177BC to give away to coincide with the interview I did with him. Promote Casting Through Ancient Greece on Twitter to go into the draw to win a copy. 2nd copy will be drawn amongst my Patreon members. Full details in the episode. Drawn 1st Nov

The two-part episode on the Fourth Syrian War is so fun to write, it basically narrates itself: a spoiled and lazy kinglet of an realm at the height of its power/wealth versus an equally young but ambitious ruler taking the reins of an empire on the verge of collapse.

Some humor for the day.

The Wars of Alexander’s Successors was the ultimate exercise in futility. All of these people spent decades fighting one another to seize power, and for what? Almost all of them died anyway and the empire they fought over disintegrated in the process.

In other news, grad school is going great! I get my Masters in History in the summer 2023. I intend to relaunch this podcast with a focus on the Wars of the Diadochi at some point in 2023. There will likely be a rebrand and possibly a remastering of the previous episodes.