050: A Q&A Celebration

The Hellenistic Age Podcast

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4.7 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

With 49 episodes published, I decided to celebrate by making episode 50 a question and answer session, where I respond to topics fielded by listeners of the show. We dive into discussions on favorite history books, how to get into podcasting, and more historical topics like "who was the greatest of Alexander's Successors?" and "who would win in a wrestling match between Socrates and Antigonus the One-Eyed?" Title Theme: Seikilos Epitapth with the Lyre of Apollo, played by Lina Palera (https://soundcloud.com/user-994392473) Episode Notes: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/2020/08/21/050-a-qa-celebration/) History Books Mentioned: - “The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithridates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy” by Adrienne Mayor - “The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire” by Paul Kosmin” - “The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language, and Identity in Greek Central Asia” by Rachel Mairs” - “Caesar: Life of a Colossus” by Adrian Goldsworthy - “A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918” by G.J. Meyer - “The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire” by Kyle Harper - “Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity” by J.E. Lendon - “Alexander the Great” – by Robin Lane Fox Historical Comics/Graphic Novels/Artists: - Alexandra Filipek (https://alexandra.filipek.us/) - Matt Crotts (https://twitter.com/mattcrotts) - Reimena Yee (https://reimenayee.com/alexander-the-great/) -“Conquest: Julius Caesar’s Gallic War” (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1479842225/conquest-julius-caesars-gallic-wars) - "Historie" by Hitoshi Iwaaki Show Merchandise: Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/HellenisticAgePod) Donations: Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/hellenisticagepodcast) Amazon Book Wish List (https://tinyurl.com/vfw6ask)

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0:00.0	Hi there, you're listening to the Hellenistic Age podcast.
0:13.0	Episode 50, a mean, technically we've done more than 50 if we were to count
0:31.2	bonus and interview episodes, but this is an arbitrary milestone, so what the hell? Now's as
0:36.8	good of a time as any.
0:38.3	It's been roughly two years and three months since we started this journey, and I am very
0:43.0	proud of the way this little experiment has turned out.
0:46.1	But I would like to say thanks to everyone for listening to and supporting the podcast.
0:51.1	It's an amazing feeling to hear when people who listen to the show say that they
0:54.5	were glad to see their favorite period of history covered, or those newbies to the topic
0:58.4	who had little direction as to where to start. For the last few months, I've been collecting
1:03.2	your questions to answer about nearly any and all topics, ranging from general inquiries about
1:08.4	podcasting, book recommendations, personal questions, and opinions on historical events.
1:14.0	I've decided to arrange the structure of this Q&A according to those categories,
1:18.5	and I'll be up front and say that I've read them all over and have given my answers some thought in the organization in order to be more coherent.
1:25.6	I mean, for God's sakes, you wouldn't want to hear me just go, um, ah, all the time. I mean, you have no idea what's going on in the background of this podcast. I have no idea how long this will end up being, but I've got my bottle of mango green tea with some ice and I'm ready to get this thing going. So, let us begin. From Sean and many others, what got you into
1:48.1	podcasting? This is a kind of an extension of questions, so I'll try to keep myself from rambling.
1:55.4	History has always interested me to some extent or another, ever since I was a kid watching
2:00.0	movies like Gladiator and
2:01.9	the 13th Warrior or just going over books from the school library about Pompeii or the
2:06.9	Blue Bionic Plague, but I never really dedicated myself to it. Instead, I studied biology,
2:12.8	philosophy, and I got my MBA as I went into university. In my first year, I took a course on ancient Roman culture with an amazing professor, Dr. Robert Now,
2:23.7	and I read Caesar, Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy.
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