092: The Seleucid Empire - Magnesia

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On invitation from the Aetolian League, Antiochus III invades the Greek mainland in September 192 and declares war against the Roman Republic. Though he held many victories under his belt, Rome proved to be a fiercer opponent than anticipated, forcing Antiochus to go on the defensive and take the fight back to Asia. A final confrontation on the plains of Magnesia (modern Manisa) would determine who was to be the dominant power of the Hellenistic world. Episode Notes: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/2023/11/27/092-the-seleucid-empire-magnesia/) Episode Transcript: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/092-the-seleucid-empire-magnesia-transcript.pdf) Social Media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/HellenisticPod) Facebook (www.facebook.com/hellenisticagepodcast/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/hellenistic_age_podcast/) Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/hellenisticagepodcast) Show Merchandise: Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/HellenisticAgePod) Redbubble (https://www.redbubble.com/people/HellenisticPod/shop?asc=u) Donations: Patreon (https://patreon.com/TheHellenisticAgePodcast) 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. Episode 92, the Salucid Empire, Magnesia. With the conclusion of the 5th Syrian War and the marriage between Cleopatra and Ptolemy
0:30.6	the 5th secured, Antiochus III was positioned at the gates of Europe by 195.
0:36.6	Between 195 to 192, Antiochus continued to launch expeditions into Thrace in the surrounding areas.
0:44.6	The newly built Lysimakia was given to his son Salukas to rule from as viceroy in the
0:49.8	western satrapies, but 194 saw the king seized territory from the Thracians on the European side of the
0:55.9	Bosphorus, thus liberating the Greeks living under their rule. This was also in the interest of
1:01.4	Byzantium, which controlled much of the access from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean,
1:06.2	and were under threat from Thracian attacks. Galatia too was brought under heel through a combination of
1:11.9	gifts and saber-rattling. In addition to his dealings with Ptolemy, Antaichus busied himself by
1:17.6	playing royal matchmaker with his other children. His daughter Antiochis was wed to Arirathis
1:23.3	the 4th of Capodokia, and he extended an invitation to have Eumenes II of Pergamon
1:28.7	marry his other daughter.
1:30.6	In a novel move for the dynasty, the king ordered that Prince Antiochus and Princess Laudique
1:36.2	were to be wed to one another.
1:38.5	While King Antiochus and Queen Laudique were often referred to as siblings in royal propaganda, this was the actual first
1:45.5	brother-sister marriage in the family's history, and the newlywed couple would produce a daughter
1:50.3	named Nisa shortly thereafter. Antiochus's success in diplomacy and warfare only reaffirmed
1:57.3	his role as the most powerful king in Asia. But this period was also quite politically
2:02.3	tense. Since the conference of Lysimakia in 196, the Seleucid Empire and the Roman Republic,
2:09.4	the two dominant powers of the Mediterranean world, were now in a proverbial Cold War. Each side
2:15.7	had different perspectives. For Antiochus, Greece was to be the buffer
2:19.5	between his empire and the Republic. Rome, on the other hand, believed that Antiochus should be contained
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