Alexander's Successors at War: The Spartan Adventurer
The Ancients
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🗓️ 30 January 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It’s here! Today is the publication date of Tristan’s first book, Alexander’s Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years. Focussing in on 323 – 320 BC, the book tells the story of the tumultuous events that seized Alexander the Great’s empire immediately after this titanic figure breathed his last in June 323 BC. Today, we’re giving you a taster of what you can expect.
Sit back and relax as Tristan reads out an abridged chapter from the book (including a swift introduction). He tells the story of a Spartan mercenary captain called Thibron, who set forth from Crete with c.6,000 battle hardened mercenaries intend on forging his own Greco-Libyan empire in North Africa. Filled with several twists and turns the story is a symbol for the many fascinating events, and the larger than life cast, that dominate the immediate aftermath of Alexander’s death.
Order Tristan’s book today: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perdiccas-Years-323-Alexanders-Successors/dp/1526775115/ref=zg_bsnr_271237_68/260-7675295-7826601?pd_rd_i=1526775115&psc=1
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| 0:00.0 | It's the entrance on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and well I've been |
| 0:17.1 | banging on about it for long enough now. The book, my first book, all about what happened |
| 0:23.4 | following the death of Alexander the Great and the turmoil that immediately erupted is |
| 0:29.1 | it's called Alexander's Successes at War, the Perter Cousiers and for today's very special |
| 0:33.9 | podcast we at Ancient HQ we thought that I'd read out an abridged chapter from this book. One of the |
| 0:40.2 | many extraordinary stories of individuals from this huge cast of extraordinary figures that really |
| 0:46.8 | comes to the fore following the death of Alexander the Great and this chapter is all about not a |
| 0:53.4 | Macedonian not a Persian but a Spartan, a Spartan mercenary commander who with his own |
| 1:00.4 | band of brigands several thousand men strong attempted to forge his own empire in North Africa |
| 1:07.1 | in Libya near the modern day city of Benghazi in Syrinereca focusing in on the rich wealthy |
| 1:14.2 | ancient metropolis of Cyrene. Now enjoy as I talk you through the story of Thibarone it goes back |
| 1:20.8 | and forth, back and forth between three two three and three two two victories defeats humiliation |
| 1:27.2 | setbacks, revivals this campaign the story of Thibarone has got it old and I really wanted to |
| 1:33.3 | share it with you today so I do hope you enjoy and if you do enjoy please consider perhaps |
| 1:39.6 | having a look at the book we'll put a link in the description below. So that further ado here's |
| 1:45.7 | a version of a chapter from the new book Alexander's success as it will and I hope you enjoy. |
| 2:00.2 | Alexander the Great. This Macedonian king born more than two thousand years ago ranks among the |
| 2:06.5 | most famous figures in history and with good reason. In his short lifetime he forged one of the |
| 2:12.6 | largest empires the world had ever seen conquering a superpower and leaving the world changed forever |
| 2:19.3 | because of Alexander archaeologists have uncovered hallmarks of Hellenistic culture stretching from |
| 2:23.9 | the Mediterranean to the Indus. For better or for worse his achievements inspired many notable names |
| 2:30.8 | that followed him. Arthurian tales of Alexander became medieval best sellers, the whereabouts of his |
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