Alexander's Successors at War: The Spartan Adventurer

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🗓️ 6 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Tristan of The Ancients podcasts has published his 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 dominates the immediate aftermath of Alexander’s death.

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0:00.0	Hi, buddy. Welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. That time of the week when we go to one of our
0:04.8	sibling podcasts, so we're going to go look at the ancient snail going way back to ancient history
0:09.4	before even the rise of the Roman Empire. We're looking at Alexander. In fact, specifically,
0:14.1	we're looking at just what happened when Alexander died. Now, you'll know the ancient. Tristan is the
0:18.7	great presenter on the ancient. He arrived at History Hit as a work experience guy about three
0:23.7	years ago. His great passion, even then, was to tell the story of ancient history online in
0:29.2	podcast form on TV, but particularly the story of what happened after Alexander the Great died.
0:34.0	Now, I think of myself as a fan of history. Let me take. In fact, I yield to know what
0:40.5	in my love of history and particularly, you know, strange niche bits of it, but Tristan Hughes,
0:45.5	which everyone in the office calls him the Tristorian, has not only taken that podcast from zero to
0:51.2	hundreds of thousands of listens every week, but he has produced a book about what happened after
0:56.6	Alexander the Great died. His interest in this period is almost unhealthy. I'm going to be honest,
1:02.0	almost unhealthy. It's completely deranged, but good luck to him. Good luck to him because the world
1:06.3	needs more Tristan Hughes. It needs more Tristorians. And I'm so proud of him. Not only has he been the
1:11.6	holding on to the job of History Hit, not only has he built this massive podcast listen to
1:14.9	on the world, but he has now published his book. Thanks to you guys, thanks to you all folks,
1:20.5	listening to him and supporting him, you found a publisher for his book. His book is basically what
1:25.2	happened when Alexander the Great dies. Let me tell you, it makes gamers thrones like a game of
1:28.8	bridge. All right. It was insane. Violence spanning three constants, gigantic armies moving around,
1:35.6	trying to carve out global empires. It's a big deal. So the Tristorian's book is wonderful,
1:40.6	and also Tristan coming on his podcast. Tell us all about it. It's just as good. So everyone,
1:44.9	this will happen Alexander the Great died with our very interesting huge. If you wish to go and
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