An Interbellum Period That is Just as Confusing as You’d Expect (Hellenistic Period and the Wars of the Diadochi)
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
Liv Albert
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today we are looking through the year 318/17 BCE, the interbellum year between the first and second Wars of the Diadochi. New alliances are made, people die, many a siege happen. Keep an ear out for the Crow snores, it's rare that he snores but he graced you all today.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey nerds, quick bit of enormous news. I am so excited to say that I have a new book coming out in |
| 0:06.3 | June of this year, and not only is it just a new book, but it is a fully illustrated retelling |
| 0:12.0 | of The Odyssey. It's aimed at children 9 to 12, but don't let that fool you. It's a shortened |
| 0:17.4 | retelling, but I kept it true to the original in every way that matters. |
| 0:22.5 | Check out the link in the episode's description for where to pre-order or just ask your local independent bookstore. |
| 0:27.9 | Thank you. The Hello, all, and welcome back to Let's Talk About Myths Baby. It's Michaela Panguish, your resident |
| 1:10.1 | in history nerd, here to tell you more |
| 1:11.5 | about the wars of the Diochai, that delightfully fun period of time between Alex's death and the |
| 1:16.5 | establishment of the various Hellenistic empires. The start of the Hellenistic period, really. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm currently writing this on a ferry, heading to the island to visit some family, and that is not |
| 1:26.5 | at all thematic, but it's a really good |
| 1:28.1 | environment to just settle into the workflow and get some things done. Didn't expect that, but hey, |
| 1:33.5 | here we are. So what happened last time? Paredicus had died and our guy, Ptolemy, rolled into the scene to |
| 1:39.4 | make friends with his soldiers. That all seemed to go down well. And then we had to deal with the rest |
| 1:44.0 | of Pricchus' allies around Asia. Eumenes was dealt with by just letting the guy the soldiers. That all seemed to go down well. And then we had to deal with the rest of |
| 1:44.2 | Predictas' allies around Asia. Eumenes was dealt with by just letting the guy become friends with the new head guy in Asia, Antiginus. We heard a little about Perticus's brother-in-law, Adelis, so I'm sure that will come back into the picture. We had a little moment with the OG source of the Times, Hieronymus, so that was cool. What a loss, man. I bet that shit was really |
| 2:03.6 | interesting. God, the amount of sources that are lost are, is actually pretty astounding and heartbreaking for me, but that's because for some reason I love all those old dead guys and their old bland writing. It's fun. For all of us, I like to tell myself, but I've been wrong before. |
| 2:19.8 | Or maybe that's why I'm here, to make it not so bland. There was something about Antpatter in Europe, |
| 2:24.6 | and the narrative ended with Toll me closing off the access to Egypt from Asia. It was a fun |
| 2:30.1 | little lap to the end of the First War, and now we are entering an interbellum, an interwar |
| 2:34.5 | period of this time. We got some foundations to set, some people to die, some new seats of power, |
| 2:40.5 | and the ever-shifting balances that happen when all the men of this period... Are there women |
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