Conversations: The Empire is Back. . .and This Episode is the Seleucids w/ Dr. Talia Prussin

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Liv and Michaela speak with Dr. Talia Prussin about the Seleucid empire and the Hellenistic Period generally. Much shenanigans went down, and many discussions on which little guy is everyone's favourite.

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0:00.0	Oh, hi there. Live here, speaking from the future. If you are keen to support this podcast,
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0:34.1	Thanks and happy listening.
1:01.0	Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hey, y'all. It's Michael.
1:19.3	Hey, y'all. It's Michaela, just here to introduce you to this week's episode that we did with Dr. Talia Prusson.
1:23.2	It was recorded back in August, I want to say.
1:24.8	It's been a minute, basically.
1:29.9	Talia Prusson is an old professor of mine here at UBC. She is absolutely delightful. She was quite possibly one of, if not the favorite prof I've ever
1:39.0	had. She was just so much fun and just so full of information and so helpful. She's taught me several
1:47.1	classes. I loved her everyone. I loved doing Greek with her where it was just chaos every time.
1:54.3	But one day, you know, I walked into class and she was talking about her research and I was like,
1:59.5	you must come on the show and speak
2:01.3	about this. And she agreed. So thus we got her and all her information on the Saloo Kids and how
2:08.1	they did Empire during the Hellenistic series. You can probably tell that I was planning on having her be
2:15.4	one of our conversation guests for the Hellenistic series.
2:18.1	And since I have expanded that exponentially, you know, it's gone a little sideways in terms of
2:24.5	my planning. But that being said, I think it is incredibly important that you guys get this
2:28.5	information. Liv Talia and I were a little bit in chaos mode, which I think just happens when you have
2:35.9	three women all similar ages together with similar references.
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