Episode T11 – Euergetes

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Synopsis: Ongoing strife in Anatolia and Egypt allows Antiochus VII to campaign east against the Parthians. His early successes inspire hopes of a resurgent Seleucid Empire, hopes shattered by his unexpected death. “In Asia, Attalos III as soon as he came to the throne began to manage affairs in a way quite different from all the former kings; for they, by their clemency and kindness to their subjects, reigned prosperously and happily themselves and were a blessing to the kingdom; but this prince being of a cruel and bloody disposition oppressed his subjects with many slaughters and grievous calamities.” – Diodorus Siculus, The Historical Library, Book 35 “Ptolemy Physcon, when he saw that his sister Cleopatra (II) was so great an enemy to him, and could not revenge himself otherwise upon her, contrived a most abominable piece of villainy for that purpose. For, imitating the cruelty of Medeia, he murdered her son, begotten by himself, in Cyprus; the son was called Memphites, and was still a young boy.” – Diodorus Siculus, The Historical Library, Book 35 “(Queen) Laodice (of Cappadocia) had had six children of the male sex by King Ariarathes (V); she feared that she would not long remain in control of the kingdom once any of them grew up, so she resorted to murder, killing five of them by poison.” – Justin, Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 37 Map of Anatolia after the Treaty of Apamea (c. 188 BC): https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Anatolia.jpg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Scott. If you're a fan of the ancient world, please help us get the word out.
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0:13.0	Thanks again for listening.
0:15.0	I also wanted to mention that this episode deals with some particularly violent adult themes
0:21.0	that may not be suitable for children. Like pretty much everyone else in this story the early years of Atalos the second were defined by treachery and war.
0:47.3	In the year he was born 220 BC his father, King Atalos the first, had lost a lion's share of the Pergemine kingdom
0:56.8	to a brilliant Seleucid commander named Aqueous.
1:01.2	As mentioned back in episode T2, Akaus was a cousin of Antiochus the third.
1:07.0	He'd been charged with checking Pergimine power, while Antiochus dealt with the other crises that plagued his early reign.
1:16.0	Before too long, according to Polybius, Aqueus exercised Dominion throughout Asia on this side Taurus, while Atalos the first was
1:28.0	reduced within the limits of his ancestral domains and shut up within the walls of Pergamon.
1:35.0	Which is to say the Pergheimin kingdom was staggering on the ropes.
1:40.0	Then, as Polybius notes, Aqueus, puffed up by his good fortune, assumed the diadem, and adopted
1:49.8	the title of King.
1:52.2	Severing his Anatolian conquests from his cousin's
1:55.6	Seleucid Empire. It was a fairly predictable act of hubris and it started the
2:02.0	clock on his downfall. Relations between
2:06.1	Pergamon and the solucids were frequently contentious, but Atalos the
2:11.8	first knew that the new solleucid King, Antiochus the third, desperately needed a win.
2:19.0	He also knew that a distant Antiochus was much, much better than a way too close a chaos.
2:26.3	Enemies of enemies did the usual thing and, as Polybius relates, in 217, Antiochus crossed Mount Taurus and after making a treaty of
2:37.6	alliance with King Atollos, entered upon the war against Akais.
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