Hi there, you're listening to The Hellenistic Age podcast. Interview episode, The Flight of Salukas and Dynastic Propaganda with Angus Jacobson.

Hello everyone.

Today I have the pleasure of welcoming onto the podcast Angus Jacobson, a PhD candidate with the University of Tasmania. His research focuses on the relationship between the Seleukid and Antigonid

dynasties during the early Hellenistic period. And he has joined us on the show to talk about just

that. Firstly, I'd just like to say thank you so much for taking the time to come on the podcast.

Thank you so much for having me, Derek. It's a pleasure to be here and a long, long time aspiration as well.

Well, I'm glad to hear. And could you tell the audience about your background and maybe what

the focus of your research is exactly all about beyond the two dynasties? Yeah, absolutely.

As you say, I am a PhD student from the University of Tasmania, that small little island off the south of Australia that no one really knows about.

It's sort of mysterious, sort of like Narnia of Australia.

But what I focus on is the relationship between the Salukids and the Antikinids in the early Hellenistic age.

So what that means is I trace the relationship between

those two dynasties from the flight of Seleucus, which we're talking about today, to the death

of Antichinus Gannatus, where the alliance sort of falls apart a little bit. And then after a brief

intermission, it comes back. But given the scope of my thesis, it needs to be set to that period. But essentially what I'm

looking at in regards to this alliance is how the two dynasties used alliances as a mechanism of

power, so how they controlled their empire. So mostly it's an international policy focus,

in a sense.

It's looking at how the two dynasties use the alliance to control their empires, both internally and externally as well.

And you might be wondering, like, how do we know about the alliance?

People might have talked or seen references to the alliance at Rossus, which happens in the wake of Ipsis, Demetrius and Seleucus joined together, join their houses in marriage through Seleucus's marriage to Stratoniki.

But many people may not know that Antigonus Gannatus, the son of Demetrius,oketes, and Antiochus, the first, the son of

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