That One Time When Alex Said Hey Guys, Figure It Out (The Wars of the Diadochi and the Hellenistic Period)

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

Liv Albert

Arts, Comedy, History

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Some more fun history time for you all! This time we are diving into the Wars of the Diadochi, well more like Alex dying and all the Greek rebellions and the Lamian War in this episode. Starting off a new subsection of episodes based on the Hellenistic series, because we all need some more Hellenistic lore in our lives!

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Sources: The Library by Diodorus of Sicily translated by Robin Waterfield, Alexander's Heirs: the age of the successors by Edward Anson.

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1:17.7	Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello and welcome back all you lovely, lovely nerds to Let's Talk About Myths, Baby.
1:23.1	You're here with me, Michaela Pangewish, your Hermes and exhausted student at the end of semester.
1:29.3	To talk about a time period which we don't often give much attention to. Did you guess that it was the Hellenistic period? Because you did, you get a cookie, you wonderful human beings, you? Yes.
1:34.6	The Hellenistic period, that very mysterious and not well-known period of time between Alex the O.K.'s
1:41.2	Death and Actium. I was originally planning on making this a six-episode
1:45.0	series, split into two that looks at the wars, the die doci and each of the major, there's a quotation
1:49.7	marks there, Hellenistic Kingdom, and sort of the aftershock and influences of the Hellenistic
1:55.2	period on the wider Mediterranean. But honestly, after spending considerable time on this, I literally could not figure out a way to do
2:04.3	the hellenistic period justice while keeping that format it just isn't possible okay well okay
2:12.8	it is possible but i don't think that it does this period justice to do it that way. The Hellenistic
2:19.2	period is often let out of any Greek history classes or Roman history, or if it is included,
2:25.0	it's very brief, you get a week on it, basically. It is a period that a whole lot of people just
2:31.8	don't seem to care about. That is such a disappointment and disservice to the world as a whole lot of people just don't seem to care about. That is such a disappointment and
2:36.2	disservice to the world as a whole because the Hellenistic period is just this wacky,
2:41.0	amazing, wonderfully amalgamist period of time. This is a period that is about the mixing of peoples
2:47.3	and cultures from all over the med. Everywhere where the Greeks go is just, I don't know,
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