The Worst Friendship Breakup of All Time (The Wars of the Diadochi and the Hellenistic Period)

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

Liv Albert

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We are back with the Wars of the Diadochi and finally Ptolemy gets his proper introduction. Join me today to see what goes on after the Lamian War, see who takes what sides, and who does or does not die.

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CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. I try to provide direct warnings when there is reference to anything with overtly traumatic themes but be aware that Greek mythology regularly features assault, death, and many other potentially triggering events.

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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1:16.4	Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello all and welcome back to a new episode of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby.
1:21.6	It's Michaela Pongowish again, back to bring you more lovely history content.
1:29.5	Last week, we looked at how Alexander the Great dropped dead, leaving his empire in nobody's hands, and left the Med to fall into absolute chaos.
1:32.8	We touched on a little bit of that chaos, but not much, because, turns out, I have followed
1:37.3	the path of Herodotus and can yap for ages about one little bit of history.
1:42.7	Not to say that the Lamian War was small, it was quite big in deciding
1:45.9	what would happen to Greece moving forward, but remember that Greece is still relatively small and
1:50.6	not actually that important when it comes to a giant empire. I love Greece. We all love Greece,
1:56.7	but the country has always been resource poor, and their biggest contribution was simply their culture.
2:02.0	Not to be little, that. That is important in its own right, but it's not the area of the ancient
2:07.5	med that has the most value technically. Alex's empire was flippin' massive. Like, I don't have a way
2:15.2	to describe just how massive it was, and all the different spaces it spanned from.
2:21.0	We're attacking Macedonia and Greece, the islands, all of Asia Minor and the previous Persian Empire going pretty far straight into India.
2:30.7	And then, of course, there was Egypt as well. Massive. Have we looked at, and we have looked
2:36.6	at one area so far, and not even a year into the 40-year period of the wars of the Diodokai.
2:42.8	Basically, we have a fuck ton to get through still, and of course, we aren't going to make it
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