Hello and welcome to another regular episode of the Ancient Warfare magazine podcast.

Ancient warfare issue 141 is out.

So we're going to discuss it today. The topic of the issue is a war in Hellenistic Asia Minor.

So that's what we're discussing today.

We have a few questions to go on and I'm sure stuff will come up

in the meantime to keep us busy and our tongue's wagging. But let's start off with one of the

questions that came in from Patreon. The first one is from Brian who asks, to what degree

did Mithridates family dynasty, or so the dynasty of the Mithridates, presumably the sixth,

managed to balance between the various former Alexandrian generals with both his military powers and sort of keeping relationships going.

Murray, I think you've looked into that a bit.

Would you like to take it off?

I think it raises some other issues with Asia Minor in general,

which is that you've got...

So Mithridates of Kios is the satrap of Frigia.

He maintains that under Alexander's rule and then in

281 whilst the successes are fighting with one another for control of Asia Minor, which is essentially

the highway between mainland Greece and the interior of the former Persian Empire and to Syria

and what is now Iraq and Iran, basically is able to say, well, we're going to break away

and form our own kingdom in 281. They form their own kingdom in northern Cappadocia and Paphligonia.

And because the others are distracted,

they essentially are able to maintain that kingdom without too much trouble.

They have to ally with the Galatians, of course,

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