Century 7 of 13 · 200 - 31 BC
Rome arrives in the east, decides who rules which Greek city, and by 146 BC is the one deciding. Corinth burns and the culture conquers the conqueror.
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Rome arrives in the east in 200 BC, decides who rules which Greek city, and by 146 BC is the one deciding. Corinth burns and the culture conquers the conqueror.
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Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast
Rome declares war on Perseus in 171, the Third Macedonian War drags on, and the consul Lucius Aemilius Paulus destroys the royal army at Pydna in 168, ending the Antigonid dynasty and the Macedonian kingdom.
Part of Greeced Lightning
Sara and Sam discuss the Battle of Pydna in Total War: Rome II, with Plutarch, Livy and Polybius on the Macedonian War, plus layoffs, unions and war elephants.
Part of Ancient History Fangirl
With Liv Albert
Hadrian, the Roman emperor who commissioned Hadrian's Wall, combined an obsession with architecture and a passion for everything Greek to transform the city of Athens, as guest Liv Albert explains here.
Invited by the Aetolian League, Antiochus III invades mainland Greece in September 192 and declares war on Rome, is forced back to Asia, and meets Rome at Magnesia to decide the dominant Hellenistic power.
Part of The Ancients
With Tiziana D'Angelo, Kathryn Lomas
Paestum in southern Italy is home to some of the greatest ancient Greek temples; Dr Tiziana D'Angelo and Dr Kathryn Lomas guide Tristan Hughes from its Greek beginnings around 600 BC to takeover by Rome more than 300 years later.
With Simon Elliott
Tristan is joined again by Simon Elliott to talk about some of the great clashes between Greeks and Romans, from Cynoscephalae to Magnesia to Pydna, and how the forces evolved in armour, weapons and strategy to compete against each other.
With Amelia Brown
Occupied since around 3000 BC, Corinth's transition from a pagan, Greco-Roman state to a Christian one is tracked through surviving evidence; Dr Amelia Brown outlines the city's administration and Pausanias's account, a Greek travel writer of the second century AD.
Part of The Rest Is History
In the fourth and final instalment of their Cleopatra mini-series, Tom and Dominic discuss Octavian's propaganda and the war he waged against Antony and Cleopatra, ending in their ultimate demise.
Part of Dan Snow's History Hit
Dan asks whether the tall tales hold: Archimedes' weapons of war, said to include the Claw and a Death Ray, repelled a Roman army from Syracuse from 213 BC until the city fell.
Christopher Gribbin on the 1st and 2nd Illyrian Wars of 229-228 and 220-219 BC, Teuta the Pirate Queen and Demetrius of Pharos, and their role in setting Rome on a collision course with the Hellenistic world.
Part of Tides of History
The episode notes Rome barely bothered with the Greek east for most of its history, then suddenly laid low the two most powerful Hellenistic warrior-kings of the past century and became the Mediterranean's hegemonic power within ten years.
In the first episode of a four-part mini-series on Cleopatra, Tom and Dominic discuss her early life in Ptolemaic Egypt.
The Second Macedonian War, 200 to 197 BC: Philip V holds his own against Rome until Titus Quinctius Flamininus forces a showdown at Cynoscephalae that radically changes the balance of power in Greece.
In the second episode of their four-part Cleopatra mini-series, Tom and Dominic discuss her relationship with Julius Caesar and the role it played in the politics of Rome.
The Achaean League, on mostly amicable terms with Rome since 167, campaigns against Sparta, and through the brief Achaean War and the sack of Corinth in 146 Rome makes clear it alone decides Greece's destiny.
Part of Not another Greek History podcast!
The episode asks who called Cleopatra a whore and why the label stuck for 2,000 years, how many siblings she killed, how many of her brothers she married, and what she named her several children.
Part of Kings and Generals
From 214 to 146 BCE the Roman Republic dismantled Greece by exploiting rivalries between Macedon, the Aetolian League, the Achaean League, Pergamon, Rhodes and the Seleucids, and beating the phalanx at Cynoscephalae and Pydna.
This opens the series on the Macedonian Wars, crucial for the Roman republic and the Hellenic states, leading to the battles of Cynoscephalae and Pydna and the Greco-Roman world that followed.
After Cynoscephalae, Flamininus declares the freedom and autonomy of the Greeks at the Isthmian Games of 196, but resistance from the Aetolian League and Nabis of Sparta eventually draws Antiochus III into Europe.
The final episode of the Cleopatra series asks what really happened to Cleopatra's children, which child was raised by both Caesar and Octavian, and whether the Netflix 'Cleopatra' documentary came close to reality or was just ancient fan fiction.
The first episode of the Cleopatra series asks whether she was more Greek than Egyptian, describes Alexandria as the world's first city that never slept, and asks which ancient scientists deserve more credit than they ever got.
Part of Garner's Greek Mythology
When Greece became part of the Roman empire in 146 BC, the still-dominant Olympic gods had already begun a willful retreat from the lives of mankind that this episode tracks.
With Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Cleopatra: A Life', charts Cleopatra VII of the Macedonian dynasty founded by Ptolemy, from her ascension to the throne to her eventual death.
During the Illyrian Wars of 229-228 and 219 the Roman Republic intervenes in Greek affairs for the first time, and its swift defeats of Queen Teuta and Demetrius of Pharos draw the attention of Philip V.
An early documentary on the Roman - Seleucid Syrian War and the battles of Thermopylae and Magnesia, a conflict that reshaped the map of the Eastern Mediterranean in the II century BC.
Fifteen years after the Macedonian kingdom is abolished, Andriscus claims to be the lost heir of Perseus and invades Macedonia in 150, and the Fourth Macedonian War leads to a permanent Roman presence.
Defeat at Magnesia ends the war with Rome: Antiochus III gives up all territory north of the Taurus Mountains, owes an enormous indemnity, and his career ends abruptly in Elymais after 35 years on the throne.
The closing episode of Famous Macedonians recounts the last fight of the Greeks against the Romans through Perseus and Cleopatra, asking who the last Greek monarch was, who sided with the Romans, and when Greece's Roman occupation ended.
Kings and Generals' Roman - Macedonian Wars series concludes with the Third Macedonian War and the battle of Pydna, fought in 168 BC.
Kings and Generals' Roman - Macedonian Wars series continues with the Third Macedonian War and the battle of Callinicus, fought in 171 BC.
Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast
Gregorio Gariglio asks what really happened at the Battle of Pydna and whether the casualty figures the ancient sources give us for that battle are correct.
The manipular Roman legion, which fought the Carthaginian army, is matched against the Macedonian phalanx that Philip created, across the battles of Asculum, Heraclea, Cynoscephalae and Pydna.
Recorded outdoors in the Egyptian capital, the episode asks whether Cleopatra really died by snakebite or staged drama, what the Pantheon in Rome has to do with her final defeat, and whether her tomb's location is history's best-kept secret.
The Roman Republic and the Seleucid empire vie for control over Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in the War of Antiochus, fought at Thermopylae and Magnesia with a quarter of a million warriors.
Murray answers a twelve-year-old fan from Italy asking how many casualties there really were at Magnesia, where Roman sources claim 53,000 Seleucid dead against only 350 Romans.
A listener asks why the Successor Kingdoms' Generals commanded companion cavalry that, though it seemed to be the premier cavalry of its age and instrumental against the Persian empire, faired so poorly against the inferior Roman cavalry.
Part of History Unplugged Podcast
After beating the Persian empire and conquering the known world, Greeks who once dominated the Eastern Mediterranean ended up as slave tutors for the Romans or philosophers in their major cities; this episode asks why their armies faded.
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Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast · Panel discussions from Ancient Warfare Magazine; only the Greek episodes are indexed
With Owen Rees
With Marc de Santis
Part of The Rest Is History · Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook; only the Greek episodes are indexed
Part of History Unplugged Podcast · Scott Rank's call-in show and expert interviews; only the Greek episodes are indexed
Part of Tides of History · Patrick Wyman's survey of the deep past; only the Greek episodes are indexed
Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast · The three centuries between Alexander and Actium