70- Quite the Predicament

17/11/2024 10 min Temporada 6 Episodio 1

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We start off the reign of Antiochus III reviewing just how bad a situation the empire finds itself in. Not only have we seen the edges fall away, but now cronies are squabbling over how to squander the remainder...Sources for this episode: Bevan, E. R. (1902), The House of Seleucus (Vol. I). London: Edward Arthur. Burstein, S. (2022), Ptolemy III Euergetes ("Benefactor") I, king of Egypt, early 246 to 221 BCE. In: Oxford Classical Dictionary. The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica (2024), Ptolemy IV Philopator (online) (Accessed 29/04/2024). Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Antiochus III the Great (online) (Accessed 22/04/2024). Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Molon (online) (Accessed 29/04/2024). Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Ptolemy III Euergetes (online) (Accessed 29/04/2024). Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Ptolemy IV Philopator (online) (Accessed 29/04/2024).