More like the most pragmatic. He was the only one who understood that going all-in for the whole Empire was suicidal and pointless - Alexander's Empire was too big to govern effiiciently, none of the diadochi had the proper legitimacy to claim their rule over it - and even if when they succeeded, they would just be another usurper that will end up stabbed in the back. Looking at you Seleucus. Poke poke. Better play was to hold the richest area of the Mediteranean and rule from there in relative peace. He even had Alexander's body's stolen from Perdiccas and entombed in Alexandria - this was, in Macedonian culture of the time, the source of legitimacy for the succession of the King of Macedon - which is probably he did it, so that no one else could claim it.
The fact that Alexander's secretary was out there winning battles implies the man was such a good general that those close to him just absorbed tactical skill by osmosis.
Just had a biology exam and I'm sorry to correct you but he absorbed the tactical skill not by osmosis but by diffusion as (regrettably) tactical skill is not water
Pyrrhus literally made a cameo here. He's the main antagonist of the show "Rome: Pyrrhic Wars" and appears as a cameo in "Ancient Greece: Diadochi" All part of the Classical Antiquity Cinematic Universe.
Haha yes. I'm living 10 minutes away from the village of Evropos, built on the same location as ancient Evropos, were Seleucus was born. He's very well known and celebrated here.
The Antigonid and the Seleucid fanboy in me never has a good time when watching diadochi videos but I can’t stop, this period of history is so f****** cool
A correction is needed regarding the death of Seleucus. Ptolemy Keraunos was NOT ruling Makedonia, he had come to the court of Lysimachus as a refugee to join his sister Lysandra (who married Lysimachus son Agathocles) and half sister Arsinoe II, Lysimachus’ wife. Arsinoe’s scheming led to the execution of Agathocles, and so Ptolemy Keraunos and Lysandra fled to the court of Seleucus just before his invasion of Thrace. P. Keraunos personally murdered Seleucus in his tent. Some notable prophecies surrounding this, according to Appian of Alexandria’s “Syriaca”, are how when Seleucus visited the oracle of Didyma early in Alexander’s conquests he was told “Do not hurry back to Europe, Asia will be much better for you”. Appian also quotes an unnamed oracle who told Seleucus “If you keep away from Argos you will reach your allotted year, but if you approach that place you will die before your time.” Seleucus did his best to avoid every town named Argos, but he decided to stop at a grand altar in a temple, attributed by the natives to the Argonauts. Due to its origin, people in the town called that temple Argos. Seleucus was allegedly murdered by Ptolemy Keraunos while learning about this from the locals.
Watching all this Kings & Generals meticulous movement of armies and depictions of battles made the spinny character images a refreshing touch lmao. Great vid man I love this period and the Diadochi in general
I have to agree, this is one of the most interesting eras of history. Most succession wars don't break out so soon after the fall of a great empire. Add to this everyone pretty much knew each other and all learned from Alexander.
And Philip. Antipater and Antigonus didn't start as Alexanders generals, but as Philips. They went from being generals in collapsing city states, to generals for the hegemon of Greece and later on Generals in the biggest and the strongest empire in the world. They were much more experienced than Alex. The other big players (Lysimachus, Ptolemy, Seuleuc, Perdiccas, Craterus?) were educated at the Macedonian court in Pella alongside Alex as a part of many Philips reforms.
th-cam.com/video/mgDYMBc8W6I/w-d-xo.html They came after the Seleucid Empire who inherited their lands from Alexander’s conquest of the Achaemenid Persians. The Parthians would be succeeded by the Sassanid Empire, the last Persian successor-state before the rise of Islam…
I like the use of images of diadochi where their likeness was recorded on statues, or made up by later artists. Also love the factoids about them, with some serious and some funny.
A large empire that is split between generals who fight and conquer each other until only three kingdoms remain, trying to reunify the land... where have I seen this before?
14:25 This isn't accurate. Ptolemy Keraunos wasn't the king of Macedon until after he assassinated Seleucus. After Keraunos fled from Egypt, he went to Lysimachus' court, but after some time they fell out and Keraunos had to flee again. He joined Seleucus and his army and surprisingly, despite Ptolemy Keraunos personality being rather abrasive and hot-tempered, he became a friend of Seleucus and gained his trust. On their way to Macedon, Seleucus was about to be acclaimed as the king of Macedon but one morning he was invited by Ptolemy Keraunos on a hunting trip. Keraunos literally stabbed Seleucus in the back and rushed to Macedon, where he was proclaimed king. His head was being paraded on a spear 2 years later by the invading gauls. Also, Cassander was actually a really successful and capable king, who did much to rebuild and develop the Macedonian kingdom. His execution of the royal heir and consort was from our perspective, a straight up dick move, but from diadochi perspective, it was a sound strategic move considering the civil war and faction politics in Macedon. Some scholars even say Cassander is a king that's on the same level as Philip II based on his achievements. We forget that Macedon was exhausted and depopulated after the great campaigns.
I remember a book on Ancient Warfare that discussed warfare up until the fall of the Roman Empire, it said that the period of the Diadochi was essentially liked a super-sized version of the Greek city-states: each kingdom or territory was too weak to conquer the others successfully but also was too strong to be conquered by another.
First, does anyone here knows the manga Historie? It’s centered around Alexander’s rise and the life of Eumenes. And second, this whole thing kinda reminds me of the Han empire collaps, you know, rebellions, regional warlords and kinda figure head, although Alexander the fourth might not really fit this description. In the end, we have a few powerful warlords, Seleucus= Cao Cao, the most powerful ones, Ptolemaios= Liu Bei, the pretenders and lastly Lysimachus/ Kassander= Sun Quan. I know it’s not a perfect comparison, but I hope you can see my point.
WasteMan Lee Historie is definitely good, it’s about Eumenese and rn the Rise of Alexander. There is another manga named Kingdom which is about The Qin Wars of Unifying China from the Warring States Period. Both of these are solid and amazing
@@user-eb7pe9bp2q kingdom is awesome I just wish the fan translators would stick to the Chinese names. The Ravages of Time is an amazing Chinese manhua about the fall of the Han Dynasty.
OMG!!! I’ve been saying the same thing about how the Wars of the Diadochi would be the perfect basis for a “GoT”-type show!!! Great minds think alike!!!
As someone who is recently become fascinated by this period, this is a very good video explaining it, also I love the little intros for each major player
Well technically Eunemes didnt betray Antigonos. When he accepted deal he convinced messanger to change oath slightly instead of swearing loyalty to Antigonos he and his men swore loyalty to Argeads (rulling dynasty). Dynasty made of baby, mentally disabled man (halfbrother of Alexander) And Olympias (mother of Alexander) Who was in greece and Eunemes was one of few successors who was friendly with her. So Eunemes swore to do what he thinks is best for Royal family . And he did.
Man, I been watching your videos since the ranking of the Roman Emperors and this is one of your best. Recently I began a campaing with Macedon in Rome II Total War and this gives so much context, thank you.
The fighting and the differences among the ancient Greeks ultimately led to their downfall. So many wars between the successor states weakened them enough, for the Romans and the Parthians to start conquering them
The funniest part is that Kraterus, possibly the best of Alexander's junior generals, the man who took the place of Parmenion as the commander of the left flank at the battle of Hydaspes, LOST TO A FUCKING SECRETARY AND DIED.
Dumbass I am I didn't realize I'd be walking into Historie spoilers, but then again I'll be ancient whenever that manga gets finished. Good video as always bro.
It's a shame this period isnt adapted into tv series / novels. I guess execs / authors assume readers will be turned off by this new setting? They rather set their stories in a pseudo-british/germanic medieval period than explore new characters and cultures 🤷♂️
First of all, great video! I personally would like to see an ancient game of thrones during the crisis of the third century. Maybe you could make a video on it too.
Sure Alexander didn't exactly plan his successor effectively. However, the fact that he held his army and kingdom together while leading this den of vipers all over the world proves his claim to "the great" I mean clearly one of these usurping weasels would have been eager to backstab a lesser king before they made it through Asia minor.
Indian campaign was grossly overlooked. Selecus fought the mighty mauryas there. A treaty was finally signed to give up anymore claims to Indian lands and in exchange Selecus was given 500 war elephants by emperor Chandragupta. Selecus handed his Greek daughters hand in marriage to the mauryan emperor. He took those 500 elephants to battle of ispus and finally won against Antigus.
Yeah, and? There were several conflicts overlooked. It's a summary of the Wars of the Diadochi, not Seleukos' Wars, or has anything to do with India. Those are different topics.
More like: Rome happened and they all got rofl stomped in sequence, in a round about way because Pyrrhus started a war with both Rome and Carthage setting off a collission course between the later two.
Hey, thank you for doing this. This is a super glossed over period in history, most textbooks just go "So Alexander the Great Died and then Julius Caesar took Egypt" without mentioning how Rome conquered the Greek world slowly and methodically until reaching the Middle East and Egypt and that also ignores the states that formed in the wake of Alexander's death. People like to say the Ptolemies were the last Egyptians, yadda yadda, which is wrong, they were all Greek, just like how no one counts the Seleucid Empire as a "Persian" Empire. Like it goes Median, Achaemenid, *SKIPS SELEUCID* Arsacid, Sassanids, *ISLAMIC CONQUESTS, ignoring the Arab rulers, *Ikhanate of the Mongols, who aren't generally counted and then, bam, Safavids, the real "Persians", despite their leaders being Azeris...anyways, I ramble, but I say that to point out that you actually gave credit and mention to regimes that are literally pasted over, despite them being super important. You should do more like these. One on the Islamic Conquest of the Iberian Peninsula would be fun, since history books go "Ok so the Muslims beat the Visigoths, and then Charles Martel beats them but goes back to France, then in the 1400s the Portuguese, Castile, Leon, and Aragon reconquer the entire peninsula with no mention of the multiple regimes and slow wars that came and went."
5:07 You forgot to mentioned how Antigonos rewarded the Silver Shields for betraying Eumenes - he had them sent East to Arachosia with instructions to stand the Silver Shields down and assign its remnants to guard remote border forts until they all died or retired.
I have two submissions for Game of Thrones style of History: invasion of the Sea Peoples/fall of Bronze Age, and Post-Roman Western Europe from 476-850AD
Amazing video :) I've long looked for a perfect Diadochi video with everything important but that isn't as long as the 3 hour episodes of Kings and Generals 😅 And love the Cards to introduce new players to the audience 😂 Well, Many Subscribers to you good sir 🕵🏼🎩🙂
Do you happen to know how Seleucus was assassinated? I haven't been able to find any specific details about how the assassination happened. Was he stabbed, poisoned or captured and executed?
Dan Carlin has a cool short Hardcore History episode on this (and the fall of the Roman Republic, which btw is more interesting than the Roman Empire imo)
A suggestion for representing people whose likeness didn't survive to the modern day: stick figures. Imo, using just the name makes me think it's a label for something on a map, and not a human, if that makes sense.
Please tell me I'm not crazy. I KNOW FOR A APOLLO-DAMNED FACT someone made a parody of a Brandon Rogers video using the Diadochi factions of TW Rome 2 and now I can't find it anymore. Crazypills or did the video disappear?
I have a feeling the wars of the diadochi were far bloodier than Alexander's campaigns. They degenerated into attrition warfare in the end costing who knows how many lives. Nevermind civilian deaths.
You have to admire Demetrius and Antigonus for their unstoppable ambition. They always seemed to bounce back after defeat and win new victories and titles
Ptolemy is the most funny Diadochi. Dude basically chilled in Egypt for a whole time.
More like the most pragmatic. He was the only one who understood that going all-in for the whole Empire was suicidal and pointless - Alexander's Empire was too big to govern effiiciently, none of the diadochi had the proper legitimacy to claim their rule over it - and even if when they succeeded, they would just be another usurper that will end up stabbed in the back. Looking at you Seleucus. Poke poke.
Better play was to hold the richest area of the Mediteranean and rule from there in relative peace. He even had Alexander's body's stolen from Perdiccas and entombed in Alexandria - this was, in Macedonian culture of the time, the source of legitimacy for the succession of the King of Macedon - which is probably he did it, so that no one else could claim it.
The fact that Alexander's secretary was out there winning battles implies the man was such a good general that those close to him just absorbed tactical skill by osmosis.
I mean, I believe it.
Bro everyone literally tried to copy everything he did in the hopes of achieving what he had, even his hairstyle 😂
@@billychops1280 yeah, like when Pompey changed his looks to look more boyish like Alexander.
Just had a biology exam and I'm sorry to correct you but he absorbed the tactical skill not by osmosis but by diffusion as (regrettably) tactical skill is not water
@@Sam-tc8ic Ah, why thank you.
Pretty much summed up by "Everyone thought they cared more about alexanders idea for the empire. They all were lying".
Seleucos got pretty close
It's because Alexander doesn't have any idea for the empire in the first place.
@@velstadtvonausterlitz2338 He did, but something happened that ruined it.
He died.
What was alexanders idea for the empire?
@@septimiusseverus343 what was it?
Every show should introduce new characters by pausing events and playing jaunty elevator music
I personally found it very annoying.
Id remember a lot more character names, that's for sure 👍
They would need the descriptions of each character to be as unhelpful and vague as possible for me to be happy, if they implemented it
@@Thomas-u8q HOW DARE YOU ITS MY FAVORITE PART
It helps you remember their names and why they are important (or not)
Pyrrhus literally made a cameo here. He's the main antagonist of the show "Rome: Pyrrhic Wars" and appears as a cameo in "Ancient Greece: Diadochi"
All part of the Classical Antiquity Cinematic Universe.
deserve more likes
All you have to do is look at Seleucus's statue to know he was a gigachad
but seriously he looks so sigma there lmfao
Haha yes. I'm living 10 minutes away from the village of Evropos, built on the same location as ancient Evropos, were Seleucus was born. He's very well known and celebrated here.
The Antigonid and the Seleucid fanboy in me never has a good time when watching diadochi videos but I can’t stop, this period of history is so f****** cool
A correction is needed regarding the death of Seleucus. Ptolemy Keraunos was NOT ruling Makedonia, he had come to the court of Lysimachus as a refugee to join his sister Lysandra (who married Lysimachus son Agathocles) and half sister Arsinoe II, Lysimachus’ wife. Arsinoe’s scheming led to the execution of Agathocles, and so Ptolemy Keraunos and Lysandra fled to the court of Seleucus just before his invasion of Thrace. P. Keraunos personally murdered Seleucus in his tent.
Some notable prophecies surrounding this, according to Appian of Alexandria’s “Syriaca”, are how when Seleucus visited the oracle of Didyma early in Alexander’s conquests he was told “Do not hurry back to Europe, Asia will be much better for you”. Appian also quotes an unnamed oracle who told Seleucus “If you keep away from Argos you will reach your allotted year, but if you approach that place you will die before your time.” Seleucus did his best to avoid every town named Argos, but he decided to stop at a grand altar in a temple, attributed by the natives to the Argonauts. Due to its origin, people in the town called that temple Argos. Seleucus was allegedly murdered by Ptolemy Keraunos while learning about this from the locals.
Watching all this Kings & Generals meticulous movement of armies and depictions of battles made the spinny character images a refreshing touch lmao. Great vid man I love this period and the Diadochi in general
I have to agree, this is one of the most interesting eras of history. Most succession wars don't break out so soon after the fall of a great empire. Add to this everyone pretty much knew each other and all learned from Alexander.
And Philip. Antipater and Antigonus didn't start as Alexanders generals, but as Philips. They went from being generals in collapsing city states, to generals for the hegemon of Greece and later on Generals in the biggest and the strongest empire in the world.
They were much more experienced than Alex.
The other big players (Lysimachus, Ptolemy, Seuleuc, Perdiccas, Craterus?) were educated at the Macedonian court in Pella alongside Alex as a part of many Philips reforms.
Ona side note, Spartokos III was chilling all along in Crimea, fighting Legians, Sirakenoi and Scythians every now & then...
I like to imagine he didn't find out about any of this till like half way through.
He was like "WTF!!!"
We all cried when Eumenes died right?
Eumenes was such an unexpected player
My man Eumenes he didn't deserved that
There is a fantastic manga called Historie about the life of Eumenes. Highly recommended
@@SeanHiruki I was thinking of that. Its made by the same mangaka who did PARASYTE THE MAXIM (Which was incredible)
I finished my drink… of water.
A proper end to Alexander’s madness
He had his 15 minutes
Could you do a video on the Parthians? They're always just a foe of the Romans, no one takes the time to explain their thing.
Cataphract bois
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They came after the Seleucid Empire who inherited their lands from Alexander’s conquest of the Achaemenid Persians. The Parthians would be succeeded by the Sassanid Empire, the last Persian successor-state before the rise of Islam…
Watch yore history he has like a 2 hour documentary on them.
@@MrAwrsomeness agreed, great channel
To be fair, Parthian Empire seem to be in more Civil Wars than Roman prior to the disaster of the third century.
The video we've all been waiting for, THANK YOU. Next stop: rating all Hellenistic kings!
Video length is 2:00:00
I like the use of images of diadochi where their likeness was recorded on statues, or made up by later artists. Also love the factoids about them, with some serious and some funny.
Is it a coincidence that the Epilogue starts in 14:53?
WOAH WOAH WE DONT TALK ABOUT THAT
A large empire that is split between generals who fight and conquer each other until only three kingdoms remain, trying to reunify the land... where have I seen this before?
Three Kingdoms
The chinese are so original 🙄 jkjk XD
Cao Cao is Seleucus but Chinese
@@zan4336 holy shit literally. Seleucus was captain too that is is so funny.
The war of the Three Kingdoms is the best example of a Chinese cheap version of the original product, tradition we see until these days...
(joke)
14:25 This isn't accurate. Ptolemy Keraunos wasn't the king of Macedon until after he assassinated Seleucus. After Keraunos fled from Egypt, he went to Lysimachus' court, but after some time they fell out and Keraunos had to flee again. He joined Seleucus and his army and surprisingly, despite Ptolemy Keraunos personality being rather abrasive and hot-tempered, he became a friend of Seleucus and gained his trust. On their way to Macedon, Seleucus was about to be acclaimed as the king of Macedon but one morning he was invited by Ptolemy Keraunos on a hunting trip. Keraunos literally stabbed Seleucus in the back and rushed to Macedon, where he was proclaimed king.
His head was being paraded on a spear 2 years later by the invading gauls.
Also, Cassander was actually a really successful and capable king, who did much to rebuild and develop the Macedonian kingdom. His execution of the royal heir and consort was from our perspective, a straight up dick move, but from diadochi perspective, it was a sound strategic move considering the civil war and faction politics in Macedon. Some scholars even say Cassander is a king that's on the same level as Philip II based on his achievements. We forget that Macedon was exhausted and depopulated after the great campaigns.
Everyone: Fighting each other. Ptolemy: Can you all just chill out?
I remember a book on Ancient Warfare that discussed warfare up until the fall of the Roman Empire, it said that the period of the Diadochi was essentially liked a super-sized version of the Greek city-states: each kingdom or territory was too weak to conquer the others successfully but also was too strong to be conquered by another.
And so the ptolomeic family circle has begun
I’m here for it, Spectrum, now onto the video…
Where can we enter in contact with you like e-mail also we stole your king though you took him back
First, does anyone here knows the manga Historie? It’s centered around Alexander’s rise and the life of Eumenes. And second, this whole thing kinda reminds me of the Han empire collaps, you know, rebellions, regional warlords and kinda figure head, although Alexander the fourth might not really fit this description. In the end, we have a few powerful warlords, Seleucus= Cao Cao, the most powerful ones, Ptolemaios= Liu Bei, the pretenders and lastly Lysimachus/ Kassander= Sun Quan. I know it’s not a perfect comparison, but I hope you can see my point.
Is there actually a manga on this? Sounds interesting ngl, I may have to start to read it
WasteMan Lee Historie is definitely good, it’s about Eumenese and rn the Rise of Alexander. There is another manga named Kingdom which is about The Qin Wars of Unifying China from the Warring States Period. Both of these are solid and amazing
@@user-eb7pe9bp2q Reading Kingdom right now. Awesome stuff. Will check out Historie afterwards too.
@@user-eb7pe9bp2q kingdom is awesome I just wish the fan translators would stick to the Chinese names. The Ravages of Time is an amazing Chinese manhua about the fall of the Han Dynasty.
Historie is one of the best
OMG!!! I’ve been saying the same thing about how the Wars of the Diadochi would be the perfect basis for a “GoT”-type show!!! Great minds think alike!!!
As someone who is recently become fascinated by this period, this is a very good video explaining it, also I love the little intros for each major player
*Pyrrhus is mentioned*
"Huh, I sense a terrible foreboding coming from the West. I'm sure it won't affect the Macedonian successor states tho"
This way of teaching history is very underrated, thoroughly enjoyed it haha
Well technically Eunemes didnt betray Antigonos.
When he accepted deal he convinced messanger to change oath slightly instead of swearing loyalty to Antigonos he and his men swore loyalty to Argeads (rulling dynasty).
Dynasty made of baby, mentally disabled man (halfbrother of Alexander)
And Olympias (mother of Alexander)
Who was in greece and Eunemes was one of few successors who was friendly with her.
So Eunemes swore to do what he thinks is best for Royal family . And he did.
I love these high quality animations.
Man, I been watching your videos since the ranking of the Roman Emperors and this is one of your best. Recently I began a campaing with Macedon in Rome II Total War and this gives so much context, thank you.
Only Alexander can be so awesome that even his personal secretary is a badass.
You became my favorite youtuber in such a short amount of time
The fighting and the differences among the ancient Greeks ultimately led to their downfall. So many wars between the successor states weakened them enough, for the Romans and the Parthians to start conquering them
Title should be: How to waste an Empire in 17 years.
This is actually really cool, and I’ve never ever heard of it until now
antigonas seriously didn’t know when to call it quits
Man... There's hot spots in history where there's so many incredible, legendary figures all at once, and this is one of those moments.
Roman civil war, and the crisis of the third century.
This is your best video so far and it really deserves way more views
I got a Hellenistic history exam tomorrow and this is solid review. Thank you🙏 all the names r clicking now.
good video you should make a video on the 1st and 2nd bulgarian empires
And Odoacer's Kingdom after the West fell
Yo, what's the elevator music playing whenever someone is introduced?
Roxana was Alexander IV's mother...
Olympias was his grandmother ( Mother of Alexander the Great )
Bro is that the amorous background club music at the start.
take a shot every time there's a pause introducing someone
Ptolemy K killed Selucus before becoming king in Macedon. avenging Lysimichas was his reason for becoming king of Thrace.
The funniest part is that Kraterus, possibly the best of Alexander's junior generals, the man who took the place of Parmenion as the commander of the left flank at the battle of Hydaspes, LOST TO A FUCKING SECRETARY AND DIED.
Dumbass I am I didn't realize I'd be walking into Historie spoilers, but then again I'll be ancient whenever that manga gets finished. Good video as always bro.
And the Rome happened. Sums this up pretty well
Well, at least Carthagians put up a good fight for years.
very good, very good
It's a shame this period isnt adapted into tv series / novels. I guess execs / authors assume readers will be turned off by this new setting? They rather set their stories in a pseudo-british/germanic medieval period than explore new characters and cultures 🤷♂️
every historical show or movie is in fucking england
First of all, great video! I personally would like to see an ancient game of thrones during the crisis of the third century. Maybe you could make a video on it too.
I made a presentation about this for school with the informations from this video
I will perform Tomorrow
Well then, good luck with your performance! Hopefully, the information from this video proved to be useful.
@@spectrum1140 i performed 2 hours ago it was great my teacher said he didnt know any of this
When I read Mary Renault’s Funeral Games I had the same GoT idea.
Spectrum, you are forgetting about Parthia and Greco-Bactria!
Great video for an undercovered topic. Well done!
i like the music
Sure Alexander didn't exactly plan his successor effectively. However, the fact that he held his army and kingdom together while leading this den of vipers all over the world proves his claim to "the great" I mean clearly one of these usurping weasels would have been eager to backstab a lesser king before they made it through Asia minor.
I'm suprised by how alexander or any one of these generals dint get poisoned or murdered while they where sailing too asia minor
Indian campaign was grossly overlooked. Selecus fought the mighty mauryas there. A treaty was finally signed to give up anymore claims to Indian lands and in exchange Selecus was given 500 war elephants by emperor Chandragupta. Selecus handed his Greek daughters hand in marriage to the mauryan emperor. He took those 500 elephants to battle of ispus and finally won against Antigus.
Sadly lack of sources means no study can really be done without conjecture
@@ChevyChase301 there are many sources for this
Yeah, and? There were several conflicts overlooked. It's a summary of the Wars of the Diadochi, not Seleukos' Wars, or has anything to do with India. Those are different topics.
Nice insightful video! Keep up the good work sir!
More like: Rome happened and they all got rofl stomped in sequence, in a round about way because Pyrrhus started a war with both Rome and Carthage setting off a collission course between the later two.
I think that u could make more detailed video, u could've made a whole series about this period.
Hey, thank you for doing this. This is a super glossed over period in history, most textbooks just go "So Alexander the Great Died and then Julius Caesar took Egypt" without mentioning how Rome conquered the Greek world slowly and methodically until reaching the Middle East and Egypt and that also ignores the states that formed in the wake of Alexander's death.
People like to say the Ptolemies were the last Egyptians, yadda yadda, which is wrong, they were all Greek, just like how no one counts the Seleucid Empire as a "Persian" Empire. Like it goes Median, Achaemenid, *SKIPS SELEUCID* Arsacid, Sassanids, *ISLAMIC CONQUESTS, ignoring the Arab rulers, *Ikhanate of the Mongols, who aren't generally counted and then, bam, Safavids, the real "Persians", despite their leaders being Azeris...anyways, I ramble, but I say that to point out that you actually gave credit and mention to regimes that are literally pasted over, despite them being super important.
You should do more like these. One on the Islamic Conquest of the Iberian Peninsula would be fun, since history books go "Ok so the Muslims beat the Visigoths, and then Charles Martel beats them but goes back to France, then in the 1400s the Portuguese, Castile, Leon, and Aragon reconquer the entire peninsula with no mention of the multiple regimes and slow wars that came and went."
The Pyrrhus cameo is crazy.
5:07 You forgot to mentioned how Antigonos rewarded the Silver Shields for betraying Eumenes - he had them sent East to Arachosia with instructions to stand the Silver Shields down and assign its remnants to guard remote border forts until they all died or retired.
I have two submissions for Game of Thrones style of History: invasion of the Sea Peoples/fall of Bronze Age, and Post-Roman Western Europe from 476-850AD
Its like three kingdoms era china but in the middle east
Yep
Eumenes really got done dirty. He is clearly best boy.
Everyone always forgets Eumenes. He was the best of them.
Helenistic king tier list?
Lol u posted this video on my birthday
Hi, whats up Mr. Spectrum. Does your channel have any discord server, I would like to have a talk and a bier next to talking about the Roman Empire
Amazing video :)
I've long looked for a perfect Diadochi video with everything important but that isn't as long as the 3 hour episodes of Kings and Generals 😅
And love the Cards to introduce new players to the audience 😂
Well,
Many Subscribers to you good sir 🕵🏼🎩🙂
Ptolemy was the smart one. Setting himself up in that tight little corner in Egypt where nobody could outflank him.
Roman invasion of Arabia 26 BC?
Do you happen to know how Seleucus was assassinated? I haven't been able to find any specific details about how the assassination happened. Was he stabbed, poisoned or captured and executed?
Eumenes was a weirdly great general for not having much military experience beforehand.
What's the elevator music for this
Very interesting topic.
why is there no Musou game of this period?
Dan Carlin has a cool short Hardcore History episode on this (and the fall of the Roman Republic, which btw is more interesting than the Roman Empire imo)
What a coincidence I was just thinking about rome
When come come the it was the end of kids fun
Well done! Not easy to cover! I didn't know Selucid was killed in Macedonia by Ptolemys son!
Antigonus and Demetrius were the most worthy in my opinion. Leaving Ptolemy to rule Egypt.
A suggestion for representing people whose likeness didn't survive to the modern day: stick figures.
Imo, using just the name makes me think it's a label for something on a map, and not a human, if that makes sense.
0:48 Also the Baktrians/Indo-Greeks who managed to survive up untill 10 AD when the last independent king, Strato III, fell.
The spring and autumn warring states of the west.
Least confusing Hellenistic wars
Please tell me I'm not crazy. I KNOW FOR A APOLLO-DAMNED FACT someone made a parody of a Brandon Rogers video using the Diadochi factions of TW Rome 2 and now I can't find it anymore. Crazypills or did the video disappear?
Fun fact, antiochus would found the city of antioch, might have heard of it before
If only a Time-Traveler Industrialized Ancient Sumeria
Another time period that is similar to Game of Thrones: the Sengoku Jidai.
Its my favorite time in history.
epic video
I have a feeling the wars of the diadochi were far bloodier than Alexander's campaigns. They degenerated into attrition warfare in the end costing who knows how many lives. Nevermind civilian deaths.
You have to admire Demetrius and Antigonus for their unstoppable ambition. They always seemed to bounce back after defeat and win new victories and titles
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