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Alexandria: A Hellenistic World Podcast

by Phillip Register

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September 26, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

I perform the Panegyricus by Isocrates (380 BCE), his great work advocating for a pan-Hellenic conquest of Persia... with Athens at the helm, of course! I also read his short Letter to Alexander (341 BCE), exhorting the prince to take his…
6: Isocrates

September 19, 2026 · 58 min

338 BCE. A Theban merchant, Ismenias, has come to the agora of Athens to sell his wares. But he's in for a spectacle: a 98-year-old man is starving himself to death right there, surrounded by a crowd of adoring citizens. That man?…
5b: Demosthenes, Third Philippic and Funeral Oration

August 22, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

A performance of two famous speeches by Demosthenes, perhaps the greatest orator of ancient Greece. The Third Philippic (341 BCE) solidified his control over Athens and set the entirety of Greece on the warpath against Philip II. The…
5: Demosthenes

August 15, 2026 · 54 min

341 BCE. Two Athenian citizens, Antiphanes and Charias, have promised to vote against any war with Macedon. But Demosthenes, the greatest orator of Greece, proves persuasive. Dates mentioned: 384–338 BCE. NEW PATREON!…
4b: The Derveni Papyrus

July 25, 2026 · 41 min

Our second B-side presents the Derveni Papyrus, a 4th-century BCE philosophical treatise found in Macedon about the mysterious Orphic religion: the creation of the world, the gods, and the origins of human beings. Zeus has sex with his mom…

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4: The Macedonians

July 18, 2026 · 57 min

341 BCE. A young Thracian woman, Mukasokos, has been captured and enslaved by the army of King Philip II. Now, she must learn the preferences and particularities of her new masters: the Macedonians. Dates mentioned: 540s–340…
3b: Aristotle, Politics; Anaximenes, Rhetoric to Alexander

July 4, 2026 · 58 min

Our first B-side episode, presenting what Alexander may have been taught in Mieza by his philosopher tutors in their own words. Excerpts from Aristotle's Politics and Anaximenes' Rhetoric to Alexander. Excerpts are…
3: The Education of Alexander

June 27, 2026 · 45 min

342 BCE. The philosophers Aristotle and Anaximenes educate the young Alexander and his designated friends at the Temple of the Nymphs at Mieza. The local devotee of the temple, Theupropos, is not so happy about their presence. Dates…
2: Ptolemy, the Macedonian

June 13, 2026 · 52 min

322 BCE. Unnefer, an Egyptian living in Alexandria, hears a story by the herald Eurybates: the early life of Ptolemy the Macedonian. His upbringing, his education in Pella, his service at Chaeronea... and, finally, the sack of…
1: The Founding of Alexandria

May 30, 2026 · 45 min

331 BCE. Unnefer and Beknef, two local Egyptian fishermen, watch a weird rambling king found a new city. Plus, an introduction to this podcast. Dates covered: 331-322 BCE. Website (bibliography, notes, etc): https://…

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About the show

A podcast telling the lesser-known stories of the Hellenistic period (c.323 – 32 BCE), year-by-year. From the founding of Epicureanism to the sack of Corinth; from refugees hiding in caves to a bureaucrat running a great estate. Poets, philosophers, civil servants; mothers, doctors, prostitutes; everyone in-between. See you in Alexandria! Podcast website: https://alexandriapod.wordpress.com/