{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Archaeology","slug":"new-books-in-archaeology-736373","podcast_index_feed_id":736373,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT7466012449","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/archaeology/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/f6afca30-ece1-11e8-941d-3bcfe1253be2/image/842e54a826b14a261b8bac22eb1937f5.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":188,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/archaeology","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-archaeology-736373"},"episode":{"title":"Angelos Chaniotis, \"Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian\" (Harvard UP, 2018)","slug":"angelos-chaniotis-age-of-conquests-the-greek-world-from-alexander-to-hadrian-harvard-up-2018","published_at":"2025-10-19T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-archaeology-736373/angelos-chaniotis-age-of-conquests-the-greek-world-from-alexander-to-hadrian-harvard-up-2018","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-archaeology-736373","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT3375104592.mp3?updated=1760785279","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT3375104592.mp3?updated=1760785279","summary":"The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. In Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian(Harvard University Press, 2018), Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, examines how his successors reorganized Persian lands to create a new empire stretching from the eastern Mediterranean as far as present-day Afghanistan, while in Greece and Macedonia a fragile balance of power repeatedly dissolved into war. Then, from the late third century BCE to the end of the first, Rome’s military and diplomatic might successively dismantled these post-Alexandrian political structures, one by one. During the Hellenistic period (c. 323–30 BCE), small polities struggled to retain the illusion of their identity and independence, in the face of violent antagonism among large states. With time, trade growth resumed and centers of intellectual and artistic achievement sprang up across a vast network, from Italy to Afghanistan and Russia to Ethiopia. But the death of Cleopatra in 30 BCE brought this Hellenistic moment to a close—or so the story goes. In Angelos Chaniotis’s view, however, the Hellenistic world continued to Hadrian’s death in 138 CE. Not only did Hellenistic social structures survive the coming of Rome, Chaniotis shows, but social, economic, and cultural trends that were set in motion between the deaths of Alexander and Cleopatra intensified during this extended period. Age of Conquests provides a compelling narrative of the main events that shaped ancient civilization during five crucial centuries. Ryan Tripp (Ph.D., History) is currently an adjunct in History at Los Medanos Community College and Southern New Hampshire University. Learn m…","meta_description":"The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. In Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4295,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-archaeology-736373/episodes/angelos-chaniotis-age-of-conquests-the-greek-world-from-alexander-to-hadrian-harvard-up-2018/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-archaeology-736373/angelos-chaniotis-age-of-conquests-the-greek-world-from-alexander-to-hadrian-harvard-up-2018.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}