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Oct 29, 2026
LiamHOST
One thing I find very interesting is how, after the Bronze Age collapse, after the events described in the works of Homer, you begin to see permanent Greek settlement on a much more significant level in Western Anatolia.
LiamHOST
Three regions in particular, Aeolia, Ionia, and the Troad, that being the vicinity of ancient Troy itself.
LiamHOST
We discussed in our last episode there appears to have been some presence of Greek speakers in the city of Troy prior to the destruction of that city during the Bronze Age Collapse.
LiamHOST
After the Bronze Age Collapse, the area, the Troas, appears to have been significantly Greek-speaking.
LiamHOST
Ionia, another one of those Western Anatolian Greek-speaking regions, would of course become the legendary birthplace of Homer.
LiamHOST
presumably where the Iliad and the Odyssey were both composed.
LiamHOST
Centuries after Homer, Greek writers acknowledged that the Greek speakers in these Western Anatolian regions derived some of their identity from local Anatolian peoples, such as the Carians and the Lycians.
Dave FarinaHOST
In fact, the Olympics and several other athletic festivals that are called Pan-Hellenic because they were open to competitors from across the Greek world were declared periods of truce so that athletes could travel to them without risking their lives.
Dave FarinaHOST
But there were two very large conflicts during the 5th century BCE that put the Dorian and Ionian alliances to the test.
Dave FarinaHOST
At the beginning of that century, the Greek cities of Ionia rebelled against the Persian Empire, which had subjected them to its authority, and the Athenians, who were themselves Ionians, sent soldiers to help them do it.
Dave FarinaHOST
The result was that a large Persian army invaded Greece in 490 BCE, which was repelled almost solely by Athens, who were famous for their navy.
Dave FarinaHOST
But the decisive Greek victory in this war was the land battle that the Athenians fought at Marathon.
Dave FarinaHOST
In the wake of these campaigns, a new civilization arose that spanned the Mediterranean from Asia Minor to Afghanistan, becoming a fusion of Greek and non-Greek cultures, and common forms of the economic, social, and political life emerged in what would now be called the oikumene, the inhabited world.
Dave FarinaHOST
Philip had been planning an expedition in order to free the Greek cities of Ionia from Persian rule when he was assassinated in 336 BCE.
Dave FarinaHOST
Alexander then took up his plans and in 334 BCE he crossed the Hellespont, the strait that separated Europe from Asia with about 50,000 soldiers.
Dave FarinaHOST
Over the next eight years, his army campaigned across the Persian provinces and of Asia Minor, Egypt, Palestine and Syria, Mesopotamia, and Central Asia.
John BatchelorHOST
real intellectual hub
Andrew BaylissGUEST
in the coast of Asia Minor then, that Ionia was where the big thinkers were.
Andrew BaylissGUEST
They weren't in Athens yet.
Andrew BaylissGUEST
So that's where the learner community was.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Where we talk of a school or schools of philosophy, the Greeks prefer to speak of a succession or successions, διαδοχαί, of philosophers.
speaker_4NARRATOR
The work before us professes to trace two such successions, the Ionian in the east and the Italian in the west, certain stragglers bringing up the rear for whom no place could be found in either.
speaker_4NARRATOR
The same word succession is used of rulers, as Amurath to Amurath succeeds, so in the schools each master hands down doctrine and authority to his disciple, the line of scholarchs being thus assimilated to a pedigree or genealogical table.
speaker_4NARRATOR
It is a result of this method that we are apt to separate thinkers and influences upon thought, which, to be properly understood, must be studied in conjunction.
speaker_4NARRATOR
The first book proper has, to be sure, little to do with philosophy.
speaker_4NARRATOR
It treats of Thales, Solon, and those other shrewd men of affairs who lived in the 6th century BC, and about whom a web of romance had been woven.
speaker_4NARRATOR
With book 2, the Ionian succession, which started with Thales, advances from Anaximander through Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, and Archilaus to Socrates, 2c5.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Having carried philosophy to Athens, our author remains at Athens or in its immediate neighborhood throughout books 2cc517, 3 Plato, 4 the Academy, 5 Peripatetics, 6 Cynics, 7 Stoics.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
First, he sent orders to the commandants of garrisons in the cities so held by him, bidding them to get together as large a body of picked Peloponnesian troops as they severally were able, on the plea that Tissaphernes was plotting against their cities.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
And truly these cities of Ionia had originally belonged to Tissaphernes, being given to him by the king; but at this time, with the exception of Miletus, they had all revolted to Cyrus.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
In Miletus, Tissaphernes, having become aware of similar designs, had forestalled the conspirators by putting some to death and banishing the remainder.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
Cyrus, on his side, welcomed these fugitives, and having collected an army laid siege to Miletus by sea and land, endeavoring to reinstate the exiles; and this gave him another pretext for collecting an armament.
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Graham RedmanNARRATOR
From this place they endeavoured to force a passage into Cilicia.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
Now the entrance was by an exceedingly steep cart-road, impracticable for an army in face of a resisting force, and report said that Syennesis was on the summit of the pass guarding the approach.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
Accordingly they halted a day in the plain, but next day came a messenger informing them that Syennesis had left the pass, doubtless after perceiving that Menon's army was already in Cilicia on his own side of the mountains, and he had further been informed that ships of war belonging to the Lacedaemonians and to Cyrus himself, with Tomos on board as admiral, were sailing round from Ionia to Cilicia.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
Whatever the reason might be, Cyrus made his way up into the hills without let or hindrance, and came in sight of the tents where the Cilicians were on guard.
Giselle KiralyHOST
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Giselle KiralyHOST
What is Ephesus? Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, which is now Türkiye.
Giselle KiralyHOST
It was founded 3,000 years ago in the 10th century BCE and reached its heyday during the 1st and 2nd centuries CE under the Roman Empire.
Giselle KiralyHOST
This bustling port city was the capital of the Roman province of Western Asia Minor, and actually was the second-largest city in the Roman Mediterranean after, you guessed it, Rome.
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