Seleucia
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Sep 17, 2026
LambdaNARRATOR
The third was the man of whom we have been speaking.
LambdaNARRATOR
The fourth was a Stoic, a native of Seleucia, but usually called a Babylonian.
LambdaNARRATOR
from the proximity of Silchia to Babylon.
LambdaNARRATOR
The fifth was a native of Tarsus, who brought on the subject of some questions concerning poetry, which he endeavors to solve.
Alexandra SillsHOST
Not only was Crassus' own reputation going to skyrocket, so would that of his beloved son, who was already being seen as the next big thing back in Rome.
Alexandra SillsHOST
The Parthians sent emissaries to ask Crassus, why the hell are you invading us unprovoked? And Crassus, according to Plutarch, said, I will tell you my plans when I reach Seleucia.
Alexandra SillsHOST
That's the royal city in what is now Iraq, deep into Parthian territory.
Alexandra SillsHOST
He clearly intended to be in Parthia for a while, but the emissary laughed and said, my palm is going to grow hairy before that ever happens.
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Alexandra SillsHOST
But left now with only a cadaver, the next best thing was to cut off Crassus' head and hands and send them back to Erodes in lieu of a breathing prisoner.
Alexandra SillsHOST
As for Crassus' torso, that was left in a heap with some other corpses.
Alexandra SillsHOST
And so the man who'd laughed at the idea of Crassus reaching Seleucia was wrong.
Alexandra SillsHOST
That is, parts of Crassus made it to Seleucia, just not the whole body.
Chris ParryGUEST
Poor old Hannibal, he, he goes on the run.
Chris ParryGUEST
He becomes a, um, he becomes a, a mercenary essentially, mercenary, uh, strategic advisor, shall we say, uh, to the King of Seleucia.
Chris ParryGUEST
The Romans constantly pursuing him all the time.
Chris ParryGUEST
It's a bit like Osama Bin Laden.
Melinda ComingNARRATOR
Khalat el Mudik is the Apamea of the Seleucids.
Melinda ComingNARRATOR
It was founded by Seleucus Nicator, that great town builder who had so many cities for his god-daughters, Seleucia in Pieria, Seleucia on the Chalacadnus, Seleucia in Babylonia, and more besides.
Melinda ComingNARRATOR
Though it has been utterly destroyed by earthquakes, enough remains in ruin to prove its ancient splendour, the wide circuit of its walls, the number of its temples, and the magnificence of its columned streets.
Melinda ComingNARRATOR
You can trace the main thoroughfares from gate to gate by the heaped masses of colonnades, and mark the stone bases of statues at the intersections of the ways.
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Florence ShortNARRATOR
They brought, too, a request from their master that he might come and spend an hour with me, and I sent back a message praying that he would honor me.
Florence ShortNARRATOR
He appeared later with one or two people in attendance to carry his hubble-bubble and settled himself for a comfortable chat to the gurgling accompaniment of the water-pipe, a soothing and an amicable sound conducive to conversation.
Florence ShortNARRATOR
He told me that Selcan was one of the many Seleucias, and that it had been founded by Seleucus I himself as a summer resort for the inhabitants of Antioch.
Florence ShortNARRATOR
The spot on which I was camped, said he, and the graveyard beyond it formed the site of the Seleucid town, and whenever we dig a grave we turn up carved stones and sometimes writing.
Chip PinkertonGUEST
So look with me this evening.
Chip PinkertonGUEST
There beginning in verse number 4, the Bible says, "...so they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia, and from thence they sailed to Cyprus." And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John to their minister.
Chip PinkertonGUEST
And when they had gone through the aisle unto Epaphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus, which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man, who called for Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear the word of God." But Elymas, the sorcerer, for so is his name by interpretation, withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
Chip PinkertonGUEST
Then Saul, who also is called Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him and said, O fool of subtlety and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways? of the Lord.
Trevor CulleyHOST
However, the story of Antiochus III has also been a grand tour of the Seleucid Empire, with opportunities to discuss the culture and politics of many provinces, vassals, and neighbors.
Trevor CulleyHOST
I touched on Seleucid Babylonia a little bit while discussing Molon's revolt, primarily to talk about the process of transitioning the center of culture and power away from Babylon to Seleucia on the Tigris.
Trevor CulleyHOST
However, I want to pause our narrative for a moment to discuss Hellenistic Mesopotamia a little more in depth, both because Babylonia remains one of the better documented parts of the ancient world under Seleucid rule, and because I just have a soft spot for the former heartland of the Assyrian Empire in northern Mesopotamia.
Trevor CulleyHOST
Diving right in with Babylonia, though.
Trevor CulleyHOST
Alexander the Great went even further than the Persians to secure Babylon as Macedonian territory, shifting his capital to the greatest of ancient cities and tearing down the dilapidated remains of the Esagila, Babylon's great temple, to build the famed Sigarat Anu from the ground up.
Trevor CulleyHOST
But of course, Alexander died.
Trevor CulleyHOST
Seleucus Nicator founded Seleucia on the Tigris, and though the early Seleucids did build a new Esagila, it was not the divine palace Alexander had imagined.
Trevor CulleyHOST
With Seleucia growing year by year alongside an ever-increasing number of smaller Greco-Macedonian colonies, Babylon began to chafe once again.
David WalesNARRATOR
A number of them came into Haran from the Mesopotamia desert on the feast of St. Helpidius, April 24.
David WalesNARRATOR
At Seleucia in Izaria, we read for the first time of women, virgins, as well as men, the former under the direction of a deaconess named Marthana, see page 42, whom she had previously met at Jerusalem, and also there she first uses the term apotactite, which for her includes members of both sexes.
David WalesNARRATOR
This term recurs several times at Jerusalem, where monazontes and parthenae are likewise mentioned.
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David WalesNARRATOR
Thus the aged priest on Mount Sinai came out de monasterio zuo, page 4, and the bishop of the city of Arabia, whom she had known ever since she was in the Thebaid, had been brought up in a passino from his boyhood in monasterio.
David WalesNARRATOR
This man, in passing, is quite worthy of further notice because Aetheria tells us that in consequence he was both well-learned in the scriptures and chastened in his whole life, besides being courteous and most kind in receiving pilgrims, truly a charming picture of an old-world church dignitary.
David WalesNARRATOR
For instances of monasteria, collections of cells, we may refer to what is said of them under Mount Sinai on page 5, where the monks' successful cultivation of the lower slopes is well described, and again to those she visited around Rachel's Well near Haran, and the monasteria sine numero vivorum ac mulierium which she found surrounding the church at Seleucia.
David WalesNARRATOR
These last were all enclosed in a high wall which had been raised to protect them from the inroads of the brigands who infested the district, page 42.
Thomas CopelandVOICE_ACTOR
There Susa by Choaspes amber stream, the drink of none but kings.
Thomas CopelandVOICE_ACTOR
Of later fame built by Emathian or by Parthian hands, the great Seleucia by Cibys.
Thomas CopelandVOICE_ACTOR
And there Artaxata, Teritern, Ctesiphon, turning with easy eye thou mayst behold.
Thomas CopelandVOICE_ACTOR
All these the Parthian, now some ages past, by great Arsaces led, who founded first that empire, under his dominion holds, from the luxurious kings of Antioch won.
Melinda CummingNARRATOR
Kalat el Mudik is the Apamea of the Seleucids.
Melinda CummingNARRATOR
It was founded by Seleucus Nicator, that great town builder who had so many cities for his goddaughters, Seleucia in Pieria, Seleucia on the Calacadnus, Seleucia in Babylonia, and more besides.
Melinda CummingNARRATOR
Though it has been utterly destroyed by earthquakes, enough remains in ruin to prove its ancient splendour, the wide circuit of its walls, the number of its temples, and the magnificence of its columned streets.
Melinda CummingNARRATOR
You can trace the main thoroughfares from gate to gate by the heaped masses of colonnades, and mark the stone bases of statues at the intersections of the ways.
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Tad DavisNARRATOR
They brought us walnuts to eat by the edge of the stream, and small antique gems that had dropped from the ornaments of those who sought pleasures less innocent, perhaps, than ours by the banks of the same torrent.
Tad DavisNARRATOR
It is impossible to travel in North Syria without acquiring a keen interest in the Seleucid kings, backed by a profound respect for their achievements in politics and in the arts.
Tad DavisNARRATOR
I was determined, therefore, to visit, before I pushed north, the site of Seleucia Pieria, the port of Antioch and the burial-place of Seleucus Nicator.
Tad DavisNARRATOR
Inland capital and seaport sprang into being at the same moment, and were both part of one great conception that turned the lower reaches of the Orontes into a rich and populous market.
speaker_1GUEST
And so I, I wanted you to see, to kind of put a picture here, that, uh, he left from Antioch.
speaker_1GUEST
Uh, actually, not from Antioch, from Seleucia.
speaker_1GUEST
They sailed to the, to Cyprus.
speaker_1GUEST
They went to Paphos, and in Paphos, they had that experience of, uh, that weird experience of the guy Bar-Jesus.
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