Dr. Graham Wrightson

And he sails around, but Antigonus is the first one to actually use the title King for the first time in the three tens after the death of all these different family members is really when the last son is dead. And Antigonus,

And he sails around, but Antigonus is the first one to actually use the title King for the first time in the three tens after the death of all these different family members is really when the last son is dead. And Antigonus,

Polyperchon and Olympias are dealt with then he has himself and his son Demetrius declared kings and then the other successors follow suit they're like well if Antigonus can be king we can be kings too and so they declare themselves pharaoh of Egypt and then king of Babylon and then Lysimachus becomes king of Thrace and Cassander makes himself king of Macedon and so Antigonus is sort of the

Polyperchon and Olympias are dealt with then he has himself and his son Demetrius declared kings and then the other successors follow suit they're like well if Antigonus can be king we can be kings too and so they declare themselves pharaoh of Egypt and then king of Babylon and then Lysimachus becomes king of Thrace and Cassander makes himself king of Macedon and so Antigonus is sort of the

Polyperchon and Olympias are dealt with then he has himself and his son Demetrius declared kings and then the other successors follow suit they're like well if Antigonus can be king we can be kings too and so they declare themselves pharaoh of Egypt and then king of Babylon and then Lysimachus becomes king of Thrace and Cassander makes himself king of Macedon and so Antigonus is sort of the

catalyst for these actions in thinking he has enough power now that he can stand by himself. And he's still trying to

catalyst for these actions in thinking he has enough power now that he can stand by himself. And he's still trying to

catalyst for these actions in thinking he has enough power now that he can stand by himself. And he's still trying to

attack these other kings to reintegrate the empire of alexander like antigonus viewed himself as the reinstigator of the full empire that although he has his his area he wants to conquer egypt which he invades a couple of times and babylon which he successfully invades and seleucus flees to egypt for safety on one occasion so he is trying to reunify alexander's empire when he's in his most successful period that's when he calls himself king he thinks he's

attack these other kings to reintegrate the empire of alexander like antigonus viewed himself as the reinstigator of the full empire that although he has his his area he wants to conquer egypt which he invades a couple of times and babylon which he successfully invades and seleucus flees to egypt for safety on one occasion so he is trying to reunify alexander's empire when he's in his most successful period that's when he calls himself king he thinks he's

attack these other kings to reintegrate the empire of alexander like antigonus viewed himself as the reinstigator of the full empire that although he has his his area he wants to conquer egypt which he invades a couple of times and babylon which he successfully invades and seleucus flees to egypt for safety on one occasion so he is trying to reunify alexander's empire when he's in his most successful period that's when he calls himself king he thinks he's

He's sufficiently powerful to do that. And then the others follow suit. And then, of course, Antigonus dies. But Demetrius calls himself king inherited from Antigonus, his father, even though he has no kingdom. It's only when he comes back and takes Macedon from Pyrrhus and Cassander that then he can call himself king of Macedon.

He's sufficiently powerful to do that. And then the others follow suit. And then, of course, Antigonus dies. But Demetrius calls himself king inherited from Antigonus, his father, even though he has no kingdom. It's only when he comes back and takes Macedon from Pyrrhus and Cassander that then he can call himself king of Macedon.

He's sufficiently powerful to do that. And then the others follow suit. And then, of course, Antigonus dies. But Demetrius calls himself king inherited from Antigonus, his father, even though he has no kingdom. It's only when he comes back and takes Macedon from Pyrrhus and Cassander that then he can call himself king of Macedon.

Yeah, I'm glad you asked that because that's my specialist area. So the Ptolemies in particular, we know quite a lot about Egypt because we have a lot of papyrus evidence that talks about even low level offices in terms of the grants of land they have. And we have a few papyri that tell us about musters of troops.

Yeah, I'm glad you asked that because that's my specialist area. So the Ptolemies in particular, we know quite a lot about Egypt because we have a lot of papyrus evidence that talks about even low level offices in terms of the grants of land they have. And we have a few papyri that tell us about musters of troops.

Yeah, I'm glad you asked that because that's my specialist area. So the Ptolemies in particular, we know quite a lot about Egypt because we have a lot of papyrus evidence that talks about even low level offices in terms of the grants of land they have. And we have a few papyri that tell us about musters of troops.

So we get some names of people and how many soldiers and the specific titles they have and the land they own and all that different stuff. So we can reconstruct the Ptolemaic army pretty well from the papyri. And there's a great book. He'll be annoyed if I don't mention it by my good friend, Paul. Just don't know.

So we get some names of people and how many soldiers and the specific titles they have and the land they own and all that different stuff. So we can reconstruct the Ptolemaic army pretty well from the papyri. And there's a great book. He'll be annoyed if I don't mention it by my good friend, Paul. Just don't know.

So we get some names of people and how many soldiers and the specific titles they have and the land they own and all that different stuff. So we can reconstruct the Ptolemaic army pretty well from the papyri. And there's a great book. He'll be annoyed if I don't mention it by my good friend, Paul. Just don't know.