105 - Carthage Enters the War

In this episode, we discuss the Second Greco-Punic War (410-404 BC), as hostilities between Segesta and Selinous draw both Carthage to Sicily and the Syracusan fleet back from the eastern Aegean and the Hellespont, including Hannibal Mago's first invasion of Sicily and the destruction of Selinous and Himera, the rebellion of the previously exiled Syracusan general Hermokrates, the rise of Dionysios as tyrant of Syracuse, Hannibal Mago's second invasion of Sicily and the destruction of Akragas and Gela, and finally, the war's ceasefire which would see Carthage and Syracuse (under Dionysios) as the dual hegemons of Sicily

Primary Sources:

Diodorus Siculus' The Library of History (Book 13)

104 - The Democratic Empire Strikes Back

In this episode, we discuss the years 411 and 410 BC of the Peloponnesian War, including the shifting of the naval war to the Hellespont, the vigor that the Athenian democracy at Samos showed in carrying on the war effort against Sparta and Pharnabazos with victories at Kynossema and Kyzikos, the re-establishment of the radical democracy at Athens, and the transition from the historical account of Thoukydides into that of Xenophon's Hellenika

Primary Sources:
Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesian War (Book 8)
Xenophon's Hellenica (Book 1)

Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades
Diodorus Siculus' The Library of History (Book 13)