🎧 Fortress Cilicia: Megastructures of the Near East
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In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s death, his empire became the subject of the huge wars of succession. In this episode of the podcast, Dr Nick Rauh takes us through some of the monumental Hellenistic superfortresses built during this period and now uncovered in ancient Cilicia, on the shoreline of the northeastern Mediterranean. Nick is a professor of Classics at Purdue University.
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