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To kick of 2024 we discuss the Great Library of Alexandria.  Supposedly created around 300BCE in the Ptolemaic Kindom of Egypt shortly after the breakup of the empire of Alexander the Great, the Great Library is famed for having collected all the written knowledge that the rulers of Alexandria could get their hands on.  Any ship passing through the trading port was required to submit any books for copy and installation in the library.  However, was this library really as vast and wonderous as was recounted?  Why is there no direct archeological evidence of its existence?  Take a listen and learn all about The Great Library!

Did the fall and/or destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria really set human progress a thousand years? Would w bee flying around in spaceships and teleporting and doing all kinds of crazy stuff if Julius Ceasar hadn't have burned down the library around 2000 years ago? Or DID Ceasar burn it down? What actually happened? What do we truly know about the contents of a place said to be the greatest house of knowledge of the ancient world? Exploring a historical mystery today - AND - bringing back Idiots of the Internet. Hooray! 

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The study of the Universe (cosmology) has changed considerably over time. With every new discovery, our conception of the cosmos has undergone a seismic shift.

If science is like an onion, constantly shedding its skin, then the cosmos is like an onion that grows by orders of magnitude every time it sheds!

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This week, Jason brings us a fun topic on the nature of the perception of direction and Jordan shares his understanding of how that relates to the magnetic field of planet earth.  Lilia comes up with a  great topic for the Mind of The Middleschooler and we head north of the border for a Moosehead Lager!!!  Like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram - @musicofthespherespod, follow us on Twitter - @musicspherespod, check out our website - www.musicofthespherespodcast.com, and send us an email at brothers@musicofthespherespodcast.com.

Article from Space.com - https://www.space.com/43173-earth-magnetic-field-flips-when.html

Universal Corrective Map - https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/xutd4r/the_universal_corrective_map_of_the_world_was/

Ptolemy's Map - https://sciencephotogallery.com/featured/ptolemys-world-map-sheila-terryscience-photo-library.html

Jump To Conclusions Mat - https://youtu.be/sDEL4Ty950Q

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We continue to study Daniel’s final vision including more of the Angel’s Explanation to Daniel. This includes Prophecies about Persia and Greece and detail information about the Greek kings of the South and North.  Amazing Prophetic detail!

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Antigonus was famously once asked, “who is the greatest General of our day?” to which he replied, “Pyrrhus, if he lives to be old.”

This is the third and final installment of The Life of Pyrrhus, King of Epirus.  

[Original music score based on Epirot and other Greek folk traditions, by Ilias Markantonis.

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Pyrrhus takes opportunity after opportunity, always imagining this will further his cause.  It begins with a Sicilian expedition. After this, Pyrrhus returns to Italy to fight the Battle of Beneventum.   Then he goes to Macedonia to try and claw back an opportunity he didn’t pursue earlier. 

It’s a predictable pattern, according to Plutarch:

“Pyrrhus was always entertaining one hope after another, and since he made one success but the starting point for a new one, while he was determined to make good each disaster by a fresh undertaking, he allowed neither defeat nor victory to put a limit to his causing trouble for himself and for others.”

Pyrrhus made his mark by cultivating an almost maniacal focus on winning in battle - he had a lust for combat. In doing so he won for himself long lasting glory. But we should perhaps ask, together with Plutarch - what was the cost? And was it worth it?  

On today’s podcast:

• Pyrrhus’ whirlwind Sicilian expedition
• Fabricius’ revenge
• Pyrrhus vs Antigonus
• The Siege of Sparta 
• The Battle for Argos

Links:

• https://ancientlifecoach.com/

Some Places Mentioned

Akragas (Agrigento)

Leontini (Lentini)

Tauromenium (Taormina)

Eryx (Erice, Trapani)

Lilybaeum (Marsala)

Tarentum (Taranto)

Beneventum (Benevento)

Syracuse

Calabria

Aegae

Sparta

Crete

Corinth

Argos
Nafplio

“Pyrrhus… saw clearly what great happiness he was leaving behind him. But he just couldn’t renounce his hopes of obtaining what he eagerly desired.”

We can think of many ambitious leaders or groups who made a big dent in the world by smashing through boundaries: The Mongols, The British East India Company, Moses and Joshua taking the promised land.  But many dreamed big and failed to deliver: Napoleon in Russia, Xerxes in Greece.

Which kind of leader will Pyrrhus be?

In this episode, the story of Pyrrhus' great challenge to the Romans; the first well-documented visit to Rome by a Greek; Pyrrhus' famous utterance,  “If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.”

Some takeaways:
Fortune favors the bold: if you have your heart set on something, why not do everything within your power to achieve it?  Show compassion even when you don’t have to - Pyrrhus consistently showed respect for his enemy.  Also Pyrrhus is not famous for being a politician, but he was a competent negotiator who sought a peaceful resolution before resorting to violence. 

On today’s podcast:

• The cost of following your dreams 
• Showing respect for your adversary
• Winning wars without resorting to violence (sometimes)
• Letting your strengths guide your decisions

Links:

• https://ancientlifecoach.com/

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In this final part of his Life, Eumenes’ loyalty to the legacy of Alexander is put to the ultimate test.  He faces off against Antigonus, on behalf of Queen Olympias, over rulership of the kingdom and the regency of the kings.

A notable historian, A.B. Bosworth, remarks that the struggle between Eumenes and Antigonus “Did more than anything to determine the shape the Hellenistic world.”

Our guest narrator is Dawn LaValle Norman, a classicist and scholar of Plutarch and his era.

Eumenes has the choice at multiple points to retire in peace.  But he fights on.  Why? And what can we learn from his example? 

Eumenes knew the secrets of how to secure the loyalty and admiration of followers, and the compliance of reluctant subordinates. 

He took his men on grand campaigns from the steppes of central Turkey to the marshes of Babylonia, the death valley of Susa, and the Iranian highlands.

As Plutarch remarks: “Success… makes even men of smaller character look impressive to us, as they stare down upon us from the heights, but it is when misfortune strikes, that the truly great and steadfast man becomes unmistakeable.”

On today’s podcast:

• How to secure loyalty from reluctant followers 
• How to wait out a siege
• The brittle peace after Antipater’s death, and the wrench that smashed it
• How Eumenes made it into the Babylonian Chronicle
• Why the debtor rules the creditor
• The way Eumenes fought when the odds were against him

Links:

• https://ancientlifecoach.com/

What would you do if your closest friend died unexpectedly, leaving an incredible legacy, and an infant son. How far would you go to defend his rights? Would you give your life? 

In this episode Eumenes emerges onto the world stage as one of antiquity’s brilliant generals.

What is it like to believe in a divine kingship?  Or, at least, to act as though you do believe?

Eumenes fought rebel Persian satraps, upstaged Macedonian warrior nobles, arranged dynastic marriages, fought in hand to hand combat with great commanders.  He was visited in his dreams by the gods.  He strove mightily against fate.

Like the figures he worked for and fought with, he seems larger than life sometimes.  What can we take away from his biography? 

Eumenes stayed true to his principles, kept his word in an increasingly faithless age, and though all adversity, by gradually taking on larger and larger challenges and responsibilities, he transformed himself, and became an equal of the great lords who were deciding the fate of the throne of Alexander.

On today’s podcast:

• Why you should be careful who you marry
• How to remain loyal to yourself and the cause you believe in
• How the The first great War of the Successors began
• How to get the gods to fight on your side
• Eumenes’ transformation from a man of letters to a man of war

Links:

• https://ancientlifecoach.com/

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:Herschel Moon History

• Natalie Elliot’s Homepage
• Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of Lock”
• Shakespeare’s
  • Julius Caesar
  • Hamlet
  • Romeo and Juliet
• Claudius Ptolemy
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Tycho Brahe
• Aristophanes’s
  • Clouds
  • Birds
• Fermilab Bison
• Antikythera Mechanism
• “Origin Story” for Aeon
• And two recently published papers on universal life detection that we are WAY TOO EXCITED about:
  • Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications
  • Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry

Everyone knows the Hollywood Cleopatra, but what about the woman trying to preserve her family’s 275-year-old dynasty, the woman trying to keep Egypt safe from the ever-reaching grasp of Roman rule? Were her bedroom alliances with Caesar and Mark Anthony done out of love for these powerful Roman men or to save herself and her country? Would her first-born child by Caesar be strong enough to continue the Ptolemaic Dynasty and ally himself with Rome? This episode is jam packed with fascinating facts about Cleopatra and the times in which she lived.  

Episode Edit: 
*The comment regarding chess and checkers mentioned at about 8 minutes into the episode is purely satirical. As far as we can tell, neither of those games were around in the 1st century BC.

 Episode Resources:

 Anthony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy

 From Gracchi to Nero by H. H. Scullard

 Plutarch’s Lives (Volume I and II)

 Clues to Cleopatra’s Tomb Discovery (Travel & Leisure Magazine)

 Cleopatra’s Real Appearance (Express UK)

 Gal Godot’s New Cleopatra Movie (BBC) 

 Cleopatra (1963 film with Elizabeth Taylor)

 Cleopatra (1934 film with Claudette Colbert)

Are there other yous living in other, parallel dimensions? Are there an infinite number of other yous? Where the Hell are they? Today we talk about multiverse theory and it is a fascinating brain-buster. We glance over the history of cosmology and look at some of the minds whose intelligent, relentless questioning and study advanced our understanding of the stars and our place in them time and time again, often at great personal cost. How much further could our understanding of the cosmos go? Will we ever be able to meet.... ourselves? I hope you enjoy the best my limited mind could do with this unlimited subject. Hail Nimrod!

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Whopper of a tale for you today. Battles, incest, murder, betrayal, and more! Born in 69 BCE, Cleopatra VII was part of the Macedonian dynasty that took over rule of Egypt in the late 4th century B.C. A dynasty full of a PREPOSTEROUS amount of incest and murder. SO much. During her reign, she forged political alliances and became romantically involved with Roman military leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony - bearing sons for month men. She could've ended up ruling Rome. Instead Rome pushed her to her death in 30 BCE.

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