This is the story of the man who would become the first ruler to be known as “the Great” after Alexander, and, like him, would be at his peak the most powerful man on Earth, who inherited a decaying empire, and led it to greatness. It's the story of Antiochos III. 🧵 Antiochus wasn't destined to become a king. He was the younger son of Seleukos II, and so, his brother became king as Seleukos III afterwards. When he in turn was assassinated while campaigning in Anatolia, Antiochos ascended to the throne in 223 BC. Antiochos was ~20 yo.

As my fren @eugyppius1 suggested, I finally came around to writing a thread about the connection between rightism within Faustian Civilisation and Christianity. This is a somewhat complicated topic due to the current state of the church but Christianity is much more than that. Let's start with this skepticism toward materialism eugyppius mentions. Christianity constitutes a powerful alternative to a materialist worldview in that it has a tremendously rich intellectual tradition consisting of some of the greatest thinkers in history.

Carthage was undoubtedly one of the great ancient civilizations, yet aside from specialists, knowledge about it usually is limited to the Second Punic War or, at most the conflict with Rome as a whole. This thread is concerned with its rise to power before it was brought down. Despite its greatness, there is remarkably little source material on Carthaginian history, especially before the Punic wars, which led the renowned scholar Werner Huß to declare there couldn’t be written a history of Cartage but only chapters of it.

Lately I've been thinking about a conversation I had with one of my professors. He's teaching ancient history but during a conversation about the Persian wars he started talking about current American politics. (1/18) He maintained Trump was the worst president ever and should be persecuted for horned-man's actions during Jan 6 2020. (2/18)