@rankingpersia.bsky.social episode 11
Xerxes 2
Interresting details about his childhood and every other Persian prince by Plato no less
Becomes king, no sweat he's the only son by a wife
Gets drunk
The end

Meanwhile Artexerxes' mother is bloodthirsty and wants revenge, gets it and almost starts a civil war
I love how salty @sarielsnowings.bsky.social is and their love for Megabyte
Is this already the beginning of the downfall of the Persian empire?

Sparta just sucks as per usual
Simon the Athenian (I love it when they have names that are still in use) with the stupid prophetic dream of barking / talking dog
Note: if you have those you will fight barbarians, because of course

Neither, small bloodbath, including what we think is the kings last remaining brother and then onto the apperent real enemy : AthensImagine history if they Xerxes had left Athens alone, cause now they are invading Egypt and all sorts

@rankingpersia.bsky.social episode 10
Artexerxes
After the assassination of the previous guy what happens then?
Apparently you get told, by the actual killer, that it was your brothers plan and then you kill your brother
So puppet king? Or fearing for your life and conspiracy in the court?

More oldtimey pr on huge columns
More almost incest and stupid males thinking with their genitals
Mutilation
Breast cancer surgery?!? Not on the king, on his mother
Next episode 10 of same

Destruction of that small city that no one has heard of since: Athens (spoiler, it doesn't work) Whipping the sea?!?
Massive canals, that actually got built! The giant engineering project humans could complete without modern tools is mind blowing

Another siege of Babylon and this time we destroy it all including the giant statue
DnD like prophesy, and the other prophecy where he makes someone else wear his close and sleep in his bed in order to get the same dream.

@rankingpersia.bsky.social
Episode 9 Xerxes 1

So I found my notes app, maybe this will keep, maybe this is the only time I'll write this much
The empire is in order and extended into Europe, so what now?
Rebellions (plural)

It's a really good episode and so many things happen that it's basically impossible to encapsul in these messages and I'm really trying to keep them short

@rankingpersia.bsky.social episode 8
Another the great
Maybe because he literally rewrote history
Or maybe because he was actually great for the empire

@rankingpersia.bsky.social episode 7
Bardiya
God boy or extreme Schlitzohr (this is funny if you speak German, trust me on this)
Somewhat of a nothing burger if you ignore his multiple deaths and the fact that he maybe wasn't himself
Episode 8 next...

@rankingpersia.bsky.social episode 6
Cambyses
Pro: pretty good for the empire in terms of expansion
Con: incest, sibling murder, cat army, extreme cultural insults, general cruelty
Next up, episode 7
Nearing the beginning of @alexstandardpod.bsky.social

@rankingpersia.bsky.social episode 5
Our first "the great" of this whole project
The only Jewish messiah of the whole project (AFAIK)
Overall good boy - if you agreed to being ruled by him of course
Now we are really cooking with gas in Persia
Episode 6 next

@rankingpersia.bsky.social episode 4: Astyages
Prophetic Dreams!
Attempted baby murder!
Revenge cannibalism!
Epic Battel!
Betrayal!
An episode that is mostly not about the actual king
Next up, same podcast episode 5

I absolutely don't buy the innocent "everybody just want me to be king" narrative