After rampaging his way around the closer eastern provinces, Seleucus’ peace deal with Antigonus allowed him to gaze further east and start greedily dreaming about conquest further afield. On the podcast today, we will see Seleucus copy both Alexander the Great and the Persians by invading India. But, as we saw in episode 4, he doesn’t face the disunited political scene that they did. It’s time for the Seleucids and the Maurya to butt heads…
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