Robin Waterfield

Dividing the Spoils

The War for Alexander the Great's Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

A gripping account of one of the great forgotten wars of history, revealing how Alexander the Great's vast empire was torn asunder in the years after his death

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9780199931521
• ISBN-10: 0199931526
• Artikelnr.: 36126016

Autorenporträt

Robin Waterfield is an independent scholar and translator. In addition to translating numerous Greek classics, he is the author of Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths, Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age, and Athens: A History, From Ancient Ideal to Modern City. He lives in the far south of Greece on a small olive farm.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Maps
1: The Legacy of Alexander the Great
2: The Babylon Conferences
3: Rebellion
4: Perdiccas, Ptolemy, and Alexander's Corpse
5: The First War of the Successors
6: Polyperchon's Moment
7: The Triumph of Cassander
8: Hunting Eumenes in Iran
9: Antigonus, Lord of Asia
10: The Restoration of Seleucus
11: Warfare in Greece
12: The End of Antigonus
13: The Kingdoms of Ptolemy and Seleucus
14: Demetrius Resurgent
15: The Fall of Demetrius
16: The Last Successors
Time Line
Cast of Characters
Genealogies
Notes
Bibliography
Index