Dividing the spoils : the war for Alexander the Great's empire /

Dividing the spoils : the war for Alexander the Great's empire /

"Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting all...

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Main Author: Waterfield, Robin, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, Ã2011.
Edition:[US only version].
Series:Ancient warfare and civilization.
Subjects:
To 476
Generals > Greece > Biography.
Generals > Macedonia > Biography.
Greece > History > Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C.
Macedonia > History > Diadochi, 323-276 B.C.
Greece > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Macedonia > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Mediterranean Region > History, Military.
Mediterranean Region > History > To 476.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Military history.
Online Access:Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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Table of Contents:
  • The legacy of Alexander the Great
  • The Babylon conferences
  • Rebellion
  • Perdiccas, Ptolemy, and Alexander's corpse
  • The first war of the successors
  • Polyperchon's moment
  • The triumph of Cassander
  • Hunting Eumenes in Iran
  • Antigonus, Lord of Asia
  • The restoration of Seleucus
  • Warfare in Greece
  • The end of Antigonus
  • The kingdoms of Ptolemy and Seleucus
  • Demetrius resurgent
  • The fall of Demetrius
  • The last successors
  • Timeline
  • Cast of characters
  • Genealogies.