Description:Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, one of his commanders, Seleukos Nikator, rose over a period of forty years from being a landless refugee to the most successful of the Successor kings. This biography, first published in 1990, makes use of both historical and archaeological sources to trace the stages of Seleukos life as he added province to province, kingdom to kingdom, gradually building an empire which stretched from India to Greece and founding a state which lasted for the next two centuries.This strangely neglected figure in ancient history emerges as a modestly proficient general, an excellent strategist, a consummate diplomat, and an inventive and constructive ruler, the diversity of his empire demanding intelligence of a high order to hold it together. "Seleukos Nikator "will be of interest to students of ancient history and the politics of the Hellenistic world."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Seleukos Nikator: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom. To get started finding Seleukos Nikator: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
277
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Routledge
Release
2014
ISBN
1317800982
Seleukos Nikator: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom
Description: Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, one of his commanders, Seleukos Nikator, rose over a period of forty years from being a landless refugee to the most successful of the Successor kings. This biography, first published in 1990, makes use of both historical and archaeological sources to trace the stages of Seleukos life as he added province to province, kingdom to kingdom, gradually building an empire which stretched from India to Greece and founding a state which lasted for the next two centuries.This strangely neglected figure in ancient history emerges as a modestly proficient general, an excellent strategist, a consummate diplomat, and an inventive and constructive ruler, the diversity of his empire demanding intelligence of a high order to hold it together. "Seleukos Nikator "will be of interest to students of ancient history and the politics of the Hellenistic world."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Seleukos Nikator: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom. To get started finding Seleukos Nikator: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.