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Informationen zum Autor Robin Waterfield was formerly a university lecturer at the universities of Newcastle and St Andrews, before becoming a commissioning editor at Penguin Books. A freelance writer and translator since the early 1980s, he has published numerous translations of the Greek classics for both the Oxford World's Classics and Penguin Classics. He now lives in the far south of Greece on a small olive farm. Klappentext The story of the wars that led to the break-up of Alexander the Great's vast empire after his death in 323 BC and the brilliant cultural developments which accompanied this birth of a new world. Zusammenfassung The story of the wars that led to the break-up of Alexander the Great's vast empire after his death in 323 BC and the brilliant cultural developments which accompanied this birth of a new world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
