Nicator Seleucus I and his empire /
When the vast empire of Alexander the Great broke up, the Macedonian general Seleucus secured the lion's share for himself and went on to become the longest-lived of Alexander's successors. His tactical skills and his military innovations, including his use of war elephants on a scale neve...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aarhus :
Aarhus University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | When the vast empire of Alexander the Great broke up, the Macedonian general Seleucus secured the lion's share for himself and went on to become the longest-lived of Alexander's successors. His tactical skills and his military innovations, including his use of war elephants on a scale never seen before in the West, earned him the epithet Nicator, 'victorious.' When he died at the hands of an assassin in 281 BC, Seleucus ruled over a larger territory than any Hellenistic monarch before or since his time, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. This book is a study of his life and achievements, his time and his legacy. It is based on Graeco-Roman and Babylonian written sources as well as on the rapidly growing body of archaeological evidence. |
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| Item Description: | Color maps on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 181 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9788771248135 8771248137 8772191732 9788772191737 |