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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: making of a king
    sub title: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks
  name:
    name part: Waterfield, Robin
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxv, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Our volume tells the story of Macedon's complex relations with Greece, Egypt and the Near East in the "middle period" of the post-Alexander era. It opens about forty years after Alexander died, when the massive wars of the Successors were winding to a close and the next generation of kings continued the squabble over the Macedonian Empire and its relations with Greece. Waterfield has used his deep understanding of Greek history to construct the story of life and war and politics in a complicated, splintered empire. He highlights the singular accomplishments of the Macedonian king Antigonus Gonatas, who has never received his due until now. What Waterfield shows is that Antigonus was an exceptional politician and an artful strategist who protected Macedon and its Greek territories against aggressors coming from every direction, the Gauls storming the northern border, Ptolemy meddling in the Peloponnese and Antiochus stirring mischief in the Near East. It was Antigonus who stabilized Macedonian fortunes after years of chaos fomented by the death of Alexander.
  table of contents: Introduction: A time of transition -- The wilderness years (319-276). The disarray of Macedon ; The pride of Sparta ; The democratic spirit of Athens ; The vigor of confederacies ; The empire of the Ptolemies -- Kingship (276-239). King of Macedon ; Antigonus and the Greeks ; The wheel of fortune ; Court and culture ; A glimpse of the future.
  note: Robin Waterfield.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-bu---
    geographic code: e-gr---
    geographic code: e-xn---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: II, King of Macedonia
      name part: Antigonus
      name part: 319 B.C.-239 B.C
  subject:
    geographic: Macedonia
    topic: Kings and rulers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Macedonia
    topic: History
    temporal: To 168 B.C
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
    temporal: Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
    temporal: 281-146 B.C
  classification: DF237.A6 W38 2021
  classification: 938/.08092
  identifier: 9780226611372
  identifier: 022661137X
  identifier: 9780226611402
  identifier: 2020032133
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200716
    record change date: 20210728155035.0
    record identifier: in00004429589