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
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.
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`Review from previous edition Robin Waterfield has produced an
excellent introduction...He conveys the drama of the aftermath of
Alexander's death with the intensity of a novelist.'
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Cities
`A gripping and often unsettling account of a formative period of
ancient history. As Robin Waterfield points out, it deserves to be
far better known than it is -- and now, thanks to the author
himself, it is as accessible as it has ever been.'
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Battle for the West
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