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Nicatur - Seleucus 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 ne...

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Autor principal: Hannestad, Lise (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Campaigning with Alexander
  • ch. 2 The death of Alexander and the first struggles for power
  • ch. 3 Satrap of Babylonia
  • ch. 4 The years in the Mediterranean and the return to Babylonia
  • ch. 5 Seleucus' co-regency with his son, victory over Lysimachus and death
  • ch. 6 Economy and administration
  • ch. 7 Royal propaganda and ideology
  • ch. 8 The coloniser
  • ch. 9 From palaces to pottery: material culture in the Seleucid realm
  • ch. 10 Conclusion.