Dividing the Spoils
The War for Alexander the Great's Empire
$27.95
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2012
Summary
This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the division of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen.
Alexander the Great built up his huge empire in little more than a decade, stretching from Greece in the West, via Egypt, Syria, Babylonia, and Persia through to the Indian sub-continent in the East. After his death in 323 BC, it took forty years of world-changing warfare for his heirs to finish carving up these vast conquests. These years …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199647002 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199647003 |
| Author: | Robin Waterfield |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 392g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 136mm x 215mm |
| Series: | Ancient Warfare and Civilization |
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Critics Review
Robin Waterfield’s coruscating cultural-political narrative does full and equal justice to all the major dimensions of this extraordinary half-century.
Gripping.'Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times Book ReviewHe provides us with a brilliant work of history and humanity, facts within cautionary tales.‘John Shosky, The European LegacyReview 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.'Military TimesA briskly readable march through tumultuous events which continue to reverberate.‘Daily ExpressRobin Waterfield's coruscating cultural-political narrative does full and equal justice to all the major dimensions of this extraordinary half-century.'Paul Cartledge, author of Ancient Greece, A History in Eleven CitiesA 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.‘Tom Holland, author of Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Robin Waterfield
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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