Date : 2020
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 978-87-7124-813-5
ISBN : 978-87-7219-173-7
ISBN : 87-7124-813-7
ISBN : 87-7219-173-2
EAN : 9788772191737
Séleucos -- I -- 0355?-0280 av. J.-C. -- roi séleucide
Classification Dewey : 939.43
Résumé / Abstract : "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."