Alexander's Heirs The Age of the Successors

by Anson, Edward M.

• ISBN13: 9781444339628
• ISBN10: 1444339621
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-07-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Alexander’s Heirs offers a narrative account of the approximately forty years following the death of Alexander the Great, during which his generals vied for control of his vast empire, and through their conflicts and politics ultimately created the Hellenistic Age.

• Offers an account of the power struggles between Alexander’s rival generals in the forty  year period following his death
• Discusses how Alexander’s vast empire ultimately became the Hellenistic World
• Makes full use of primary and secondary sources
• Accessible to a broad audience of students, university scholars, and the educated general reader
• Explores important scholarly debates on the Diadochi

Author Biography

Edward M. Anson is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the author of Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues (2013) and Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek Among Macedonians (2004), and co-editor of After Alexander: The Time of the Diadochi (323-281 BC) (with V.Alonso Troncoso, 2013).

Table of Contents

Maps
Abbreviations
Chronology
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Death of a Conqueror
Chapter 3: The Funeral Games Begin
Chapter 4: The End of a Dynasty
Chapter 5: “War, Both the King and Father of All”
Chapter 6: The End of the Diadochi
Epilogue: The New World
Bibliography