2nd Part in groundbreaking three-part history of Seleukid Empire. Narrates the heyday of the Seleukid empire, then the largest state in the world, and beginning of their decline. Antiochus the Great was one of the most powerful rulers in the ancient world and this title Covers all Antiochus' many campaigns and battles.
An important but neglected aspect of classical warfare. Covers technological, strategic and tactical developments from Alexander to the battle of Actium.
Analyses the Roman imperial succession and the failure to come up with an enduring, consistent system for selecting the next emperor.
John Grainger skilfully narrates the political and social developments, complex diplomacy and wars that marked the reigns of the first two Ptolemies.
Although also known as the Third English Civil War, this was the last war between the Scots and English as separate states.
The only book available in English devoted to this subject. Narrates momentous yet neglected events: in 279 the Celtic Galatians invaded, defeated and beheaded the Macedonian king, Ptolemy Keraunos 'the Lightning Bolt') and overran much of Greece.
First volume in John Grainger's trilogy tracing the fortunes of one of the greatest superpowers of the ancient world.
Tells the history of this pivotal region, the doorway between Europe and Asia.
Ptolemaic Egypt was last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by the expansion of Roman power. Cleopatra, last of the Ptolemies, was a Roman ally but backed the wrong side in the Roman civil war due to her famous love affair with Marc Antony. She and Antony were defeated at the... číst celé
Uses archaeological evidence to determine how our Stone Age ancestors faced Climate Change.