Dividing the Spoils - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dividing the Spoils write by Robin Waterfield. This book was released on 2012-10-11. Dividing the Spoils available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A gripping account of one of the great forgotten wars of history, revealing how Alexander the Great's vast empire was torn asunder in the years after his death
Dividing the Spoils
Dividing the Spoils - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dividing the Spoils write by Robin Waterfield. This book was released on 2011-05-04. Dividing the Spoils available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing events. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter on battlefield after battlefield. And while the men fought on the field, the women, such as Alexander's mother Olympias, schemed from their palaces and pavilions. Dividing the Spoils serves up a fast-paced narrative that captures this turbulent time as it revives the memory of the Successors of Alexander and their great contest for his empire. The Successors, Robin Waterfield shows, were no mere plunderers. Indeed, Alexander left things in great disarray at the time of his death, with no guaranteed succession, no administration in place suitable for such a large realm, and huge untamed areas both bordering and within his empire. It was the Successors--battle-tested companions of Alexander such as Ptolemy, Perdiccas, Seleucus, and Antigonus the One-Eyed--who consolidated Alexander's gains. Their competing ambitions, however, eventually led to the break-up of the empire. To tell their story in full, Waterfield draws upon a wide range of historical materials, providing the first account that makes complete sense of this highly complex period. Astonishingly, this period of brutal, cynical warfare was also characterized by brilliant cultural achievements, especially in the fields of philosophy, literature, and art. A new world emerged from the dust and haze of battle, and, in addition to chronicling political and military events, Waterfield provides ample discussion of the amazing cultural flowering of the early Hellenistic Age.
Dividing the Spoils
Dividing the Spoils - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dividing the Spoils write by Henrietta Lidchi. This book was released on 2020. Dividing the Spoils available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and appropriation of objects during British colonial warfare. The authors offer a nuanced view of how the amassing of objects was governed and understood within military culture.
Taken at the Flood
Taken at the Flood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taken at the Flood write by Robin Waterfield. This book was released on 2014. Taken at the Flood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addressing a marginalized era of Greek and Roman history, Taken at the Flood offers a compelling narrative of Rome's conquest of Greece.
Ghost on the Throne
Ghost on the Throne - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghost on the Throne write by James Romm. This book was released on 2012-11-13. Ghost on the Throne available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs—a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his death—were jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexander’s Macedonian generals, spurred by their own thirst for power and the legend that Alexander bequeathed his rule “to the strongest,” fought to gain supremacy. Perhaps their most fascinating and conniving adversary was Alexander’s former Greek secretary, Eumenes, now a general himself, who would be the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family. James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world’s greatest empire.
