Nicator - Seleucus and His Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9788772191737)

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.

Author: Lise Hannestad
ISBN-10: 8772191732
ISBN-13: 9788772191737
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2020
Pages: 182
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.50w x 0.70d