Table of Contents
Abbreviations vi
Maps viii
Preface xvi
Introduction xvii
Chapter 1 The Seleucid Empire 1
Chapter 2 The War with Molon 25
Chapter 3 Seleucid Institutions 41
Chapter 4 The Battle of Raphia 56
Chapter 5 The Defeat of Achaeus 65
Chapter 6 The Anabasis 72
Chapter 7 Brave New World 87
Chapter 8 The Roman War 115
Chapter 9 The Battle of Magnesia 135
Chapter 10 The End of a Dynasty 152
Appendix I Dynasties of the Hellenistic World (to c.150bc) 161
Appendix II Children of Antiochus III 163
Appendix III Seleucid Timeline to 187 BC 165
Appendix IV International Timeline: 220-187 BC 167
Notes 168
Selected Bibliography 184
Index 188