The Rise of the Seleukid Empire, 323-223 BC

The first of three books on the ancient Greek dynasty "reads with the pull of a novel and shows how the new Empire rose and fell."-Firetrench

The Seleukid kingdom was the largest state in the world for a century and more between Alexander's death and the rise of Rome. The first king, Seleukos I, established a pattern of rule which was unusually friendly towards his subjects, and his policies promoted the steady growth of wealth and population in many areas which had been depopulated when ...