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Sto caricando le informazioni... Alexander the Great's Legacy: The Decline of Macedonian Europe in the Wake of the Wars of the Successorsdi Mike Roberts
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Following the death of Alexander the Great, the Successor Wars hit his homeland particularly hard. The Argead dynasty, whose kings had ruled Macedon since the seventh century, didn’t survive the escalating power struggles – to consolidate his hold on the country, the Diadoch Cassander put Alexander’s mother Olympias to death, and in 309 B.C. he ordered the assassination of the last Argeads, Roxane and her son Alexander IV. In the book under review, Mike Roberts traces the decline of the Macedonian kingdom from the late fourth century B.C. to the early years of Antigonus II Gonatas, who was able to restore a stable monarchy around 270 B.C. Roberts has already written several books of military history intended for a broad audience, with topics ranging from the Peloponnesian War to the Second Punic War; he has also co-authored two volumes on the Diadoch Wars.
Why was it that 2400 years ago the people who had recently conquered the world were unable to stop barbarian Galatians from looting the tombs of their revered royal line? Why was it that the Macedonian state virtually created by Philip II and taken to the heights of epochal triumph by his son Alexander the great had, hardly two generations after his death , became a weaker entity than it had been when the young conqueror had crossed the Hellespont? This was a period during which Cassander and Lysimachus had seemed about to construct durable Europe based polities and had seen the likes of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Pyrrhus of Epirus battling and besieging across Macedonia,Thrace and Greece. The story that unfolds here explores how both the unique character and the particular legacy left when Alexander died at Babylon in 323 ,at the romantically youthful age of 32 , ensured that his homeland failed to gain the kind of imperial dividend that accrued to others of the world's great Empires. For Macedon there was not the thousand years of glory that was the extraordinary destiny of the Romans, nor even the two hundred years of Persian primacy, only 50 or so years of strife and trauma ending in a Galatian deluge that threatened the sacred site at Delphi and had remarkable parallels to the earlier Persian invasions of the Greek world that Alexander had claimed to avenge. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)938.07092History and Geography Ancient World Greece to 323 Greece to 323 Macedonian Supremacy (362-323 BC)Classificazione LCVotoMedia: Nessun voto.Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |