TWILIGHT OF THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

Author: Mike Roberts and Bob Bennett

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Year published: 2012

Pagination: 187pp, 20 b/w illustrations, 5 maps, 12 battle plans

Condition: very good in plastic covered d/w

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This book analyses the complex series of conflicts between the Hellenistic Successor states (fragments of Alexander the Great’s short-lived empire) in the generation before the Romans intervened in the region. The authors' demonstrate that this period of almost-constant conflict and rivalry makes a fascinating subject. They describe Macedon’s war with Cleomenes III and the final crushing of Sparta’s last gasp as an independent power and the campaigns in the east through which the Seleucid king Antiochus (later defeated by the Romans at Magnesia) became known as Antiochus the Great.