Good day everyone I’m Elena, thanks to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia, the blog about Alexander the Great and Hellenism! Today I’ve a new publication to announce you coming out in January 2022:
Alexander the Great’s Legacy. The Decline of Macedonian Europe in the Wake of the Wars of the Successors
by Mike Roberts
Published by: Pen & Sword
On: 30th January 2022
Hardback
Why was it that 2300 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.
Mike Roberts is a retired social worker but has a long-standing interest in the military history of the Classical world. He is the co-author (with his good friend Bob Bennett) of several well-received books: The Wars of Alexander’s Successors (volumes I and II); The Twilight of the Hellenistic World and The Spartan Supremacy. This is his fourth solo book, following Two Deaths at Amphipolis, Hannibal’s Road and Rome’s Third Samnite War. He lives in Dudley.
Hardback
Pages: 320
Illustrations: 20 colour illustrations
ISBN: 978-1526788528
£ 25.00 – 30,79 €
Contents:
Introduction X
Chapter 1 An Old, Old Man 1
Chapter 2 Forging the Fetters 25
Chapter 3 Cassander and Lysimachus 42
Chapter 4 Demetrius Rex 71
Chapter 5 Now an Old Man Moves 108
Chapter 6 A Passing Thunderbolt 137
Chapter 7 A Gallic Fury 164
Chapter 8 An Improbable Hero 193
Chapter 9 The Last of an Eagle 220
Epilogue 249
Notes 269
Bibliography 274
Index 277
Pen & Sword is always a very prolific publisher on Alexander and I’m happy, because the focus on him and the Diadochi must always be there!
If you want to save the release on Google Calendar here is the LINK.
Thank you and have a good day,
Alessandro III di Macedonia 