Category Archives: Hellenistic

By Jens Jakobsson The death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) saw the Macedonian army in a great confusion. The centralised Persian Empire was easy to govern once it was conquered, and the Macedonian military hegemony was by and large unthreatened, but the king had died without appointing a successor. Even a powerful heir wouldContinue reading “Basileía tōn Seleukidōn (306 – c.150 BCE)”