Seleucia Pieria, D, 175, 207

Seleucia-on-the-Euphrates, E, I, 175

Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, E, I, 157, 176

Seleucus I of Asia, 17, 23, 25–6, 50, 66–7, 95–7, 104, 105, 107–8, 112–13, 116, 118, 121–8, 132–4, 140, 143, 144–6, 152–70, 173–9, 192, 193, 195–6, 199, 201–3, 206–8

settlements, 11–12, 31–6, 50, 70, 91–2, 160–2, 168, 174–5, 176, 199

Septuagint, 137

Seuthes III of Thrace, 119, 197–8

Seuthopolis, C, 197–8

Shield-bearers, 17, 26

ships, 11, 18, 28, 38–9, 40, 48, 58–9, 65, 69, 70, 78, 82–4, 92, 93, 94, 109–11, 112, 115, 117, 118, 119, 135–6, 141–2, 146–8, 153, 166, 174, 175, 176–7, 178, 180, 183, 186, 188, 190, 193–5, 199, 202, 209

Sicily, 11, 204

Sicyon, B, 116, 119, 133, 141, 150

Sidon, D, 154, 174, 178, 180, 189

sieges, 24, 62, 72, 74, 78, 82, 83, 89, 90, 93, 98, 110–12, 117, 119, 123, 131, 141–2, 147–50, 152, 179, 180, 187, 194, 209

Sinai desert, D, 146

Sinope, C, 192

Siwah, 48–9

slaves, I, 35, 54, 62, 78, 79, 86, 165, 198

Socrates, 191

Sogdiana, A, E, 30

Sophocles, 33, 87, 138

Spain, 11, 34

Sparta, Spartans, B, 37, 52, 115, 151, 186, 210

Stoicism, 180–1

Stratonice, 177, 195, 210

Sunium, Cape, B, 135

Susa, E, I, 6, 21, 28, 33, 68, 75, 95–7, 105, 107, 157

Susiana, A, E, 67, 97, 126

Syria, A, D, E, 5, 6, 7, 44, 49, 66, 70, 94, 97, 108, 111–12, 121–2, 126, 126–7, 131, 132, 133, 142, 146, 153–4, 157, 168, 173, 175–6, 177, 192, 196, 199, 208, 209, 210

Tarsus, C, D, 18

Taurus mountains, C, 38, 69, 75, 83, 118, 122, 196, 202

taxation, 26, 36, 111, 114, 157–70, 189, 198

Tegea, B, 89

Telesphorus, 119–20

Teus, C, 111, 114

Thebaid, D, 161

Thebes, B, 4, 37, 40, 92, 113, 115, 135, 187

Theocritus, 55, 87

Theophrastus, 85

Thermopylae, B, 38–9, 90

Thessalonica, B, 91–2

Thessalonice, 91–2, 113, 180, 184

Thessaly, A, B, 2, 38–40, 61, 73, 152–3, 186–8, 193, 195, 197, 200, 210

Thrace, A, B, C, 2–3, 6, 27–8, 30, 40, 58, 83, 119–20, 123, 124, 144, 152, 153, 173, 175, 185, 187, 197–9, 207, 209, 210

Thucydides, 56

Tigris river, A, E, 6, 97

timber, I, 34, 59, 62, 111–12, 135, 141–2, 153, 157

trade, I, 31, 32, 34–5, 45, 77, 84, 109–12, 123, 132, 136, 160–1, 166, 169, 173, 176, 186, 189, 198

treasuries, 10, 48, 49, 66–7, 72, 75, 94, 96, 105, 107, 111, 176, 177, 199, 201

trials, show, 64–5, 91, 113, 134, 158, 185

Triparadeisus conference, D, 66–70, 74, 89, 95, 102–5

Tyre, D, I, 65–9, 110–17, 154, 174, 178, 189

utopias, 34, 53, 173, 206

Vergina, seeAegae

Virgil, 87

Vitruvius, 86

War, Babylonian, 125–7, 132

Four-Year, 134, 140, 144, 150–1

Lamian, 36–41, 50, 75, 76, 82, 85, 120, 197

Peloponnesian, 56

of Successors, First, 57–60, 64–5, 69–73

Second, 74–6, 81–3, 84, 88–102

Third, 108–11, 112–25

Fourth, 129, 134, 140–54

Fifth, 193–6

Sixth, 202–3

warfare, land, 60–4

sea, 83–4

women, 35, 54–5

Xerxes I of Persia, 30

Zagros mountains, E, 93, 100

Zeno, 180

Zeugma, seeSeleucia-on-the-Euphrates

Zeus, 7–8, 48, 50, 112, 192, 202

Zipoetes of Bithynia, 109, 172, 208–9

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Maps

1. The Legacy of Alexander the Great

2. The Babylon Conferences

3. Rebellion

4. Perdiccas, Ptolemy, and Alexander’s Corpse

5. The First War of the Successors

6. Polyperchon’s Moment

7. The Triumph of Cassander

8. Hunting Eumenes in Iran

9. Antigonus, Lord of Asia

10. The Restoration of Seleucus

11. Warfare in Greece

12. The End of Antigonus

13. The Kingdoms of Ptolemy and Seleucus

14. Demetrius Resurgent

15. The Fall of Demetrius

16. The Last Successors

Time Line

Cast of Characters

Genealogies

Notes

Bibliography

Index