Dividing the Spoils Waterfield Robin
Dividing the Spoils Waterfield Robin Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing…
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Dividing the Spoils Waterfield Robin
Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing events. And while the men fought on the field, the women, such as Alexander's mother Olympias, schemed from their palaces and pavilions.Dividing the Spoils serves up a fast-paced narrative that captures this turbulent time as it revives the memory of the Successors of Alexander and their great contest for his empire. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter on battlefield after battlefield.
Indeed, Alexander left things in great disarray at the time of his death, with no guaranteed succession, no administration in place suitable for such a The Successors, Robin Waterfield shows, were no mere plunderers.