Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State: 4 (Hellenistic Culture and Society) - Softcover

Billows

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ISBN 10: 0520208803 ISBN 13: 9780520208803

Verlag: University of California Press, 1981

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Called by Plutarch "the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors," Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the first half of the Diadoch period, ruling most of the Asian territory conquered by the Macedonians during his final twenty years. Billows provides the first detailed study of this great general and administrator, establishing him as a key contributor to the Hellenistic monarchy and state. After a successful career under Philip and Alexander, Antigonos rose to power over the Asian portion of Alexander's conquests. Embittered by the persistent hostility of those who controlled the European and Egyptian parts of the empire, he tried to eliminate these opponents, an ambition which led to his final defeat in 301. In a corrective to the standard explanations of his aims, Billows shows that Antigonos was scarcely influenced by Alexander, seeking to rule West Asia and the Aegean, rather than the whole of Alexander's Empire.

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"With meticulous and wide-ranging scholarship, Professor Billows gives this vigorous, huge, and hugely ambitious figure his just deserts. A well-paced narrative of Antigonos's career, culminating in his disastrous bid for empire at Ipsus (301 B.C.), is followed by masterly analyses of his administrative, economic, and cultural policies. The result fills, with distinction, a notable gap in both Hellenistic history and biography."--Peter Green, author of "Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0520208803
• ISBN 13: 9780520208803
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 539