Edwyn Bevan (1870-1943) remarks in his preface to this two-volume work of 1902 that there is 'much to discourage an attempt to write a history of the Seleucid dynasty'. However; Bevan; a scholar of early Christianity as well as of the Hellenistic period; pulls together written and archaeological sources to describe the creation of an eastern empire by Seleucus; one of the successors of Alexander the Great. After an introduction on Hellenism in the east; Bevan describes the conflict between the generals after Alexander's death; and the complexity of the events which led Seleucus from governorship in Babylon to exile; and to the eventual conquest of an empire which spread from the Aegean Sea to the borders of India. Volume 1 covers the period until the succession of Antiochus III in 222 BCE; and Volume 2 continues until the disintegration of the dynasty in the last century BCE.
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