Books on the Diodochi?

[Stug_Life]

Hello, I am currently reading a book on Antigonos and was curious what other books existed about the other Diodochi leaders at that time? I'm finding it hard to locate any on Kassandros and Lysmachias.

 

[IsaacCAT]

What is the book you are reading?

 

[saegoto]

Books on Alexander's Successors are hard to come by. Biographies even more.

I recommend: Robin Waterfield - Dividing the Spoils

 

[andry18]

James Romm - Ghost on the Throne
Landucci - Alexander's legacy
Bevan - The House of Seleucus
Billows - Antigonos the One-Eyed
Green - Alexander to Actium

The final chapters about Hammond's History of Greece and The Macedonian State talk about the hellenistic period, too

 

[Yems]

Oh as a matter of fact I have one in my possession though it is in Greek. The author is Johann Gustav Droysen and I believe the title is Macedonian Hellenism - History of Alexander the Great's Diadochi, as least that is how I translate the title in Greek.

 

[Roy1012]

If you are talking primary sources, most of them are destroyed. Most famously Ptolemy's history of Alexander was destroyed in one of the burnings of the Library of Alexandria. However, multiple sources such as the Anabasis of Alexander are based off of these sources. They quote and reference them quite often, so the best thing we have is something like this in terms of primary sources.

 

[Stug_Life]

What is the book you are reading?

Antigonos the one eyed
I also read Ghost on the throne last year

 

[stratigo]

Ironically, Dr. Deveraux's last fireside chat recommended a couple good ones.

https://www.amazon.com/Army-Ptolemaic-Egypt-323-Institutional/dp/1473833833
https://www.amazon.com/Society-Ptolemaic-Egypt-Armies-Ancient/dp/1107007755

They're focused on the ptlomies. Quirk of the sources, the ptlomies are the best attested of the diadochi.

 

[Robbert12345678]

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html volume IX covers the diadochi and even agathocles
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/demetrius*.html this is about, well demetrius

 

[Valentinius]

"Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State" by Richard A. Billows is very good and focused.
Will echo Robin Waterfield's "Dividing the Spoils" as mentioned above.

I can also recommend the Hellenistic Age Podcast which is super comprehensive and is set to cover the entire Hellenistic era, but they don't appear to have finished yet. It's on Youtube and probably elsewhere too.

 

[Stug_Life]

Thank you all for the recommendation!

 

[Daft]

My reading list is enormous. Currently going through In the Name of Rome.

Just completed Caesar and The Complete Roman Army.

On the way I have Pax Romana and Augustus.

All by Goldsworthy. Will get SPQR by Mary Beard soon.

 

[Snow Crystal]

Personally I am a large fan of John D. Grainger's work on the Seleukid dynasty:
- Rise of the Seleukid Empire
- Antiochus III
- Fall of the Seleukid Empire

 

[Daft]

Personally I am a large fan of John D. Grainger's work on the Seleukid dynasty:
- Rise of the Seleukid Empire
- Antiochus III
- Fall of the Seleukid Empire

So, you're saying there will be a DD today?

 

[Bratyn]

This was by far the most extensive source I could find on Lysimachus:

Lysimachus

 

[Daft]

This was by far the most extensive source I could find on Lysimachus:

Lysimachus

Now we have TWO devs confirming today's DD! This is amazing!