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Demetrius: Sacker of Cities (Ancient Lives) - Softcover

Buch 1 von 15: Ancient Lives

Romm, James

 
9780300274165: Demetrius: Sacker of Cities (Ancient Lives)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300274165 ISBN 13: 9780300274165
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2023

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A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again

"This colorful biography of Demetrius . . . explores his rich inner life and reveals an ancient world of violence and intrigue."--New York Times Book Review

The life of Demetrius (337-283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander the Great (323-282 BCE), a time of unparalleled turbulence and instability in the ancient world. With no monarch able to take Alexander's place, his empire fragmented into five pieces.

Capitalizing on good looks, youth, and sexual prowess, Demetrius sought to weld those pieces together and recover the dream of a single world state, with a new Alexander--himself--at its head. He succeeded temporarily, but in crucial, colossal engagements--a massive invasion of Egypt, a siege of Rhodes that went on for a full year, and the Battle of Ipsus--he came up just short. He ended his career in a rash invasion of Asia and became the target of a desperate manhunt, only to be captured and destroyed by his own son-in-law.

James Romm tells the story of Demetrius the Besieger's rise and spectacular fall but also explores his vibrant inner life and family relationships to depict a real, complex, and recognizable figure.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Romm is an author, a reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College. His reviews and essays appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Review of Books.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300274165
ISBN 13 
9780300274165
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
210
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