Demetrius

Sacker of Cities

Demetrius
James Romm
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h216 x 140mm - 224pg
14 Feb 2023 US
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9780300259070
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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 The life of Demetrius (337-283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander (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 a full year, and the Battle of Ipsus-he came up just short. He ended his career in a rash invasion of Asia, and he became the target of a desperate manhunt only to be captured and destroyed by his own son-in-law.

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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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ISBN-13: 9780300259070
Published: 14 Feb 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 224

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