The House of Seleucus The House of Seleucus 2 Volume Set Series

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', notably 'how often the narrative must halt for deficiency of materials'. However, Bevan, a scholar of early Christianity as well as of the Hellenistic period, pulls together written and archaeological sources to present an account of the creation of an eastern empire by Seleucus, one of the successors of Alexander the Great. Beginning with an account of 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 2 continues until the disintegration of the dynasty in the last century BCE.

16. Achaeus; 17. The reconquest of the east; 18. The conquest of Palestine; 19. The advance of the west; 20. The war in Greece; 21. The war in Asia; 22. The interval of peace; 23. Antiochus IV and the conquest of Egypt; 24. Antiochus the god manifest; 25. Antiochus and the Jews; 26. Antiochus V Eupator; 27. Demetrius the saviour; 28. Alexander I and the Ptolemaic ascendancy; 29. The Cretan tyranny; 30. Antiochus Sidetes; 31. The last convulsions; 32. Government, court, and army; Appendices; Index.