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.
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