Why was it that 2400 years ago the people who had recently
conquered the world were unable to stop barbarian Galatians from
looting the tombs of their revered royal line? Why was it that the
Macedonian state virtually created by Philip II and taken to the
heights of epochal triumph by his son Alexander the great had,
hardly two generations after his death , became a weaker entity
than it had been when the young conqueror had crossed the
Hellespont? This was a period during which Cassander and Lysimachus
had seemed about to construct durable Europe based polities and had
seen the likes of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Pyrrhus of Epirus
battling and besieging across Macedonia,Thrace and Greece. The
story that unfolds here explores how both the unique character and
the particular legacy left when Alexander died at Babylon in 323
,at the romantically youthful age of 32 , ensured that his homeland
failed to gain the kind of imperial dividend that accrued to others
of the world's great Empires. For Macedon there was not the
thousand years of glory that was the extraordinary destiny of the
Romans, nor even the two hundred years of Persian primacy, only 50
or so years of strife and trauma ending in a Galatian deluge that
threatened the sacred site at Delphi and had remarkable parallels
to the earlier Persian invasions of the Greek world that Alexander
had claimed to avenge.
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