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- Estado
- ISBN
- 9780307456601
- Book Title
- Ghost on the Throne : the Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Europe / Eastern, Ancient / Greece, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Middle East / General
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs--a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his death--were jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexander's Macedonian generals, spurred by their own thirst for power and the legend that Alexander bequeathed his rule "to the strongest," fought to gain supremacy. Perhaps their most fascinating and conniving adversary was Alexander's former Greek secretary, Eumenes, now a general himself, who would be the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family. James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world's greatest empire.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307456609
ISBN-13
9780307456601
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113296355
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ghost on the Throne : the Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Europe / Eastern, Ancient / Greece, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Middle East / General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
History
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
12 Oz
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Reviews
"Romm charts all the reversals and alliances with the skill of a great detective." - Los Angeles Times "Thrilling. . . . But Ghost on the Throne is [also] a careful work of fine scholarship." - The New Criterion "Offering well-paced and often-dramatic narratives, up-to-date research, and thorough documentation. . . . [Romm] lends a vividness and passion to his narrative." - The Wall Street Journal "Romm is a gifted storyteller as well as a respected scholar." - Choice "[Romm has] mastered the knack that all classicists should have: He can get inside the sources and bring them alive. . . . This is history every reader should know, and this is exactly how it should be written." - Open Letters Monthly "Romm's saga of the tumultuous years immediately following Alexander's relatively sudden death . . . becomes something of a thriller: [Who] will survive until the next chapter in this roller coaster of an imperial succession story?" - History Book Club "Romm . . . is one of a few historians worldwide who can be numbered among the Alexander experts." - Westfair Online "Written more as a thriller than a history tome." - The Daily Freeman "Fast-paced and absorbing . . . Captivating . . . A sterling account of a little discussed era in ancient history." - Publishers Weekly "Lively. . . . [A] scholarly but colorful account of the toxic fallout from the untimely demise of a continent-striding conqueror. . . . Romm paints a vivid portrait of ancient politics." - Kirkus Reviews, "Thrilling. . . Bringing the sources into artful alignment-affirming one account here, dismissing another there-takes expert eyes, and Romm clearly has them. . . A careful work of fine scholarship . . . It binds an otherwise mind-boggling narrative into a skillfully coherent whole." -Brendan Boyle, New Criterion "James Romm succeeds brilliantly in bringing to life the seven-year period. . . The range of personality types in this complex web of tales is broad, and Romm delineates them sharply enough so that most readers will soon enough have picked their favorites." -Jeremy Rutter, History Book Club "Fast-paced and absorbing. . . Romm brings to life the Bodyguards and their struggles to maintain their territories . . . Romm's captivating study stands alongside Robin Waterfield's engaging recent Dividing the Spoils as a sterling account of a little discussed era in ancient history." - Publishers Weekly "Scholarly but colorful account of the toxic fallout from the untimely demise of a continent-striding conqueror. . . Romm paints a vivid portrait of ancient politics. . . lively enough to engage newbies [to ancient history] as well." - Kirkus "After the death of Alexander the more amazing story begins. It''s a story of astonishing courage and endurance, and of desperate battles, diplomatic intrigue, debauchery, assassination, and treachery. Romm tells the story of these often neglected decades with an eye for vivid detail, clarity about the often surprising military operations, and alertness to the transformation of the ancient world that took place when Alexander left his empire "to the strongest." -W. R Connor, Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics emeritus at Princeton, and Senior Adviser to the Teagle Foundation. "Professor Romm is a leading scholar of the ancient Greek world. He is also a brilliant storyteller, and in the tale of the prolonged and murderous war for succession to Alexander the Great''s throne and empire he has a truly gripping tale to tell. This combination of historical accuracy and original research with exciting, action-packed dramatic story is exceptionally rare in any field of history-and we are fortunate to have Professor James Romm as our mentor and dramaturge." -Paul Cartledge, AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University, and author of Alexander the Great: The Hunt for A New Past "Ghost on the Throne illuminates the dark mysteries and personal motivations that swirled in the turbulent, little-studied era ushered in by Alexander''s untimely death in Babylon. In Romm''s gripping, detailed account, we watch the tragic drama unfold, as the young leader''s closest companions become vicious rivals, shredding Alexander''s grand dream amid blood and paranoia." -Adrienne Mayor, author of The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome''s Deadliest Enemy "James Romm brings together impressive scholarship, an engaging prose narrative, and excellent maps and illustrations to bring alive the bloody aftermath to a general audience-as he sorts out in riveting fashion the failed efforts of successor would-be kings, thugs, and killers to restore Alexander''s brief empire. A model of what classical scholarship should be." -Victor Davis Hanson author, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War; and The Other Greeks Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University "In his gripping new ''Ghost on the Throne," James Romm adds the narrative verve of a born writer to the erudition of a scholar. Taking what until now had been a murky gray area of ancient history that was once the province of specialists--the eventful, convoluted, and bitter struggles for power immediately following the death of Alexander the Great--Romm has crafted a richly colored, expertly narrated page-turner. A wonderful book for anyone interested in history, power--or just an amazing tale." -Daniel Mendelsohn
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Dewey Decimal
938/.08
Dewey Edition
22
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