Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

by Paul J. Kosmin

Book Overview

Winner of the Runciman Award
Winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award

"Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a Year One and counting from there, rather than starting a new count, as other states did, each time a new monarch was crowned...Fascinating."
--Harper's

In the aftermath of Alexander the Great's conquests, his successors, the Seleucid kings, ruled a vast territory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067427122X
• ISBN13: 9780674271227
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"