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Demetrius : Sacker of CitiesThe life of Demetrius (337283 BCE) serves as a through line to the forty years following the death of Alexander the Great (323282 BCE), a time of unparalleled turbulence and instability in the ancient world. With no monarch able to take Alexanders place, his empire fragmented into five pieces. Capitalizing on good looks, youth, and sexual prowess, Demetrius sought to weld those pieces together and recover the dream of a single world state, with a new

nor is he likely to lose sight of the drudgery which began with the Pelas gians and concluded with Philip of Macedon and an apology

The familiar figures who peopled that ancient world-King Minos

Knights and Kings

Often compared during his lifetime to T

The bite and wit of two of antiquity’s best satirists are captured in this Loeb Classical Library edition

As forty thousand people flee their homes in panic

so those twelve months sealed their destiny

the Roman – to stimulate a dialogue not only between the two ancient cultures

he travels to the seventeenth century

as well as an ill-fated attempt to overthrow the Persian king in 400 BC

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