The Rise of the Seleukid Empire (323-223 BC): Seleukos I to Seleukos III

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The Seleukid kingdom was once the largest state on the planet for a century and more between Alexander’s death and the upward push of Rome. It was once ruled for all that time by a succession of ready kings, but broke down twice, before sooner or later succumbing to dynastic rivalries, and simultaneous external invasions and internal grasps for independence. The first king, Seleukos I, established a pattern of rule which was once unusually friendly towards his subjects, and his policies promoted the steady growth of wealth and population in many areas which had been depopulated when he took them over. In particular the dynasty was once active in founding cities from Asia Minor to Central Asia. Its work set the social and economic scene of the Middle East for lots of centuries to come. Yet these kings needed to be warriors too as they defended their realm from jealous neighbors. John D Grainger’s trilogy charts the upward push and fall of this superpower of the ancient world. In the first volume, John D Grainger relates the remarkable twists of fortune and daring that saw Seleukos, an officer in an elite guard unit, emerge from the wars of the diadochi (Alexander’s successors) in keep watch over of the largest and richest a part of the empire of the late Alexander the Great. After his conquests and eventual murder, we then see how his successors continued his policies, including the repeated wars with the Ptolemaic rules of Egypt over keep watch over of Syria. The volume ends with the deep internal crisis and the wars of the brothers, which left just a single member of the dynasty alive in 223 BC.

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