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>The Seleukid Empire Trilogy, by John D. Grainger
>A history in three parts of the most schizoid of the hellenic successor states, too big, too diverse and too full of other people's cities
>Seleukos I is a smart survivor, the only one of the diadochi to keep his government-issue iranian waifu, and he turns in his good boy points to get the lion's share of the persian empire
>Grainger is the anti-Norwich, long on facts and short on sentiment, and seldom buys into great man stories when it is more plausibly explained by something like Babylonian particularism
>A history in three parts of the most schizoid of the hellenic successor states, too big, too diverse and too full of other people's cities
>Seleukos I is a smart survivor, the only one of the diadochi to keep his government-issue iranian waifu, and he turns in his good boy points to get the lion's share of the persian empire
>Grainger is the anti-Norwich, long on facts and short on sentiment, and seldom buys into great man stories when it is more plausibly explained by something like Babylonian particularism
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