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Article: An empire builder - Seleukos Nikator. (follower of Alexander the Great)
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- History Today
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- May 1, 1993
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Alexander the Great has gone down as the wonder of the ancient world with his spectacular career and conquests, but, John Grainger argues, a niche ought to be left for the junior general who carved out his own empire from the chaos that followed Alexander's death.
Two ancient empires, above all the rest, attract attention for their size, wealth and longevity: the Roman and the Persian. Each was huge, each lasted for centuries and each produced a long period of peace in which the inhabitants, after an even longer time of troubles, could flourish. in between these empires, there is another, less well known, but all the same vital connection between them. This was ...