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Historical person
383 BCE–302 BCE
Antigonus I Monophthalmus was one of Alexander the Great’s Successors and one of the most ambitious rulers of the early Hellenistic world. He attempted to reunite much of Alexander’s empire under his own control before being defeated and killed at Ipsus in 301 BC.
Robert Fabbri’s To the Strongest places Antigonus I Monophthalmus within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, military command and battlefield decision-making, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. Mary Renault’s Funeral Games places Antigonus I Monophthalmus within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and military command and battlefield decision-making. Other novels featuring Antigonus I Monophthalmus include Christian Cameron’s Tyrant: Funeral Games, Christian Cameron’s Tyrant: Destroyer of Cities, Christian Cameron’s Tyrant: Force of Kings, Robert Fabbri’s An Empty Throne, and Robert Fabbri’s Babylon.
In non-fiction, Antigonus I Monophthalmus is discussed in Diodorus Siculus’s The Library, Books 16-20 and Quintus Curtius Rufus’s The History of Alexander. Diodorus Siculus’s The Library, Books 16-20 approaches the subject through military command and battlefield decision-making, court politics and dynastic power, and empire, conquest and resistance.
Historical context
Series
The Tyrant series is set around the Black Sea during the conquests of Alexander the Great and the wars among his successors. It begins with the Athenian soldier Kineas and the Scythian leader Srayanka, then continues through their children Satyrus and Melitta as Macedonian generals compete to divide…
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Alexander’s Legacy follows the violent struggle for power after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE. The sequence is not about Alexander’s conquests themselves but about the generals, royal women, heirs and soldiers left to divide an empire too large for any single successor to control.…
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The Alexander trilogy follows Alexander from childhood at the Macedonian court through the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire and into the violent struggle that followed his death. Fire from Heaven concentrates on his formation under Philip II, Olympias and Aristotle; The Persian Boy narrates the later campaigns through…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
