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Historical person
356 BCE–297 BCE
Cassander was one of the Successors of Alexander the Great and became king of Macedon after years of civil war. His rule was tied to the elimination of Alexander’s surviving family and the consolidation of Macedonian power in Greece.
In Mary Renault’s Funeral Games, the narrative follows Olympias, Eurydice, Antipater, Cassander and Antigonus through the wars that destroy Alexander's household and culminate in a Hellenistic world ruled by separate dynasties. In Christian Cameron’s Tyrant: Force of Kings, Old alliances collapse as Ptolemy, Cassander and their partners calculate how much support to offer and what they will demand in return. Other novels featuring Cassander include Robert Fabbri’s Forging Kingdoms, Robert Fabbri’s To the Strongest, Robert Fabbri’s An Empty Throne, and Robert Fabbri’s Babylon.
In non-fiction, Cassander is discussed in Diodorus Siculus’s The Library, Books 16-20 and Quintus Curtius Rufus’s The History of Alexander. In Diodorus Siculus’s The Library, Books 16-20, the settlement at Babylon, the Lamian War, the regencies of Perdiccas and Antipater, the campaigns of Eumenes and Antigonus, the struggles involving Olympias and Cassander.
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.
