The House of Seleucus : Two Volume Set

This is a reissue of a major work first published in 1902 and much in demand by libraries and among scholars. It deals with a period of Greek civilization of immense importance - the Greco- Macedonian rule in the East after Alexander the Great and with the dynasty which played the principal part in the Greek East - that founded by the Macedonian Seleucus. 

Edwyn Bevan (1870–1943) remarks in his preface to this two-volume work of 1902 that there is 'much to discourage an attempt to write a history of the Seleucid dynasty', notably 'how often the narrative must halt for deficiency of materials'.

However, Bevan, a scholar of early Christianity as well as of the Hellenistic period, pulls together written and archaeological sources to present an account of the creation of an eastern empire by Seleucus, one of the successors of Alexander the Great. Beginning with an account of Hellenism in the east, Bevan describes the conflict between the generals after Alexander's death, and the complexity of the events which led Seleucus from governorship in Babylon to exile, and to the eventual conquest of an empire which spread from the Aegean Sea to the borders of India.

Very good condition throughout apart from burn damage to front dust jacket of Volume II.