Alexander the Great's Legacy: The Decline of Ma. Mike**

Alexander the Great's Legacy : The Decline of Macedonian Europe in the Wake of the Wars of the Successors Hardbackby Mike Roberts DescriptionWhy was it that 2400 years ago the people who had recently conquered the world were unable to stop barbarian Galatians from looting the tombs of their revered royal line?\nWhy was it that the Macedonian state virtually created by Philip II and taken to the heights of epochal triumph by his son Alexander the great had, hardly two generations after his death , became a weaker entity than it had been when the young conqueror had crossed the Hellespont?\nThis was a period during which Cassander and Lysimachus had seemed about to construct durable Europe based polities and had seen the likes of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Pyrrhus of Epirus battling and besieging across Macedonia,Thrace and Greece.\nThe story that unfolds here explores how both the unique character and the particular legacy left when Alexander died at Babylon in 323 ,at the romanti.