The Seleucids. The decline and fall of their empire, 1999, 143 p, 16 ill.n.b., 2 ill. coul., 1 carte. -

As he embarks on a new analysis of the history of the Seleucids, Pr. Wolski does not follow the old method, which viewed every fragment of history as a separate whole. The Seleucid state was a continuation of the monarchy of Alexander the Great and of the Achaemenids before him, and it inherited from its predecessors all its obstinate troubles. Impressed by Alexander the Great's campaign, the historians overlooked the obvious truth that the conquest itself cold not have resolved all the persuasive problems that haunted the Achaemenids state. And then, the Achaemenids' Asian heirs, the Seleucids, were faced by many new challenges. One aspect that has so far been taken little notice of was the resistance of the locaml population.