Ghost on the Throne
The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs—a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his death—were jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexander’s Macedonian generals, spurred by their own thirst for power and the legend that Alexander bequeathed his rule “to the strongest,” fought to gain supremacy. Perhaps their most fascinating and conniving adversary was Alexander’s former Greek secretary, Eumenes, now a general himself, who would be the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family. James Romm, professor of classics…
James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and author of several books, including Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire. He has edited numerous translations of ancient Greek texts, including the Anabasis of Arrian for the volume The Campaigns of Alexander in the distinguished Landmark Series of Ancient Historians.
The Illustrated Meditations
Marcus Aurelius; Illustrated by Joanna Lisoweic; Introduction by James Romm
Plato and the Tyrant
James Romm
The Greek Histories
Edited by Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm
The Age of Caesar
Plutarch; Edited by James Romm, Translated by Pamela Mensch, Foreward by Mary Beard
The Greek Plays
New translations edited by Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm
Dying Every Day
James Romm
Ghost on the Throne
James Romm