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Alexander the Great's Death and the Wars of the Successors
In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great died suddenly in Babylon at age 32, leaving no clear heir and an empire that stretched from Greece to India. His generals, the Diadochi, immediately began jockeying for power, triggering four decades of war that would reshape the ancient world. This episode explores the immediate chaos after Alexander's death—the Babylon Settlement, the rise of Perdiccas, the revolt of the Greek cities in the Lamian War, and the brutal infighting among figures like Ptolemy, Antigonus Monophthalmus, Seleucus, and Lysimachus. We examine how Alexander's body was hijacked…
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