What happened to the selucid part of Alexanders empire?

-- Anonymous, June 10, 2004

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I told you Aimless knows everything, he should have his own tv show

-- Anonymous, June 11, 2004

You realize, of course, I learned this stuff by reading. Listen, folks, it ain't that hard to learn if you think it is interesting. And how could you not find it interesting? It's a story with violent actions, violent emotions, greed, blood, intrigue, battles and soldiers being hacked limb from limb. Whatever tickles your fancy, it's there in ancient history - in spades!

The fate of the Seleucids was similar to all the other sub-empires that split off from Alexander's empire. The Seleucids spent a few centuries bashing around, alternately trying to conquer their neighbors or trying to keep their neighbors from conquering them. It was a long, very sordid history of misrule, managed purely for the private gain of the ruling dynasty and picking ordinary peasants as clean as a bone on an ant hill, until eventually the Romans came along and put what remained in their own pockets.

In the case of the Seleucids, their merciful end came in 64 BC, when the Roman general Pompey the Great made mincemeat out of the Seleucid army and took over taxing the peasants, who were still drudging away like usual. The Romans pretty much did that everywhere, except in the parts of Alexander's empire ruled by the Parthians. The Parthians didn't take no sh*t off the Romans, no way.

If you are really interested in this, a great book to check out of the library would be Alexander to Actium by Peter Greene. It tells the whole sad mess of a story clearly and interestingly.

-- Anonymous, June 10, 2004

Ive said it before and i'll say it again, ask Aimless he knows everything.

-- Anonymous, June 10, 2004