"Armies of the Successor States- The Seleucids." Topic
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| Tango01 | 01 Sep 2014 10:45 p.m. PST |
"Of the empires created from out of the Wars of the Diadochi, none started on firmer military footing than that founded by Seleucus Nicator ("the Victorious"; or, alternately, "the Conqueror"). At the time of his murder in 281 BC, Seleucus command (arguably) mightiest army the world had yet seen. He had defeated, and then combined with own, the armies of his erstwhile rivals Antigonus Monophthalmus ("One Eyed") and Lysimachos. Put another way, of the four great Macedonian Successor armies fighting at Ipsus in 301 BC (twenty years earlier), all of the some 160,000 combatants now served Seleucus. Within were men that had been junior rankers under Philip and Alexander; who had first conquered Greece and then laid "the whole of Asia" (for that is how they thought of the Persian Empire they had subdued) beneath their spears . These were hard men who had marched across the Middle East and back; veterans of the greatest campaigns and most titanic battles of the age. This force represented the combined experience and victorious tradition that was the Macedonian military machine founded by Philip and perfected by Alexander…"
Full article here
link Amicalement
Armand |
| Marcus Maximus | 01 Sep 2014 11:33 p.m. PST |
Nice find Armand, thanks. |
| AUXILIAPAL | 02 Sep 2014 2:00 a.m. PST |
Great articles on this site, thanks Armand! |
| Tango01 | 02 Sep 2014 10:23 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| waaslandwarrior | 02 Sep 2014 11:05 a.m. PST |
Very interesting.
My largest wargames army is Seleucids. Thanks Armand! |
| Tango01 | 02 Sep 2014 11:26 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon cher ami!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| JJartist | 08 Sep 2014 10:18 a.m. PST |
I think we all do it… and I try to do it less and less… but using other people's artwork without an acknowledgement of at least who did it and what publication it was from does everybody a disservice. The Angus McBride artwork from the Montvert Seleucid armies book by Sekunda deserves at least a caption-- as that leads folks to understand where this fine work comes from. His text seems fine on its own, but I wonder if it is lifted from Bar Kockva and Sekunda as well… the Montverts beign out of print do not help the situation since the price tag to own it is extreme now. Oh well such is the internet.. like I said I probably have images that I have not properly identified as well… which is bad on my part, and I need to sort those out.
Other than that, it's nice to see another site devoted to the later losers of Alexander's empires….
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ponders nirvana.
