RATIONES RERUM 20: Articolo Franca Landucci

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Rationes Rerum 20

FRANCA LANDUCCI
Il ruolo di Seleuco nel libro XX della Biblioteca storica di Diodoro

Books XVIII-XX of Diodorus Siculus’ Library of History focus on the history of the twenty years following the death of Alexander the Great. Seleucus is one of the main protagonists in this history. He is therefore mentioned many times by Diodorus, particularly in Book XIX, in the chapters on the so-called Third Diadoch War. Seleucus, however, is almost completely absent in Book XX, which is devoted to the years between 311 and 302 BC because Diodorus ignores the events of those years occurring in the territories east of Syria, where Seleucus was located. Seleucus reappears only in the last chapters of Book XX, when he arrives in Anatolia with his army to fight with his allies, Lysimachus, Cassander, and Ptolemy, against Antigonus the One-Eyed and his son Demetrius the Besieger.