THE FALL OF THE SELEUKID EMPIRE 187-75 BC

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The concluding part of the history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last century of their empire. Riven by dynastic disputes, secessions, rebellions, religiously-inspired insurrection of the Jewish Maccabees, civil war, and the external invasion from Egypt in the West and the Parthians in the East. By the 80s BC, the empire was disintegrating, internally fractured, and squeezed by the converging expansionist powers of Rome and Parthia. A fitting, dramatic, and colorful conclusion to a masterful account of this once-mighty empire.