The Seleucid Empire - the Ancient World's fragile giant - was founded by one of Alexander's generals and survived for almost two hundred war-torn years with great upheavals in its fortunes.

Theme: the Seleucid Empire at War

• Michael J. Taylor, "Historical introduction"
• Mark McCaffery, "The rise of Seleucus - Seizing Alexander's Asian conquests
• Spyros Bakas, "The reenactor - Seleucid Royal Guard officer"
• Dennis Pricolo, "Beasts of Battle - Seleucid war elephants"
• Kai Grundmann, "A meeting of great minds - Hannibal at the court of Antiochus the Great"
• Marc G. DeSantis, "the revenge of Polyxenidas - the naval war with Antiochus the Great"
• Konstantin Nossov, "A mysterious wall in Caria - the mainland wall of Iasus"
• Gabriele Esposito, "The army of Antiochus IV - organization and structure of the late Seleucid army"
• Joseph Hall, "On the cover"

Features:

• Dan Howard, "Raising the shade of Agamemnon"
• Jessica Billing, "Roman cavalry helmets from Hadrian’s Wall"