1- Little Alex

<p>When Alexander died, there was initially one king- Philip III, Alexander’s half-brother. By the end of the next year, there were two kings- after the birth of Alexander’s only certified, legitimate son. However, the seemingly peaceful transfer from one regnal name to another hides all sorts of jostling going on in the background. Not quite yet violent struggles, but trust me, we’ll get there…</p> <p>Sources for this episode: 1) Grainger, J. D., 2014, The Rise of the Seleukid Empire (323- 223 BCE), Seleukos I to Seleukos III. Barnsley: Pen &amp; Sword Books Ltd. 2) Bosworth, A. B. (1993), Perdiccas and the Kings. The Classical Quarterly 43(2): 420- 427. 3) Jakob Siebert, Encyclopaedia Britannica (2019), Seleucus I Nicator (online) [Accessed 12/12/2020]. 4) In60Learning, 2019, The Seleucid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Hellenistic State (available on eBook). 5) Author unknown, Wikipedia, date unknown, Laodice of Macedonia (online) [Accessed 12/12/2020]. Alternative source for the Apollo lineage: Strootman, R. (2013), The Encyclopaedia of Ancient History (1st edition), p.473- 475. Hobokon, New Jersey: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.</p>