An Empty Throne

Name: An Empty Throne
Rating: 4.5 (760 reviews)

by Robert Fabbri Book 3 in the Alexander’s Legacy series.

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Alexander’s throne remains formally occupied by weak or vulnerable heirs, but real power lies with the generals and dynasts fighting around them. The novel follows the continuing wars of succession as marriages, hostage-taking, battlefield command and assassination become tools in the struggle for legitimacy. The royal family’s survival is increasingly uncertain as the empire’s leading commanders test whether any settlement can hold.

The nominal heirs matter because each faction can still claim to act in Alexander’s name while pursuing independent power. Regents, royal women and generals are therefore treated as pieces in a struggle where custody can be as valuable as battlefield victory. The novel shows the Successor wars moving toward the point at which preserving the old empire becomes less realistic than founding new kingdoms.

Historical Periods

Partition of Triparadisus321 BCE

Historical people

Alexander the Great357 BCE–324 BCE Olympias376 BCE–317 BCE Ptolemy I Soter369/368–282 BCE Roxana348 BCE–311 BCE Philip III of Macedon360 BCE–318 BCE Cassander356 BCE–297 BCE Antigonus I Monophthalmusc. 382–301 BCE