Babylon

Name: Babylon
Rating: 4.4 (727 reviews)

by Robert Fabbri Book 4 in the Alexander’s Legacy series.

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The contest for Alexander’s empire turns back toward Babylon, the city whose possession gives strategic and symbolic weight to any claim over the east. Antigonus, Seleucus, Ptolemy and their allies struggle for advantage through campaigns, fleets and shifting coalitions. The novel centres on the attempt to hold or seize Babylon while the old imperial structure breaks into rival power blocs.

Babylon matters because whoever controls it gains access to the wealth and communications of Alexander’s eastern empire. The struggle is therefore both military and symbolic. As alliances collapse and reform, the Successors are forced to decide which territories can actually be held and which grand claims are no longer realistic, turning Alexander’s inheritance into a contest between emerging kingdoms.