The Making of a King
King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy

For a long time the Kings/Queens of the Hellenistic Period had been overlooked by Historians in the sense that there are relatively few biographies for them in comparison to the statesmen of of Athens or the Emperors of Rome. That is finally changing however and now both the Kings and Queens of the......more

Another REALLY good book by Robin Waterfield you can count me as a fan. The Antigonids strike 3 for 3 on awesome kings to start the dynasty. Monophthalmus, Poliorcetes, and Gonatas, all so different, all so cool. Gonatas was so different from his rock 'n roll dad, from what we can glean, he truly wa......more

A really interesting and knowledgeable presentation of a period that gets little attention. I admit to struggling through a morass of individual, confederacy and place names. This is made even more difficult by the fact that the Macedonians/Greeks reused names like the Irish. Waterfield might have b......more

It is a really great work for anyone interested in hellenic kingship and the story of one of the most, unfortunately, obscure of the hellenic kings of the hellenistic period. Found it specially interesting how the way his relations with the Greek states were influenced by how said states acted towar......more