Fiery king. Aizenberg A.

The sudden death of Alexander in Babylon at the peak of glory in the incomplete 33 years is as mysterious as his life. Miracles continued - his body remained imperishable for six days, as evidenced by Plutarch. The second part of the book - the Life of Demetrius - is dedicated to the representative of the next generation of heirs, the son of the ally Alexander Antigon Demetrius, nicknamed Polyorket (“besieging the city”). Its life is a chain of continuous clashes with senior diadochas throughout the Mediterranean Hellenism of the third part - the king of Epir Pyrrh (“red -haired”), whom Hannibal considered the second of the greatest commanders after Alexander, modestly divert only the third place. Pyrrhus was a second cousin and cousin of Macedonian. Pyrrhus wanted to become the new Alexander of the West, and many believed that Alexander Macedonian himself was revived in his face. His army, created together by almost all the kings of the Hellenes, was more impressive in its amount than the army of Alexander. The hero’s spirit was quite Alexandrov, but his victories over the Romans turned out to be pyrrhic, because the enemy was completely different. Having not suffered a single defeat, Pyrrhus lost the “war on exhaustion”, since it was already a war of resources. The Empire of the West arose on its own, Roman basis.