Been reading this slowly over the past month or so and now that I'm coming to the end I would like to ask for any good books about what happened after Alexander's death since I know practically nothing about it apart from the inevitable splitting up of the empire.
>>24739272I recently read Diodorus Sicilus books 16-20 (specifically picrel) and I had a blast. Books 18-20 cover the successors of Alexander. It goes up to 301bc, at the fourth Diadochi war. Although his account is not fully reliable since he makes his biases clear and believes in shit like divine intervention, the book is still interesting because he uses sources that aren’t available to us today, like Ptolomy’s memoirs. Not exactly up to par with modern scholarship obviously but I liked it. Give it a read if you’re interested.
>>24739272>>24739323I also believe some of Plutarch’s lives cover the Diadochi although I haven’t read Plutarch.
>>24739323thank you I'll definitely have a look at getting this, are there any more modern books you'd recommend for me to read as well?
>>24739272The same author wrote Alexander to Actium, which covers everything from 323 to 30BC.
>>24739463To be honest with you, I haven’t read any modern books on this subject. Diodorus was my introduction to the wars of the Diadochi. The Oxford World Classics edition of Diodorus does contain 100+ pages in footnotes, so there’s that.
I read this several years ago. I remember it being pretty good. Very readable. Another modern one I have yet to read is “dividing the spoils” by Robin Waterfield
