Books by Lise Hannestad

When the vast empire of Alexander the Great broke up, the Macedonian general Seleucus secured the lion’s share for himself and went on to become the longest-lived of Alexander’s successors. His tactical skills and his military innovations – including his use of war elephants on a scale never seen before in the West – earned him the epithet Nicator, “victorious”. When he died at the hands of an assassin in 281 BC, Seleucus ruled over a larger territory than any Hellenistic monarch before or since his time, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. This book is a study of his life and achievements, his time and his legacy. It is based on Graeco-Roman and Babylonian written sources as well as on the rapidly growing body of archaeological evidence.Lise Hannestad is professor emerita of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University. Her main research areas are the Near East in the Hellenistic period, the Etruscans and Black Sea archaeology.

This is the first volume of the complete publication of Panskoye I, a rural settlemt in Northwestern Crime which dates from c.400-270 BC and was founded by Olbia, the most important Greek city on the northern shores of the Black Sea. Fifty years later the fortress was destroyed and the settlement was taken over by the Greek city Chersonesos Taurica which controlled Panskoye until its final destruction. This volume publishes research results concerning a monumental building (U6) which was erected after the takeover by Chersonesos and reports on the building's varied and rich assemblage of finds, including sculpture, pottery, lamps, coins, metalwork, glass objects and graffiti. The volume provides a useful insight into a Greek city's exploitation of its territory and the interaction between Greek settlers and local tribes, in this case the Scythians and the Taurians. Volume 2 will examine the necropolis of the settlement and the final third volume will deal with the earliest fortress.