Earlier this year, I read Dividing the Spoils, which looked at the 40 years after Alexander and the big picture division of his Empire. This new work by James Romm comes at it from a much tighter angle--the six years after Alexander's death in Babylon, especially the activities of the second-tier of actors--Demosthenes and Aristotle in the fractious political scene of Athens, Antipater's politically savvy daughters, Chandragupta Maurya and his adviser Kautilya, the Elephant Corps, the Illyrian warrior-women Cynnane and Adea and the dark horse Cassander.