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Introducing Demetrius Poliorcetes, aka "the besieger" – the most striking figure in the wars of Alexander the Great's successors.
Later famed for his siege prowess, the son of Antigonus Monopthalmus was raised knowing at some stage he could inherit Alexander's entire empire, such was his father's initial success. He was a true celebrity in his day, fighting with his father in the Second War of the Diadochi against the cunning Eumenes, and later against Hellenistic all-comers in the Third and Fourth Wars of the Diadochi.

In this talk Dr Simon Elliott discusses his brand new biography of this most glamorous of the diadochi,