Pat Wheatley, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Otago, New Zealand, and Charlotte Dunn, Lecturer in Classics, University of Tasmania

Pat Wheatley is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research specialty is the history and historiography of the Successors to Alexander the Great, and he has published extensively on the chronology, coinage, and social aspects of this period.

Charlotte Dunn is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research interests include the life of Alexander the Great and his Successors, especially the propaganda and political manipulations that these men used to secure power.

"The authors have rendered a great service in granting present and future readers improved access to one of the most colourful characters of Hellenistic history in its earliest phases. The book should certainly generate an impact in the field of ancient history for years to come, not least as a first point of contact for anyone interested in Demetrius and his dynasty." - Christian Thrue Djurslev, Classical Review

"This collaborative work by Pat Wheatley and Charlotte Dunn is an excellent attempt to piece together the highly fragmentary sources on Demetrius into a convincing biography, as well as an attempt to partially liberate Demetrius from the image of the fickle individual drawn by Plutarch ... What comes out very clearly from reading this fascinating narrative is the sheer extent to which events play a major role in historical outcomes and how periods like the age of the Successors are open to the intersection between different and divergent causal chains." - Kostas Vlassopoulos, Greece & Rome

"Wheatley and Dunn have achieved an enormous feat in producing this volume, the first comprehensive biography of Demetrius the Besieger, and in overcoming the vast problems thrown up by the sources. It stands as a substantial contribution to the study of the Hellenistic world and will remain, for a good while, a must read for anyone interested in Demetrius the Besieger, the Antigonid dynasty, the Successor Wars, and Hellenistic history and monarchy." - Emma Nicholson, University of Exeter, Bryn Mawr Classical Review