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Author | : Günther Hölbl |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135119767 |
Download A History of the Ptolemaic Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This compelling narrative provides the only comprehensive guide in English to the rise and decline of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt over three centuries - from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the tragic deaths of Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BC. The skilful integration of material from a vast array of sources allows the reader to trace the political and religious development of one of the most powerful empires of the ancient eastern Mediterranean. It shows how the success of the Ptolemies was due in part to their adoption of many features of the Egyptian Pharaohs who preceded them - their deification and funding of cults and temples throughout Egypt.
Author | : Ian Worthington |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2016-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190202351 |
Download Ptolemy I Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When Rome defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra and annexed Egypt, the rule of the longest-lived of the Hellenistic dynasties and one of the most illustrious in Egyptian history came to an end. For nearly three hundred years, the Macedonian dynasty known as the Ptolemaic had controlled Egypt and its mixed population of Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians, and Jews. The founder of this dynasty, Ptolemy I (367-283/2 BC), was a boyhood friend and eventually personal bodyguard of Alexander the Great, who fought alongside Alexander in the epic battles that toppled the Persian Empire, and brought about a Macedonian Empire stretching from Greece to India. After Alexander's death, his senior staff carved up his vast empire, with Ptolemy gaining control of Egypt. There he built up his power base in Egypt, introduced administrative and economic reforms that made his family fabulously wealthy, and by extending Egypt's possessions overseas founded an Egyptian Empire. In addition to his political and military prowess, Ptolemy was an intellectual, who patronized the mathematician Euclid, wrote an important account of Alexander's campaign in Asia, and established the famous Library and Museum at Alexandria, which were the cultural heart of the entire Hellenistic Age. Ptolemy ruled Egypt until he died of natural causes in his early eighties. Ian Worthington's Ptolemy I--the first full-length biography of its kind in English--traces the life of Ptolemy from his boyhood to his reign as king and pharaoh of Egypt. Throughout, he highlights the achievements that profoundly shaped both Egypt's history and that of the early Hellenistic world. He argues that Ptolemy was by far the greatest of Alexander's Successors, and that he was a conscious imperialist who even boldly attempted to seize Greece and Macedonia, and be a second Alexander.
Author | : Brian Muhs |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2016-08-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107113369 |
Download The Ancient Egyptian Economy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.
Author | : Walter M. Ellis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134856415 |
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Ptolemy was the creator of the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms. He created a state whose cultural importance was unparalleled until the coming of Rome. He encouraged the erection of the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, as well as creating a library which eventually contained the greatest collection of books until relatively recent times. Ptolemy's institution of higher learning, the Museum, gave birth to the greatest advancements in science before the seventeenth century of our own era. In this work, the first biography of Ptolemy in any language, Professor Ellis charts Ptolemy's extraordinary achievements in and beyond Egypt in the context of the fragmentation of Alexander's enormous empire and the creation of the Hellenistic state.
Author | : Paul McKechnie |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2018-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004367624 |
Download Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404-282 BCE Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Amyrtaeus, only pharaoh of the Twenty-eighth Dynasty, shook off the shackles of Persian rule in 404 BCE; a little over seventy years later, Ptolemy son of Lagus started the ‘Greek millennium’ (J.G. Manning’s phrase) in Egypt―living long enough to leave a powerful kingdom to his youngest son, Ptolemy II, in 282. In this book, expert studies document the transformation of Egypt through the dynamic fourth century, and the inauguration of the Ptolemaic state. Ptolemy built up his position as ruler subtly and steadily. Continuity and change marked the Egyptian-Greek encounter. The calendar, the economy and coinage, the temples, all took on new directions. In the great new city of Alexandria, the settlers’ burial customs had their own story to tell.
Author | : J. G. Manning |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2012-10-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691156387 |
Download The Last Pharaohs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents a history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, covering such topics as economic conditions, order and law, and politics.
Author | : Timothy Howe |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Pharaohs |
ISBN | : 9781789250428 |
Download Ptolemy I Soter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the ways in which Alexander the Great's most successful Successor, Ptolemy I Soter, created his own literary, dynastic, artistic, and political legacy.
Author | : Walter M. Ellis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134856423 |
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Ptolemy was the creator of the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms. He created a state whose cultural importance was unparalleled until the coming of Rome. He encouraged the erection of the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, as well as creating a library which eventually contained the greatest collection of books until relatively recent times. Ptolemy's institution of higher learning, the Museum, gave birth to the greatest advancements in science before the seventeenth century of our own era. In this work, the first biography of Ptolemy in any language, Professor Ellis charts Ptolemy's extraordinary achievements in and beyond Egypt in the context of the fragmentation of Alexander's enormous empire and the creation of the Hellenistic state.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2019-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004407677 |
Download Empires of the Sea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.
Author | : Edwyn Robert Bevan |
Publisher | : Ares Pub |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : 9780890055366 |
Download The House of Ptolemy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle