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Alexandria, the Golden City, Vol. I - The City of the Ptolemies

Author : Harold T. Davis
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787202593
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Alexandria, the Golden City, Vol. I - The City of the Ptolemies written by Harold T. Davis and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in two volumes in 1957, this is the first volume devoted to the rich history of the ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria and focuses on the time of the Ptolemies. “This book is dedicated to the story of Alexandria, called by Athenaeus “the golden city.” The story of Athens has been told by many writers; the rise and fall of Home has been the favorite theme of the historians; but the city of Alexandria has never had an extensive biography. This is a curious fact, indeed, since Alexandria, founded in 332 B.C. by Alexander the Great, developed into regal magnificence under the Macedonian Ptolemies, and for nearly a thousand years was one of the most remarkable cities in the world. The infirmities of old age came upon it near the close of the Roman Empire and the weary city finally passed into oblivion about 646 A.D. when the Saracen invaders destroyed at last the monuments of its old-world glory. Thus stretches the biography of Alexandria across ten of the most interesting centuries in human history!” Richly illustrated throughout with maps, pictures and figures.

Memphis Under the Ptolemies

Author : Dorothy J. Thompson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843057
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Memphis Under the Ptolemies written by Dorothy J. Thompson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.

Settlements of the Ptolemies

Author : Katja Mueller
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042917095
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Settlements of the Ptolemies written by Katja Mueller and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike the Seleukid's the Ptolemies did not at first glance create numerous eye-catching cities.

The Ancient Egyptian Economy

Author : Brian Muhs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107113369
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Economy written by Brian Muhs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.

Empires of the Sea

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004407677
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Empires of the Sea written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile

Author : Kostas Buraselis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107355516
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile written by Kostas Buraselis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea – both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea – and the Nile, this book offers a new and original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key period of Hellenistic history. Within the developing Aegean empire of the Ptolemies, the role of the navy is examined together with that of its admirals. Egypt's close relationship to Rhodes is subjected to scrutiny, as is the constant threat of piracy to the transport of goods on the Nile and by sea. Along with the trade in grain came the exchange of other products. Ptolemaic kings used their wealth for luxury ships and the dissemination of royal portraiture was accompanied by royal cult. Alexandria, the new capital of Egypt, attracted poets, scholars and even philosophers; geographical exploration by sea was a feature of the period and observations of the time enjoyed a long afterlife.

Portraits of the Ptolemies

Author : Paul Edmund Stanwick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292787472
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of the Ptolemies written by Paul Edmund Stanwick and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As archaeologists recover the lost treasures of Alexandria, the modern world is marveling at the latter-day glory of ancient Egypt and the Greeks who ruled it from the ascension of Ptolemy I in 306 B.C. to the death of Cleopatra the Great in 30 B.C. The abundance and magnificence of royal sculptures from this period testify to the power of the Ptolemaic dynasty and its influence on Egyptian artistic traditions that even then were more than two thousand years old. In this book, Paul Edmund Stanwick undertakes the first complete study of Egyptian-style portraits of the Ptolemies. Examining one hundred and fifty sculptures from the vantage points of literary evidence, archaeology, history, religion, and stylistic development, he fully explores how they meld Egyptian and Greek cultural traditions and evoke surrounding social developments and political events. To do this, he develops a "visual vocabulary" for reading royal portraiture and discusses how the portraits helped legitimate the Ptolemies and advance their ideology. Stanwick also sheds new light on the chronology of the sculptures, giving dates to many previously undated ones and showing that others belong outside the Ptolemaic period.

The House of Ptolemy

Author : Edwyn Robert Bevan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The House of Ptolemy written by Edwyn Robert Bevan and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alexandria, the Golden City V1

Author : Harold T. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258125103
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Alexandria, the Golden City V1 written by Harold T. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Two Volumes. Volume 1, The City Of The Ptolemies; Volume 2, Cleopatra's City.

Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404-282 BCE

Author : Paul McKechnie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004367624
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404-282 BCE by : Paul McKechnie

Download or read book Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404-282 BCE written by Paul McKechnie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven studies document the transformation of Egypt through the dynamic fourth century, and the inauguration of the Ptolemaic state. After Alexander the Great, Ptolemy son of Lagus established himself as ruler. Continuity and change marked the Egyptian-Greek encounter.

Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires

Author : Christelle Fischer-Bovet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108479251
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires by : Christelle Fischer-Bovet

Download or read book Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires written by Christelle Fischer-Bovet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comparative analysis of the role of local elites and populations in the formation of the two main Hellenistic empires.

Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra

Author : Michel Chauveau
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801485763
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra written by Michel Chauveau and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few other civilizations rival Ancient Egypt in its power to capture the modern imagination, and Cleopatra VII, monarch at the end of the Ptolemaic period, has always been preeminent among its cast of characters. Coming to power just before the unstable state was about to be absorbed into an autocratic empire, Cleopatra oversaw not only Egypt's progress as an influential regional power but also the fragile peace of its ethnically mixed population.Michel Chauveau looks at many facets of life under this queen and her dynasty, drawing on such sources as firsthand accounts, numismatics, and Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. His use of such sources helps to free the narrative of dependence on later (and usually hostile) Greek and Roman historians. By taking up such subjects as funeral customs, language and writing, social class structure, religion, and administration, he affords the reader an unprecedented and comprehensive picture of Greek and Egyptian life in both the cities and the countryside.Originally published in French in 1997, Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra fulfills a long-standing need for an accessible introduction to the social, economic, religious, military, and cultural history of Ptolemaic Egypt.

The city of the Ptolemies

Author : Harold Thayer Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The city of the Ptolemies written by Harold Thayer Davis and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, C. 300 B.C. to A.D. 700

Author : Judith McKenzie
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300115550
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, C. 300 B.C. to A.D. 700 written by Judith McKenzie and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as of the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millennium—from the city’s founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A.D. 642. Long considered lost beyond recall, the architecture of ancient Alexandria has until now remained mysterious. But here Judith McKenzie shows that it is indeed possible to reconstruct the city and many of its buildings by means of meticulous exploration of archaeological remains, written sources, and an array of other fragmentary evidence. The book approaches its subject at the macro- and the micro-level: from city-planning, building types, and designs to architectural style. It addresses the interaction between the imported Greek and native Egyptian traditions; the relations between the architecture of Alexandria and the other cities and towns of Egypt as well as the wider Mediterranean world; and Alexandria’s previously unrecognized role as a major source of architectural innovation and artistic influence. Lavishly illustrated with new plans of the city in the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine periods; reconstruction drawings; and photographs, the book brings to life the ancient city and uncovers the true extent of its architectural legacy in the Mediterranean world.

Alexandria and Alexandrianism

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892362928
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Alexandria and Alexandrianism written by J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great seats of learning and repositories of knowledge in the ancient world, Alexandria, and the great school of thought to which it gave its name, made a vital contribution to the development of intellectual and cultural heritage in the Occidental world. This book brings together twenty papers delivered at a symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum on the subject of Alexandria and Alexandrianism. Subjects range from “The Library of Alexandria and Ancient Egyptian Learning” and “Alexander’s Alexandria” to “Alexandria and the Origins of Baroque Architecture.” With nearly two hundred illustrations, this handsome volume presents some of the world’s leading scholars on the continuing influence and fascination of this great city. The distinguished contributors include Peter Green, R. R. R. Smith, and the late Bernard Bothmer.

The city of the Ptolemies

Author : Harold T. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The city of the Ptolemies written by Harold T. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ptolemies, Rise of a Dynasty

Author : John D. Grainger
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399090232
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Ptolemies, Rise of a Dynasty written by John D. Grainger and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Thoroughly ‘reader friendly’ in organization and presentation . . . an ideal introduction to the creation and rise of the Ptolemaic era of Egypt.” —Midwest Book Review In this first volume of his trilogy on the Ptolemies, John Grainger explains how Ptolemy I established the dynasty’s power in Egypt in the wake of Alexander the Great’s death. Egypt had been independent for most of the fourth century BC, but was reconquered by the Persian Empire in the 340s. This is essential background for Ptolemaic history, since it meant that Alexander was welcomed as a liberator and, after the tyranny of Kleomenes, so was Ptolemy. This was the essential basis of Ptolemy’s power. He conciliated the Egyptians, but reinforced his military strength with Greek settlers, mainly retired or available soldiers. He built the city of Alexandria, but to his own requirements, not those planned by Alexander. The empire outside Egypt was acquired, perhaps for defense, perhaps by sheer greed. Ptolemy took over Cyrenaica (with difficulty), Cyprus, and Syria/Palestine. These had to be defended against his rivals, hence the development of his navy, and the Syrian Wars. The succession was carefully managed, but not directly hereditary (Ptolemy II wasn’t the eldest son), and the new king was very different. He fought repeated wars in Syria, built up his navy in the Aegean to the greatest seen in the ancient world, and extended his empire into the lands of the Red Sea, Sudan, and Ethiopia. He taxed the Egyptians mercilessly to fund all these activities. Yet few of his wars were successful, and he stored up trouble for his successors. This volume by a historian of the period delves into these events in a clear, compelling style.