Description: Ptolemy I : King and Pharaoh of Egypt, Hardcover by Worthington, Ian, ISBN 0190202335, ISBN-13 9780190202330, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 Alexanders 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 Egypts 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 Alexanders 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 Worthingtons 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 Egypts history and that of the early Hellenistic world.
He argues that Ptolemy was by far the greatest of Alexanders Successors, and that he was a conscious imperialist who even boldly attempted to seize Greece and Macedonia, and be a second Alexander.
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Book Title: Ptolemy I : King and Pharaoh of Egypt
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Ptolemy I : King and Pharaoh of Egypt
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Cultural Heritage, Ancient / Greece, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient / Egypt, Military, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt)
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Author: Ian Worthington
Subject Area: Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 6.1 in
Item Width: 9.4 in
Format: Hardcover
