Research Catalog

Title

Ptolemy I and the transformation of Egypt, 404-282 BCE / edited by Paul McKechnie, Jennifer A. Cromwell.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• McKechnie, Paul, 1957-
• Cromwell, Jennifer

Description

x, 247 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm.

Summary

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 282.0In 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.

Series Statement

Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; volume 415

Uniform Title

• Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 415.
• Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity.

Subject

• Ptolemy I Soter, King of Egypt, -283 B.C
• To 30 B.C
• Egypt > History > 332-30 B.C
• Egypt > History > To 332 B.C
• Egypt
• Ägypten Altertum

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Paul McKechnie -- Ptolemy I in Egypt: continuity and change / Dorothy J. Thompson -- The Greek wars: the fight for Egypt / Paul McKechnie -- Soter and the calendars / Chris Bennett -- The role of coinage in the political economy of fourth century Egypt / Henry P. Colburn -- Pharaoh and temple-building in the fourth century BCE / Martina Minas-Nerpel -- The Satrap Stele of Ptolemy: a reassessment / Boyo G. Ockinga -- Cremation and cross-cultural interaction in early Ptolemaic Alexandria: cremation in context / Thomas Landvatter.

Call Number

JFE 18-9577

ISBN

• 9789004366961
• 9004366962

LCCN

• 2018016199
• 40028356697

OCLC

1028823188

Title

Ptolemy I and the transformation of Egypt, 404-282 BCE / edited by Paul McKechnie, Jennifer A. Cromwell.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; volume 415

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 415.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 30 B.C.

Added Author

McKechnie, Paul, 1957- editor.

Cromwell, Jennifer, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Ptolemy I and the transformation of Egypt, 404-282 BCE. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004367623 (DLC) 2018017559

Other Standard Identifier

40028356697

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9577