Research Catalog

Title

Ptolemy I Soter : a self-made man / edited by Timothy Howe.

Publication

• Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Howe, Timothy

Description

x, 196 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

As the founder of the longest-lasting of all the Hellenistic kingdoms, not only was Ptolemy I an able soldier and ruler, he was also an historian and, in Egyptian eyes, a living god. His own inclination and experience facilitated continuous acts of self-creation in a variety of forms, whether literary, dynastic, artistic, or political. His work on Alexander and his campaigns was used by the later Alexander historians, and was one of Arrian's major sources for his Anabasis. In the pages of his own history, Ptolemy constructed a self-portrait characterized by military courage and deep friendship with Alexander. As ruler of the Egyptian kingdom, Ptolemy experienced an elevated model of kingship very different from the Macedonian one: he consciously embraced the divinity of the Pharaoh, a construct that had little to do with the real man who wore the crowns. This book, written by field experts in numismatics, gender, warfare, historiography, Egyptology and religion, examine the many ways in which Alexander the Great's most successful successor consciously made his own legacy.

Subjects

• Pharaohs
• Pharaohs > Biography
• Ptolemy > I Soter, > King of Egypt, > -283 B.C
• Biography

Genre/Form

Biography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Ptolemy: A Man of His Own Making / Waldemar Heckel ; 2. Ptolemy and the Destruction of the First Regency / Edward Anson ; 3. Building a Dynasty: The Families of Ptolemy I Soter / Sheila Ager ; 4. The Currency Reforms and Character of Ptolemy I Soter / Catherine Lorber ; 5. Ptolemy I: Politics, Religion and the Transition to Hellenistic Egypt / S. G. Caneva ; 6. Ptolemy Son of Lagos and the Egyptian Elite / Gilles Gorre ; 7. Kings Don't Lie: Truthtelling, Historiography and Ptolemy I Soter / Timothy Howe.

Call Number

JFE 19-3042

ISBN

• 1789250420
• 9781789250428

LCCN

2018956013

OCLC

1027821696

Title

Ptolemy I Soter : a self-made man / edited by Timothy Howe.

Publisher

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Howe, Timothy, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-3042