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Title The Ptolemies, the sea and the Nile : studies in waterborne power / edited by Kostas Buraselis, Mary Stefanou, Dorothy J. Thompson
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 274 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents In memoriam F.W. Walbank / Christian Habicht -- 1. Introduction / Dorothy J. Thompson and Kostas Buraselis -- 2. The Ptolemaic League of Islanders / Andrew Meadows -- 3. Callicrates of Samos and Patroclus of Macedon: champions of Ptolemaic thalassocracy / Hans Hauben -- 4. Rhodes and the Ptolemaic kingdom : the commercial infrastructure / Vincent Gabrielsen -- 5. Polybius and Ptolemaic sea power / Andrew Erskine -- 6. Ptolemaic grain, seaways and power / Kostas Buraselis -- 7. Waterborne recruits : the military settlers of Ptolemaic Egypt / Mary Stefanou -- 8. Our academic visitor is missing : Posidippus 89 (A-B) and "smart capital" for the thalassocrats / Paul McKechnie -- 9. Aspects of the diffusion of Ptolemaic portraiture overseas / Olga Palagia -- 10. Ptolemies and piracy / Lucia Criscuolo -- 11. The Nile police in the Ptolemaic period / Thomas Kruse -- 12. Hellenistic royal barges / Dorothy J. Thompson -- 13. Eudoxus of Cyzicus and Ptolemaic exploration of the sea route to India / Christian Habicht -- 14. Timosthenes and Eratosthenes : sea routes and Hellenistic geography / Francesco Prontera -- 15. Claudius Ptolemy on Egypt and East Africa / Klaus Geus
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-258) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C.
SUBJECT Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C. fast
Subject Sea-power -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
Piracy -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
International relations
Piracy
Sea-power
SUBJECT Egypt -- History, Naval
Mediterranean Sea -- History
Red Sea -- History
Nile River -- History
Egypt -- Relations -- Greece -- Rhodes
Rhodes (Greece) -- Relations -- Egypt
Subject Egypt
Greece -- Rhodes
Mediterranean Sea
Nile River
Red Sea
Genre/Form History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
Author Buraselis, Kostas, editor.
Stefanou, Mary, editor.
Thompson, Dorothy J., 1939- editor.
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