The Ptolemies, the sea and the Nile : studies in waterborne power /

The Ptolemies, the sea and the Nile : studies in waterborne power /

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Other Authors: Buraselis, Kostas, Stefanou, Mary., Thompson, Dorothy, 1939-

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Subjects:

Ptolemaic dynasty, > 305-30 B.C.
Piracy > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Sea-power > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Egypt > History, Naval.
Egypt > Relations > Greece > Rhodes.
Mediterranean Sea > History.
Nile River > History.
Red Sea > History.
Rhodes (Greece) > Relations > Egypt.

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Call Number: DT92 .P79

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245 0 4 |a The Ptolemies, the sea and the Nile :   |b studies in waterborne power /   |c edited by Kostas Buraselis, Mary Stefanou and Dorothy J. Thompson. 
264 1 |a Cambridge, England :   |b Cambridge University Press,   |c 2013. 
300 |a xxi, 274 pages :   |b illustrations, maps ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: Preface -- In memoriam F.W. Walbank / Christian Habicht -- 1. Introduction / Kostas Buraselis and Dorothy J. Thompson -- 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. 
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