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 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.