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This book examines the causes and courses of the series of wars in the Hellenistic period fought between the kingdom of the Seleukids and the Ptolemies over possession of Syria. This is a subject always mentioned by historians of the period in a glancing or abbreviated way, but which is actually who...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grainger, John D., 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 320.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity.
Temas:
Ptolemaic dynasty, > 305-30 B.C.
Ptolémées (Dynastie)
333 B.C.-634 A.D
Seleucids > History.
Séleucides > Histoire.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Seleucids
Syrische Kriege
Syria > History, Military.
Syria > History > 333 B.C.-634 A.D.
Syrie > Histoire > 333 av. J.-C.-634.
Syria
History
Military history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Syria's importance revealed
  • Syria divided
  • Cold war
  • The new kings, and the first Syrian war
  • Competitive developing
  • The second Syrian war
  • Increasing strains
  • The third war, the 'War of Laodike'
  • The Seleukid collapse
  • The fourth war
  • The reversal, the Ptolemaic collapse
  • The fifth war, the triumph of Antiochos III
  • Changing priorities
  • The sixth war, and the 'day of Eleusis'
  • Mutual troubles and a new agenda
  • The seventh war, the triumph of Ptolemy Philometor
  • The legacy of Philometor
  • The eighth war, the last chance for union
  • The ninth, and last, war.

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