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

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"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 rol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Buraselis, Kostas (Editor ), Stefanou, Mary (Editor ), Thompson, Dorothy J., 1939- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Ptolemaic dynasty, > 305-30 B.C.
Ptolémées (Dynastie)
To 1500
Sea-power > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Piracy > Egypt > History > To 1500.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
International relations
Piracy
Sea-power
Egypt > History, Naval.
Mediterranean Sea > History.
Red Sea > History.
Nile River > History.
Egypt > Relations > Greece > Rhodes.
Rhodes (Greece) > Relations > Egypt.
Rouge, Mer > Histoire.
Nil (Fleuve) > Histoire.
Egypt
Greece > Rhodes
Mediterranean Sea
Nile River
Red Sea
History
Naval history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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