A History of Egypt

Volume 4, Under the Ptolemaic Dynasty
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-108-06567-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology

Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the world's oldest civilisations. At the forefront of this research was Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), whose pioneering methods made Near Eastern archaeology a much more systematic and scientific discipline. Many of his other publications are also reissued in this series. Britain's first professor of Egyptology from 1892, Petrie was conscious of the fact that there was no textbook he could recommend to his students. The work of Weidemann was in German and out of date, so Petrie and his collaborators incorporated the latest theories and discoveries in this English-language resource. Volume 4 (1899), written by John Pentland Mahaffy (1839-1919), covers the Ptolemaic dynasty, from 332 to 30 BCE.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahaffy, John Pentland

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Authorities; 2. Financial devices of Cleomenes; 3. Accession of Ptolemy II; 4. Accession of Ptolemy III; 5. Accession of Ptolemy IV; 6. Accession of Ptolemy V; 7. Regency of Cleopatra I; 8. Cleopatra II and her son Ptolemy VIII; 9. Apion of Cyrene; 10. Accession of Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIV; Appendix; Index.