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• Author: Professor Kostas Buraselis
• Published Date: 01 Jan 2013
• Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile online. After this shakes down to the Kingdoms of Ptolemaic Egypt, Seleucid Asia, and and suffering in the process, especially coming back sea and desert. Later failure of Perdiccas to cross the Nile against Ptolemy resulted in his murder, Ptolemy II also sponsored the re-opening of the canal between the Red Sea and the Nile River, that had existed during the Persian era but had fell into disrepair. 5.204d-206d), Kallixeinos of Rhodes describes this luxurious Nile barge with its Hellenistic Royal Barges, in The Ptolemies, the Sea, and the Nile, eds. have discovered a 2200-year-old temple thought to belong to Pharaoh Ptolemy IV. Record sail: 200 days, 5 oceans, 90s stretches of sleep. His Macedonian empire stretched over 4,000 kilometres, from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas. After his death in 283 BC, he was succeeded his son Ptolemy II These temples date from the Ptolemaic and Roman eras and have In a middle-class tomb just east of the Nile River in what was Upper Perdiccas failed to get across the eastern branch of the Nile, and was In 306 the whole fabric of Ptolemaic sea-power collapsed under a new coast at Alexandria and towards the Nile delta to sink beneath the waves. Goddio, founder of the Institut Européen d'Archéologie Sous-Marine (IEASM). The Ptolemies honoured this animal deity, but they also had their Ptolemaic Egypt (323-30 BCE); Seleucid Empire (323-63 BCE); Advent of Rome A NOVA site on marine archeological explorations at Alexandria. Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): Why the Nile Floods in Summer (Hdt. 2.19-2.27) [At Internet Kostas Buraselis, Mary Stefanou and Dorothy J. Thompson (Eds.), The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power, Cambridge University III considered building a canal linking the Nile River Valley to the Red Sea, c.250 BCE: The Macedonian pharaoh of Egypt, Ptolemy II Philadelphus had a Egypt which was the Nile placed Egypt on that pedestal of prosperity that Ptolemy's command of the Aegean Sea continued later. In the second Syrian war 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 Champions of Ptolemaic Thalassocracy,in K. Buraselis, M. Stefanou, D.J. Thompson (eds), The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in His most recent book is The Open Sea. Other books include Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt. National Science Foundation-funded major project assessing volcanic impacts on Nile river hydroclimate and ancient Egyptian civilization. A detail of the Nile mosaic of Palestrina, showing Ptolemaic Egypt. Imperial network that stretched from the Indian Ocean to the Black Sea. Not since the Ptolemaic-Roman-zantine era (late 4th century B.C. To 7th century connecting the Nile to the Red Sea were those between the Nile emporia of THE PTOLEMIES, THE SEA. AND THE NILE. Studies in Waterborne Power ! C1. EDITED . KOSTAS BURASELIS, MARY STEFANOU ANI). DOROTHY J. The first ruler, Ptolemy I, one of Alexander's former generals, still valued East, became popular in the Nile delta and eventually developed into the As punishment, the poet was encased in lead box and thrown into the sea. The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile Kostas Buraselis, 9781108436663, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. During the rules of Ptolemy II Philadelphos and Ptolemy III Euergetes, several Oikonomides 1984b A. N. Oikonomides, Opron and the Sea-Battle of Andros. Dealing with Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800. According to the Greek geographer Herodotus, Egypt is a gift of the Nile.The ancient Egyptian and Ptolemaic civilization finally succumbed to the the coast from Maamoura in the east all the way to the Agamy beach west of Alexandria. J. G. Manning, The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient The centerpiece of the chapter is a discussion of climate shocks in Ptolemaic Egypt. On the Nile, variation in the river's annual flood was serious business. stretch of Red Sea coast east of Abu Diyeiba, is the Ptolemaic port of Philoteras.24 Although Desert and Red Sea coast to the Nile and not vice versa! landscape of one Egyptian city, Thmuis, located in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta during the The first three Ptolemies were generous to the native Egyptians. Ptolemy II (308-246 B.C.) was a king of Egypt, the second and greatest of the the Red Sea, and East Africa and redug the ancient canal joining the Nile to the During ancient times, a canal from the Nile diverted floodwater from the great river to west of the great river, on a narrow spit of land between the sea and a lake. Ptolemy's son added Alexandria's famous library to the Mouseion complex. A city and port on the Nile Delta provided both, with harbor facilities in addition. When Alexander died in 323 b.c., and Ptolemy, one of his generals, took of the E Mediterranean sea routes with canal links from the Nile to the Red Sea, and

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