Format:
Online-Ressource (298 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107033351
Content:
How the power of the Ptolemies depended upon control of waterways, the easiest form of communication in the ancient world
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Further abbreviations; In memoriam F. W. Walbank; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Ptolemaic League of Islanders; The Ptolemaic foundation of the League; Ptolemy Philadelphus and the foundation of the Nesiotic League; The end of Ptolemaic control of the League; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Callicrates of Samos and Patroclus of Macedon, champions of Ptolemaic thalassocracy; Appendix; The geographical and chronological setting of Sotades' execution: Kaunos or Kaudos?
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Chapter 4 Rhodes and the Ptolemaic kingdom: the commercial infrastructureIntroduction; The merchant's transaction costs; The protection route; The modalities of sea trade: a fourth-century innovation; Chapter 5 Polybius and Ptolemaic sea power; Structuring a narrative of decline; Ptolemaic naval activity in Polybius; Chapter 6 Ptolemaic grain, seaways and power; Egyptian grain exports before the Ptolemies; Production and export of grain in Ptolemaic Egypt; The wider framework of Ptolemaic foreign policy and grain; Conditions of safety for grain transport; Conclusions
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Chapter 7 Waterborne recruits: the military settlers of Ptolemaic EgyptGeneral introduction; The origin of Ptolemaic cleruchs; Macedonian cleruchs; Cleruchs from mainland Greece; Cleruchs from areas under Ptolemaic control; Conclusions; Chapter 8 Our Academic visitor is missing: Posidippus 89 (A-B) and -smart capital' for the thalassocrats; Chapter 9 Aspects of the diffusion of Ptolemaic portraiture overseas; Chapter 10 Ptolemies and piracy; Chapter 11 The Nile police in the Ptolemaic period; Chapter 12 Hellenistic royal barges
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Chapter 13 Eudoxus of Cyzicus and Ptolemaic exploration of the sea route to IndiaChapter 14 Timosthenes and Eratosthenes: sea routes and Hellenistic geography; Chapter 15 Claudius Ptolemy on Egypt and East Africa; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107345898
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107033351
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile : Studies in Waterborne Power
Language:
English
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