...This chapter discusses the exploration of Rome's Egyptian frontier and how, for more than 5,000 years, Egypt has enchanted humankind. Political strife, economic problems, and occasional civil wars began to weaken the Ptolemaic dynasty by the second century bc. Egypt fell increasingly under...

... of the book is that Jews, as a minority people in the ancient world, could suffer discrimination, but if they are pious and loyal to God, he will deliver them from oppression. 3 Maccabees Egyptian Judaism Dionysus Ptolemy IV Philopater Ptolemaic dynasty 3 Maccabees is a strange and entertaining story...

... by Alexander the Great of Macedon. At the breakup of that great conqueror's empire, Egypt fell into the hands of his general, Ptolemy, son of Lagos, who founded a Hellenistic line that was to control Egypt for three centuries. The tail end of the Ptolemaic Dynasty brought Egypt to Rome's attention...

... that contemporary issues of patronage and Ptolemaic geopolitics influenced the poet’s treatment of older themes. Time and space are collapsed. Set against the tribulations of the Ptolemaic dynasty in the mid-third century, Callimachus’ Hymn to Artemis emerges not as a purely literary reworking...

... of the Ptolemaic dynasty which are key sources for understanding the coexistence of two different cultures and the impact of Ptolemaic rule and Greek immigration in Egypt....

... Tebtynis Ptolemaic Dynasty “Cornelius to his sweetest son, Hierax, greeting…. Take care not to offend any of the persons at home” (P.Oxy. 3.531, second century CE). As indicated in ancient Egyptian texts, the house was viewed as a place of peace, rest, fortune, and safety for all members...

...This chapter examines the history of, and the important factors that contributed to, state formation in ancient Egypt during the period from around 3500 BCE to the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty in 30 BCE. It explains that there are four major cycles of centralization and three...