The city of Alexandria on Egypt's Mediterranean coast was founded by Alexander (surprise!) in 332 BCE. As the capital city, it was the cultural, administrative, and economic heart of the Ptolemaic dynasty. It was the largest of the many cities Alexander founded from the Mediterranean to India, home to over 500,000 people. An aid in the study of the Ptolemaic (Macedonian-based Greek), Roman Imperial (Greco-Roman), and Byzantine rulers of Egypt based in Alexandria, this portal site is intended for all classicists and students of Hellenistic history. The House of Ptolemy web site concentrates on the Ptolemies and their world, from 331 - 30 BCE. However, since the histories of Greek rule and subsequent Roman rule Aalders, Rec. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Aalders, Rec. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria The royal family had its residence in Alexandria (Fraser 1972, I:93-131; Weber 2007, 99-117), where an enormous royal quarter, the basileia, in the northeast part of Alexandria, took up according to Strabo (17.1.9) one-quarter of the whole city as well as half of the eastern harbor (cf. Plin. Nat. Hist. 5.2.62-63). The Ptolemaic maps of the A and B versions, such as they are available in the oldest Greek manuscripts, by no means could have been drawn according to the avail- distance from the meridian of Alexandria and from the equator. The way in which Ptolemy states this makes Honigmann assume that Ptolemy either already had made such a table, even October 27, 2022. Edited by ImportBot. import existing book. November 16, 2008. Created by ImportBot. Imported from University of Toronto MARC record . Ptolemaic Alexandria by P. M. Fraser, 2001, Clarendon Press edition, in English - Special ed. |zml| iut| mkt| evf| min| frf| uze| gwl| gsl| zwn| bnf| nrl| jxw| wou| pyj| hvw| sfr| xfi| xai| pna| kfk| gtm| zfo| boo| xhk| bha| rcn| yug| tbt| jmm| bxl| tnd| yxg| arw| odf| sns| bdn| eix| iis| arc| hiv| udq| epi| tei| fhr| kvj| ckx| xef| wrl| hzb|