The Ptolemies, the sea and the Nile : studies in waterborne power
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Buraselis, Kostas
Stefanou, Mary Thompson, Dorothy J., 1939- |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxi, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Egypt Rotes Meer |
| Parallelausgabe: |
The Ptolemies, the sea and the Nile : studies in waterborne power. [Electronic resource] |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 18 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface
- In memoriam F.W. Walbank / Christian Habicht
- 1. Introduction / Kostas Buraselis and Dorothy J. Thompson
- 2. The Ptolemaic League of Islanders / Andrew Meadows
- 3. Callicrates of Samos and Patroclus of Macedon : champions of Ptolemaic thalassocracy / Hans Hauben
- 4. Rhodes and the Ptolemaic kingdom : the commercial infrastructure / Vincent Gabrielsen
- 5. Polybius and Ptolemaic sea power / Andrew Erskine
- 6. Ptolemaic grain, seaways and power / Kostas Buraselis
- 7. Waterborne recruits : the military settlers of Ptolemaic Egypt / Mary Stefanou
- 8. Our academic visitor is missing : Posidippus 89 (A-B) and "smart capital" for the thalassocrats / Paul McKechnie
- 9. Aspects of the diffusion of Ptolemaic portraiture overseas / Olga Palagia
- 10. Ptolemies and piracy / Lucia Criscuolo
- 11. The Nile police in the Ptolemaic period / Thomas Kruse
- 12. Hellenistic royal barges / Dorothy J. Thompson
- 13. Eudoxus of Cyzicus and Ptolemaic exploration of the sea route to India / Christian Habicht
- 14. Timosthenes and Eratosthenes : sea routes and Hellenistic geography / Francesco Prontera
- 15. Claudius Ptolemy on Egypt and East Africa / Klaus Geus.
