Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404-282 Bce

Seven studies document the transformation of Egypt through the dynamic fourth century, and the inauguration of the Ptolemaic state. After Alexander the Great, Ptolemy son of Lagus established himself as ruler. Continuity and change marked the Egyptian-Greek encounter.

About the author

Paul McKechnie, D.Phil. (1985), University College, Oxford, is Associate Professor (CoRE) in Ancient Cultures at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He has published on Greek and Roman history, and (with Philippe Guillaume) edited Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his World (Brill, 2008).
Jennifer A. Cromwell, PhD (2008), University of Liverpool, is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen. Her work focuses on Late Antique Egypt and she is the author of Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt (2017).

Contributors are: +Chris Bennett, Henry P. Colburn, Thomas Landvatter, Paul McKechnie, Martina Minas-Nerpel, Boyo G. Ockinga, Dorothy J. Thompson.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jennifer A Cromwell (Editor), Jennifer A. Cromwell (Editor), Paul Mckechnie (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2018
• EAN: 9789004366961
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36696-1
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 244 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 498 g
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity