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Index
Coverpage
The Ptolemies, The Sea and The Nile
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of illustrations
Maps
Figures
Tables
Notes on contributors
Preface
List of abbreviations
In memoriam F. W. Walbank
1 Introduction
2 The Ptolemaic League of Islanders
3 Callicrates of Samos and Patroclus of Macedon, champions of Ptolemaic thalassocracy
4 Rhodes and the Ptolemaic kingdom: the commercial infrastructure
5 Polybius and Ptolemaic sea power
6 Ptolemaic grain, seaways and power
7 Waterborne recruits: the military settlers of Ptolemaic Egypt
8 Our Academic visitor is missing: Posidippus 89 (A–B) and ‘smart capital’ for the thalassocrats
9 Aspects of the diffusion of Ptolemaic portraiture overseas
10 Ptolemies and piracy
11 The Nile police in the Ptolemaic period
12 Hellenistic royal barges
13 Eudoxus of Cyzicus and Ptolemaic exploration of the sea route to India
14 Timosthenes and Eratosthenes: sea routes and Hellenistic geography
15 Claudius Ptolemy on Egypt and East Africa
Bibliography
Index
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