Preliminary Material /J.D. Grainger -- Introduction /J.D. Grainger -- Prologue: Syria's Importance Revealed /J.D. Grainger -- Chapter One. Syria Divided /J.D. Grainger -- Chapter Two. Cold War /J.D. Grainger -- Chapter Three. The New Kings, And The First Syrian War /J.D. Grainge…
The Syrian wars
by ProQuest (Firm), Grainger, John D.
fromMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava
Prologue: Syria's importance revealed -- Syria divided -- Cold war -- The new kings and the first Syrian war -- Competitive developing -- The second Syrian war -- Increasing strains -- The third war : the "War of Laodike"--The Seleukid collapse -- The fourth war -- The reversal …
This book examines the causes and courses of the series of wars in the Hellenistic period fought between the kingdom of the Seleukids and the Ptolemies over possession of Syria. This is a subject always mentioned by historians of the period in a glancing or abbreviated way, but …
"The book contains twelve chapters, by various authors, discussing aspects of the Greek and Egyptian bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, from the conquest by Alexander the Great (332 BC) to the death of Kleopatra VII (30 BC). It is inten…