Lecture 11 OHT

AHST 222 /322 Lecture 11: Modern Authors, People and Places.
The Ptolemies of Egypt Modern authors:

G. Shipley, The Greek World after Alexander, pp. 40ff., & ch. 6, pp. 192ff.
G. Bugh, The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World, pp. ???
A. Erskine, A Companion to the Hellenistic World, chs. 2-3, ch. 7.

R. Bagnall, The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions outside Egypt.
S.M. Burstein, “The Hellenistic Fringe: the Case of Meroë”, in P. Green, ed., Hellenistic History and Culture, pp. 38ff.
G. Cohen, “Colonisation and Population Transfer in the Hellenistic World”, in Egypt and the Hellenistic World, ed. E. van't Dack et al.
W.M. Ellis, Ptolemy of Egypt
P.M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria
P. Green, Alexander to Actium
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt: Case Studies in the Social History of the Hellenistic World, Oxford, 1986.
M.I. Rostovtzeff, Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World.
A.E. Samuel, From Athens to Alexandria: Hellenism and Social Goals in Ptolemaic Egypt, and The Shifting Sands of History: interpretations of Ptolemaic Egypt.

People and places:

Ptolemy I Soter = Ptolemy son of Lagus	Cleomenes of Naucratis	Triparadeisos: 321/20.
Perdiccas	Theocritus (court poet)	Antigonus
Eumenes	Demetrius Poliorcetes	Coele-Syria
Battle of Gaza, 312 B.C.	Cyrene	Ophellas
Agathocles of Syracuse	Ptolemy Magas	Demotic
Manetho of Heliopolis	Hecateus of Abdera	Megasthenes
Cleitarchus	Demetrius of Phaleron	Ptolemy II Philadelphos
Arsinoe	Zenon papyri	Nubia
Battle of Rapphia 217 B.C.	Antiochus III “the Great”	Antigonus Gonatas
Chremonides	The Chremonidean war, 268-2	Cilicia
Pamphylia	Berenike Syra	Ptolemy III Euergetes
Seleucus II	Achaean League	Ptolemy IV Philopator
Seleucia	Sosibius	Agathocles
Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 204-180	Cleopatra I	Ptolemy VI Philometor: 180-164
Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator 145	Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Physcon: 145-116	Ptolemy IX Soter II Lathyrus

The Ptolemaic Census decree, 258 B.C.; a Demotic copy.
The translation is adapted from S.M. Burstein, The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of Ipsos to the death of Kleopatra VII, Cambridge, 1985, Doc. 97, pp. 122-3.

Inventory of the royal domain. The inventory of which a written copy was ordered to be made so that it would be (possible)
to conduct an audit. Everything connected to it was delivered to Phoenix, the chief treasurer, in the 28th year, in the month of Thoth (November 258 B.C.),
of the king who was victorious over the Philopersian king
when he entered Syria. His scribes and district officials compiled it, from
Elephantine to the Mediterranean, in detail nome by nome, altogether 36 provinces. They declared and
reported concerning the water, (noting) when the basins (are full) and the flooded fields
are green, enumerating their water sources and levees. A census of Egypt was ordered,
specifying field by field, their irrigation possibilities, their location, their quality, their arable
portions, their relation to the property of the protector gods, their (common) borders with the fields
of the beneficences themselves and of the royal fields, specifying area by area the size of the parcels
and vineyards, noting when the fields of the area are dry – likewise the pastures – and the water channels, the fields
that are free and vacant, the high fields and the fields that are (artificially) irrigated,
their basins, and the embankments that are ploughed and cultivated, specifying orchard by orchard the trees with their fruits, the gardens, the high fields and the low parcels,
their footpaths, the list of leased parcels with their equipment, the decisions concerning price in connection with them,
the emoluments of the priests, the emoluments of the dependents of the reigning king, and, in addition, their taxes,
the total of the expenditures for the welfare of Egypt and its sublime freedom, of its cities
and of its temples.