Hellenistic

There are 1575 items in Hellenistic:

Prytanis

Prytanis (Greek: πρύτανις): highest executive official in a Greek city, usually serving for one year. The Prytaneum of Sagalassus The original meaning of…

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Ptolemaic kings and queens

Ptolemies: name of the last dynasty of independent Egypt, of Macedonian descent. Ptolemy I Soter Married to: (1) Apame; (2) Artacama; (3) Eurydice; (4) Berenice I late summer 306 - 27 January 282 Ptolemy II Philadelphus Married to: (1) Arsinoe I; (2) Arsinoe II 27 January 282 - 28 January 246 Ptolemy…

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Ptolemais (Tolmeitha)

Ptolemais: port in the Cyrenaica.Ptolemais was a city in the Cyrenaica. For a very long time, it was not a rival to Cyrene or Apollonia, but it still was an important port. In the fifth centyry, however, when Libyan nomads took…

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Ptolemies

Ptolemies: name of the last dynasty of independent Egypt, of Macedonian descent. Ptolemy I Soter In 332, the Macedonian king Alexander the…

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Ptolemy I Soter

Ptolemy I Soter (367-282): friend and biographer of the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great, after his death king of Egypt, founder of the the Ptolemaic dynasty, one of the Diadochi.Early career …

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