PAAH #2: Alan Samuels, The Shifting Sands of History

100 Pages·2014·34.49 MB·English

THE SHIFTING SANDS
OF HISTORY:
INTERPRETATIONS OF
PTOLEMAIC EGYPT
Publications of the
Association of
Ancient Historians 2
Alan E. Samuel
University of Toronto
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Samuel, Alan Edouard.
The shifting sands of history : interpretations of Ptolemaic Egypt
/ Alan E. Samuel,
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(Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians ; 2)
Bibliography: p.
1. Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C. 2. Egypt— History— 332 B.C.-
30 B.C. I. Title. II. Series.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The present volume is the second in the series Publications of
the Association of Ancient Historians. The publications committee of
the Association, Stanley M. Burstein of California State Univer-
sity, Los Angeles, John W. Eadie of Michigan State University
and I, wish to express our thanks to Alan E. Samuel of the
University of Toronto for contributing this essay on revisionist
interpretations of Ptolemaic Egypt.
The manuscript was produced by the author on a Macintosh
computer using Microsoft Word 1. The files were updated to
Microsoft Word 3.01 for editing and formatting on a Macintosh
II computer, from which camera-ready copy was set in New
Baskerville on an Apple LaserWriter Plus printer.
My Penn State colleague, Paul B. Harvey, Jr., once again
shared editorial and proof-reading tasks with me in the
production of this series. Scott Camp of the Center for Computing
Assistance in Liberal Arts at Penn State handled the computer
files and set up the copy, and Dawn Detwiler of the University
Press of America provided production assistance and advice
during the preparation of this volume for publication.
Eugene N. Borza, President
Association of Ancient Historians
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements V
Preface ix
Abbreviations and Bibliographical Supplement xiii
I. Modern Views of the Period After Alexander 1
II. The Successors of Alexander 13
III. Two Solitudes 35
IV. The Macedonian Administration of Egypt 51
V. The Ideology of Ptolemaic Monarchy 67
VI. Ptolemaic Egypt and Historical Interpretation 83
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