- 305 BC he
declared himself Pharaoh Ptolemy I,
later known as Sōter "Saviour". The
Egyptians soon
accepted the
Ptolemies as the
successors to the pharaohs...
-
Claudius Ptolemy (/ˈtɒləmi/; Gr****: Πτολεμαῖος, Ptolemaios; Latin:
Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. 100 – c. 170 AD) was an
Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer...
- The
Ptolemies therefore limited the
number of Gr**** city-states in
Egypt to Alexandria, Ptolemais, and Naucratis.
Outside of Egypt, the
Ptolemies exercised...
- Stuart, Reginald; L,
Poole (1883). BMC Gr**** (
Ptolemies) /
Catalogue of Gr**** coins: the
Ptolemies,
kings of Egypt. The Trustees. p. 122. Sear. Gr****...
- (1911). "
Ptolemies". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.).
Cambridge University Press. pp. 616–618. Ellis,
Walter M. (1994).
Ptolemy of Egypt....
-
theorem is
named after the Gr****
astronomer and
mathematician Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus).
Ptolemy used the
theorem as an aid to
creating his
table of chords...
-
possibility that they
might forced the
following Ptolemies to
adopt a
careful and
respectful policy towards Rome.
Ptolemy XII
continued this pro-Roman
policy in...
- In Gr**** mythology,
Ptolemy or
Ptolomeus (/ˈtɒləmi/;Ancient Gr****: Πτολεμαῖος) was an
ancestral ruler of Thebes, in
ancient Greece living in the 12th...
-
Antiochus refused to
consider returning Seleucia Pieria to the
Ptolemies,
while Ptolemy IV
demanded that
Antiochus III
recognise Achaeus, the de facto...
-
column 1759–1760. Mahaffy, John
Pentland (2014) [1895]. The
Empire of the
Ptolemies.
Cambridge Library Collection. Cambridge,
England and New York: Cambridge...
