![]() ![]() The second looks at the larger Hellenistic warships, a major feature of the Ptolemaic navy. The first is a look at Julius Caesar's campaign in Alexandria, looking at the problems even an experienced Roman commander and army faced when fighting in a vast urban area. ![]() Two articles from the theme stood out for me. The Seleucid Empire was larger at its greatest extent, but didn't last as long, and was often rather unstable. Ptolemy I founded the most long-lived of the major Hellenistic dynasties, as well as the last of the Egyptian dynasties, and at its peak the Ptolemaic Egypt covered a vast area, including possessions in the Adriatic, large parts of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine and Libya as far west as Benghazi. ![]() It is nice to have an issue focusing on Ptolemaic Egypt in its own right, rather than as part of someone else's story (either as part of the collapse of the empire of Alexander the Great, the Rise of Rome, or a coda to the history of Ancient Egypt). Ancient Warfare Vol X, Issue 2: Wars in Hellenistic Egypt, kingdom of the Ptolemies ![]()
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