The Syrian wars

The Syrian wars / by John D. Grainger.

This book examines the causes and courses of the series of wars in the Hellenistic period fought between the kingdom of the Seleukids and the Ptolemies over possession of Syria. This is a subject always mentioned by historians of the period in a glancing or abbreviated way, but which is actually who...

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Main Author: Grainger, John D., 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 320.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity.
Subjects:
Ptolemaic dynasty, > 305-30 B.C.
333 B.C.-634 A.D
Seleucids > History.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Seleucids
Syrische Kriege
Syria > History, Military.
Syria > History > 333 B.C.-634 A.D.
Syria
History
Military history
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Summary:This book examines the causes and courses of the series of wars in the Hellenistic period fought between the kingdom of the Seleukids and the Ptolemies over possession of Syria. This is a subject always mentioned by historians of the period in a glancing or abbreviated way, but which is actually wholly central to the development of both kingdoms and of the period as a whole. Other than relatively brief summaries no serious account has ever been produced. This extended consideration will bring to the centre of research on the Hellinistic period this long sequence of wars. Arguably they were the.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 447 pages) : maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-430) and index.
ISBN:9789004188310
9004188312
1282951548
9781282951549
ISSN:0169-8958 ;
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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