Contents

pp v-vi

Original Sources of Chapters

pp vii-viii

List of illustrations

pp ix-x

Glossary

pp xi-xv

Maps

pp xvi-xviii

Foreword

pp xix-xx

Introduction: Jean Bingen and the currents of Ptolemaic history

pp 1-12

Part I - The Monarchy

pp 13-14

1 - Ptolemy I and the quest for legitimacy

pp 15-30

2 - Ptolemy III and Philae: snapshot of a reign, a temple, and a cult

pp 31-43

3 - Cleopatra, the diadem and the image

pp 44-56

4 - Cleopatra VII Philopatris

pp 57-62

5 - The dynastic politics of Cleopatra VII

pp 63-80

Part II - The Greeks

pp 81-82

6 - The Thracians in Ptolemaic Egypt

pp 83-93

7 - Ptolemaic papyri and the Achaean diaspora in Hellenistic Egypt

pp 94-103

8 - Greek presence and the Ptolemaic rural setting

pp 104-113

9 - The urban milieu in the Egyptian countryside during the Ptolemaic period

pp 114-121

10 - Kerkeosiris and its Greeks in the second century

pp 122-131

11 - The cavalry settlers of the Herakleopolite in the first century

pp 132-140

12 - Two royal ordinances of the first century and the Alexandrians

pp 141-154

Part III - The Royal Economy

pp 155-156

13 - The Revenue Laws Papyrus: Greek tradition and Hellenistic adaptation

pp 157-188

14 - The structural tensions of Ptolemaic society

pp 189-205

15 - The third-century land-leases from Tholthis

pp 206-212

Part IV - Greeks and Egyptians

pp 213-214

16 - Greek economy and Egyptian society in the third century

pp 215-228

17 - Greeks and Egyptians according to PSI V 502

pp 229-239

18 - Graeco-Roman Egypt and the question of cultural interactions

pp 240-255