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[a] The new dynasty showed respect to local traditions and adopted the Egyptian titles and iconography, while also preserving their own Greek language and culture. [ 8 ] [ 6 ] The Ptolemaic period was marked by the intense interactions and blending of the Greek and Egyptian cultures. [ 9 ]
Ptolemy I Soter (/ ˈ t ɒ l əm i /; Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaîos Sōtḗr, "Ptolemy the Savior"; c. 367 BC – January 282 BC) was a Macedonian Greek [2] general, historian, and successor of Alexander the Great who went on to found the Ptolemaic Kingdom centered on Egypt.
The decree records the military success of Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe III and their benefactions to the Egyptian priestly elite. Throughout, Ptolemy IV is presented as taking on the role of Horus who avenges his father by defeating the forces of disorder led by the god Set. In return, the priests undertook to erect a statue group in each of their ...
And he is the craftsman and maker of this universe or world and the things within it." [1] This excerpt reflects Ptolemy's gnostic view that the god that created the world is not the Perfect God, but rather an inferior god who incorrectly believed that he was the one true God, which is what he is trying to convey to Flora.
Philotera (Greek: Φιλωτέρα, born 315/309 BC-probably after 282 BC and before 268 BC) [1] was a Greek Macedonian noblewoman and a Greek Egyptian princess of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Philotera was the daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and Berenice I of Egypt. [2]
Ptolemy V Epiphanes Eucharistus [note 1] [4] (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Ἐπιφανής Εὐχάριστος, Ptolemaĩos Epiphanḗs Eukháristos "Ptolemy the Manifest, the Beneficent"; 9 October 210–September 180 BC) was the King of Ptolemaic Egypt from July or August 204 BC until his death in 180 BC.
Serapis or Sarapis is a Graeco-Egyptian god. A syncretic deity derived from the worship of the Egyptian Osiris and Apis, [1] Serapis was extensively popularized in the third century BC on the orders of Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, [2] as a means to unify the Greek and Egyptian subjects of the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
The Ptolemy (1934) is a large reed organ built by Harry Partch, the American composer, named in tribute to Claudius Ptolemaeus; Tolomeo is an opera by Handel composed in 1728, a fictionalisation of some events in the life of Ptolemy IX Lathyros, king of Egypt; Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise is a character in The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix ...