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18 hours ago · Ptolemy I and other early rulers of the dynasty were not married to their relatives, the childless marriage of siblings Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II being an exception. The first child-producing incestuous marriage in the Ptolemaic dynasty was that of Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe III , who were succeeded as co-pharaohs by their son Ptolemy V , born 210 BC.
- 305 BC
- Ptolemy I Soter
5 days ago · Primary Source. Ptolemy's World Map. Annotation. Claudius Ptolemy lived in the city of Alexandria in Egypt from about 100 to 170 CE. At that time Egypt was a Roman province and Ptolemy may have been a Roman citizen. A geographer and astronomer, Ptomely's book Geographia, influenced mapmakers on questions such as the size of the earth for centuries.
5 days ago · Name. Bowersock_1988_Three_Arabias.pdf . Size. 301.12 KB. Format. Adobe PDF
1 day ago · Ptolemy’s main purpose in creating this guide was to provide a detailed and accurate depiction of the world known to him. He used geometric models to predict the positions of celestial bodies, such as the sun, moon, and planets. By establishing this model, Ptolemy then described the mathematics and calculations necessary to create accurate maps.
3 days ago · The massacres of July 1821 in Cyprus, with casualties ranging from 480 to 2000, were not an inhibiting factor for the Cypriot revolutionaries who became heroes in Tripolitsa, Dervenakia, Livadia, Athens, Thebes, Spetses, Samos and Patras, Argos, Kalamata, Corinth, Corinth, Messolonghi, Faliron, Piraeus, Piraeus, Karystos, Haidari, Nafpaktos, on ...
5 days ago · The Ottoman Empire Around 1680. The Orthodox Church was freed from centuries of control by the Latin hierarchy and its previous tradition of independence reasserted under a revived archbishopric. On the other hand, the Catholic Church of the Crusader and Venetian rulers were expelled.
2 days ago · The Bible is the biggest-selling and most read book in human history; originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the first translation of the Bible into another language, called the Septuagint, was in Greek. The translation of the Old Testament into Koine Greek in the third century BC took place within a historical context that was important for ...