The Syrian wars/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden: Boston:
Brill,
2010
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| Series: | Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity,
v 320 |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Syria's importance revealed
- Syria divided
- Cold war
- The new kings, and the first Syrian war
- Competitive developing
- The second Syrian war
- Increasing strains
- The third war, the 'War of Laodike'
- The Seleukid collapse
- The fourth war
- The reversal, the Ptolemaic collapse
- The fifth war, the triumph of Antiochos III
- Changing priorities
- The sixth war, and the 'day of Eleusis'
- Mutual troubles and a new agenda
- The seventh war, the triumph of Ptolemy Philometor
- The legacy of Philometor
- The eighth war, the last chance for union