‘Although they never managed Roman-style conquest – hemmed in by geography, revolt and circumstance – the Ptolemies and their citizens held on for three centuries. They were the last of the Hellenistic kingdoms to succumb to Rome.’
Robert Cioffi:
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The Ptolemies came too late for many histories of Greece and Egypt and too early for Rome. Alexandria, their capital,...
