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History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria (v. 10)
History of Egypt Chaldea Syria Babylonia and Assyria - v. 10 Author:Gaston Maspero Volume: v. 10 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Original Publisher: The Grolier Society Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Egypt History / Middle East / Egypt History / Middle East / General History / Reference Social Science / Archaeology ... more »Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PTObEMY 8OTER (LAGDS). CHAPTER H EGYPT UNDER PTOLEMY SOTER Ptolemy governs Egypt, overcomes Perdiccas, and founds a dynasty. BTOLEMY Lagus was one of those who, at the death of Alexander, had raised their voices against giving the whole of the conquered countries to one king; he wished that they should have been shared equally among the generals as independent kingdoms. In this he was overruled, and he accepted his government as the lieutenant of the youthful Philip Arridaeus, though no doubt with the fixed purpose of making Egypt an independent kingdom. On reaching Memphis, the seat of his government, his whole thoughts were turned towards strengthening himself against Perdiccas, who hoped to be obeyed, in the name of his young and weak-minded king, by all his fellow generals. The Greek and foreign mercenaries of which the army of Alexander was made up, and who were faithful to his memory and to his family, had little to guide them in the choice of which leader they should follow to his distant province, beside the thought of where they should be best treated; and Ptolemy's high character for wisdom, generosity, and warlike skill had gained many friends for him among the officers; they saw that the wealth of Egypt would put it in his power to reward those whose services were valuable to him; and hence crowds flocked to his standard. On rea...« less