| The History of Egypt Under the Ptolemies Contributor(s): Sharpe, Samuel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108082971 ISBN-13: 9781108082976 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $34.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Egypt - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 932.02 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (0.84 lbs) 234 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - North Africa - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This 1838 work by Samuel Sharpe (1799-1881) is the second of two volumes on the history of ancient Egypt; the first, dealing with the earlier period, is also reissued in this series. From a banking family, Sharpe was fascinated by Young's and Champollion's work in deciphering the hieroglyphs. He taught himself Coptic, and compiled his own hieroglyphic vocabulary lists. His facility for decipherment was assisted by a natural gift for solving cryptograms, but his inferences sometimes led him into error. This book, in which Sharpe follows his earlier technique of using inscriptions as well as historical works as sources, begins with a survey of the history of Egypt up to the time of Alexander the Great; the interested reader is referred to Sharpe's earlier volume for more details. He then surveys the Ptolemaic era by reigns, ending with the battle of Actium and the conquest of Egypt by Augustus. |
