CONFLICT, COMMUNICATION AND CO-EXISTENCE:RELATIONS BETWEEN PTOLEMAIC EGYPT AND SELEUCIDS

• 来源期刊: 世界古典文明杂志（英文版）
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• 年，卷（期）: 2012,（1）
• 页码范围: 38-60
• 页数: 23页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

In general,the earliest states and civilizations of Western Asia and North Africa respectively first came into existence at the end of the fourth millennium B.C.1 Despite the fact that these two areas developed in different directions during a period of about 3000 years,there was then some type of contact between Ancient Western Asia and North Africa according to our extant sources.2 However,it was during the Hellenistic Period (323 B.C.-30 B.C.) when the history of these two regions became inextricably linked to that each other.After the death of Alexander the Great in Babylon on June 10,323 B.C.,3 his large empire collapsed but two great kingdoms emerged as the most successful during the Hellenistic Period,namely the Ptolemaic (323 B.C.-30 B.C.)4 and the Seleucid kingdom (311 B.C.-64 B.C.).5 These two kingdoms both ruled over areas in North Africa and Western Asia respectively,which were part of the huge empire that Alexander built up after running over the Achaemenid Empire.