Ptolemaic Kingdom
207From Republic to Oligarchy to Empire
7 Oct 2024
23:32¶ 61
“The Pharoah on the throne once again is a very young man and he has a very pretty sister, or at least a very…”
24:19¶ 62
“Pompey tries to hook up with the boy king and apparently he and Cleopatra don’t get along very well. But before anything really can…”
25:02¶ 63
“But her younger brother doesn’t like this and his advisors tell him, “She’s always been against you. Get rid of her,” so he drives…”
206Rome Wants Elbow Room
23 Sep 2024
5:58¶ 16
“Roman expansion ends up placing ships in Cyprus, but still no one’s paying that much attention because the Hellenistic kingdoms are fighting amongst themselves,…”
6:40¶ 17
“At that point Rome was not important to them. India and even Greece, these things were not important. What was important was armies that…”
7:07¶ 18
“We’re told that in the days of Antiochus Epiphanes – and this puts us at about 168 BC, just to give us some kind…”
203How Alex Conquered the World
19 Aug 2024
29:44¶ 92
“In Egypt we get the Ptolemy dynasty from Ptolemy founding that. The other one that we tend to focus on because it’s more to…”
32:33¶ 102
“No, no. What he did have was an ongoing rivalry with the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. The Pharaohs were descendants of Alexander’s generals, so…”
33:01¶ 103
“When the reigning Pharaoh died he left a young son behind, and Antiochus Epiphanes, the Syrian king, who at this point controlled Palestine, said,…”