GOVERNANCE IN PTOLEMAIC EGYPT: FROM RAPHIA TO CLEOPATRA VII (217 - 31 B.C.), CLASS-BASED ‘COLONIALISM’?
During the first hundred years of its existence, Ptolemaic Egypt was ruled by means of a system based on race under which the Greco-Macedonian minority oppressed and exploited the indigenous Egyptian majority. As an imperialist state, established after the subjection of Persian-ruled Egypt by Alexan...
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Stellenbsoch University, Department of Ancient Studies
2005-12-01
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| Series: | Akroterion |
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| Online Access: | http://akroterion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/74 |