095: Ptolemaic Egypt - The Two Lands Restored

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🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Twenty years of chaos in the Ptolemaic kingdom come to an end during the reign of Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204-180). His marriage to the Seleucid princess Cleopatra I Syra confirmed the loss of Coele Syria to Antiochus III, yet she proved to be a good match and helped secure the future of the dynasty. Haronnophoris and the Great Revolt are finally put down in 186, but the Alexandrian government is forced to give concessions to the Egyptians, as the Ptolemies must now come to terms with their new status as a second-class power in the Mediterranean. We also delve into the history of the Rosetta Stone, the Hellenistic period's most famous document, and its role in the decipherment of Ancient Egyptian. Episode Notes: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/2024/03/10/095-ptolemaic-egypt-the-two-lands-restored/) Episode Transcript: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/095-ptolemaic-egypt-the-two-lands-restored-transcript.pdf) Ptolemy V Family Tree: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/reign-of-ptolemy-v.pdf) Autocrat Podcast: Website (http://www.autocratpodcast.wordpress.com/) Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/30Muilr1O66yA4UDcj76SW?si=c6648d9db9b3446c) Social Media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/HellenisticPod) Facebook (www.facebook.com/hellenisticagepodcast/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/hellenistic_age_podcast/) Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/hellenisticagepodcast) Show Merchandise: Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/HellenisticAgePod) Redbubble (https://www.redbubble.com/people/HellenisticPod/shop?asc=u) Donations: Patreon (https://patreon.com/TheHellenisticAgePodcast) Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/hellenisticagepodcast) Amazon Book Wish List (https://tinyurl.com/vfw6ask)

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0:00.0	Hi there, you're listening to the Hellenistic Age podcast.
0:12.5	Episode 95, Ptolemaic Egypt, the two lands restored.
0:31.6	Throughout the history of the Ptolemaic kingdom, one is hard-pressed to find a ruler who inherited such a dire set of circumstances upon taking the throne as Ptolemy the 5th.
0:36.8	With his father's premature death in 204 and the
0:39.6	murder of his mother shortly afterwards, the six-year-old boy was orphaned and left to the mercy
0:44.7	of an ambitious court officials looking to use him as a puppet for their own whims. Though the
0:50.3	Alexandrian mob violently intervened to secure his survival, his approved representatives
0:55.5	faced quite the odds.
0:57.3	A violent rebellion led by the native pharaoh named Harenophorus, seized much of Upper
1:02.5	Egypt since 206, with attacks reaching ever further north with each passing year.
1:08.1	Meanwhile, two of the fiercest warrior kings of the era, Philip the 5th of Macedon and Antiochus
1:13.6	the 3rd of the Seleucid Empire, agreed to carve apart Ptolemy's inheritance.
1:18.6	The situation was indeed dire, yet the dynasty would survive and continued to rule for another 150 years,
1:25.6	though at a fraction of their former power. Let us look to see how the
1:29.8	Ptolemaic kingdom was able to recover from two decades of turmoil and see how they adapted
1:35.0	from this time of crisis. As we can recall, the fifth Syrian war formally began following
1:41.4	the invasion of Kholy Syria by Antiochus III in mid-202,
1:46.0	though he had been attacking Ptolemaic territories in Asia Minor in years prior.
1:50.6	The Alexandrian government mobilized its strange resources to combat the incoming Salucan king
1:55.7	and handed responsibility over to the mercenary general Scopus of Atolia,
2:00.7	who was able to recapture
2:01.8	a fair amount of land, including Jerusalem.
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