PREFACE
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
EGYPT UNDER THE PTOLEMIES
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
CHAPTER I—EGYPT CONQUERED BY THE GREEKS
CHAPTER II—EGYPT UNDER PTOLEMY SOTER
CHAPTER III.—PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS. B.C. 284-246
CHAPTER IV—PTOLEMY EUERGETES, PTOLEMY PHILOPATOR, AND PTOLEMY
CHAPTER V—PTOLEMY PHILOMETOR AND PTOLEMY EUERGETES II.
CHAPTER VI—THE GROWTH OF ROMAN INFLUENCE IN EGYPT
CHAPTER VII—CLEOPATRA AND HER BROTHERS
Page Image—Alexandria
A Theban Belle
Prayer to Isis
Manuscript on Papyrus; Hieroglyphics, Thebes
A Typical Nile Pilot
An Abyssinian Slave
Signs, Arms and Instruments from the Fifth Tomb
The Rosetta Stone (british Museum)
Temple of Apollonopolis
Color plate
Suk El Saleh, Cairo
Horus on the Crocodiles. Bulak Museum.
Bearers of Evil Tidings
Cleopatra's Needle.