HISTORY OF EGYPT

From 330 B.C. to the Present Time

By S. RAPPOPORT, Doctor of Philosophy, Basel

Member of the Ecole Langues Orientales, Paris; Russian, German,
French Orientalist and Philologist

VOL. X.

Containing over Twelve Hundred Colored Plates and Illustrations

THE GROLIER SOCIETY
PUBLISHERS, LONDON

CONTENTS

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

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List of Illustrations

Spines

Cover

Frontispiece

Titlepage

001.jpg Page Image

002.jpg Page Image

015.jpg Page Image—alexandria

019.jpg Transporting Grain on the Nile

021.jpg Phtah the God of Memphis

027.jpg Lighthouse at Alexandria

031.jpg Page Image

036.jpg the DÔm Palm.

040.jpg a Silhouette on the Nile

044.jpg Crocodiles Basking in the Sun

049.jpg a Theban Belle

049b.jpg Prayer to Isis

052.jpg Tombs of the Sacred Bulls

055.jpg the God Serapis

056.jpb Manuscript on Papyrus; Hieroglyphics, Thebes

057.jpg Alexander Adoring Horus

062.jpg on the Coast of The Red Sea

081.jpg Alexandrian Lady, Attired in Bombyx Silk

082.jpg Egyptian Coinage

083.jpg Coin of Soter, With Jupiter

092.jpg the Chariot of Antiphilus