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🏆 2024 BIBA® History Winner!
“DAZZLING OF BIRTH ON THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER LIKE HORUS, THE VICTORIOUS BULL, THE SOVEREIGN WHO SHINES… ”
Born to an unknown mistress of one of the last Macedonian kings of Egypt, Ptolemy XII led an unsettled and peripatetic early life in the many royal courts and city-states of the ancient Mediterranean.
Called unexpectedly to the throne of the Nile Valley kingdom by an Alexandrian mob, he struggled for decades to maintain his royal state – and his life – amid growing threats from a new regional superpower, the mighty republic of Rome.
Long maligned, dismissed as feckless, and largely misunderstood, Ptolemy has now been given new consideration in this groundbreaking biographical study, the very first of its kind.
