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\ud83c\udfc6 2024 BIBA\u00ae History Winner!<\/p>\n

“DAZZLING OF BIRTH ON THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER LIKE HORUS, THE VICTORIOUS BULL, THE SOVEREIGN WHO SHINES… ”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Stewart Addington Saint-David<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Full Bio:<\/strong> https:\/\/en.everybodywiki.com\/Stewart_Addington_Saint-David_(university_professor_%26_author)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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