The first Cleopatra, Syra (“the Syrian”), was the daughter of the Seleucid king Antiochus III; her marriage to Ptolemy V in 193 B.C. was orchestrated to promote harmony among the rival kingdoms.

We're in Egypt, with Ptolemy V, a Greek boy-king who came to the throne as an orphan in 205 BC, at the age of six. Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander ...

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very ...