Ptolemaic Armies 305-30 BC

This insightful study describes and illustrates the troops fielded by the Ptolemaic regime in North Africa throughout its turbulent 275-year existence.

Founded by Ptolemy I Soter, a close companion of Alexander the Great, the Ptolemaic Empire encompassed Egypt, northern Libya and parts of the Levant for nearly three centuries. Initially, its armies fought in the Wars of the Diadochi, as Alexander's successors disputed his conquests. Intermittent conflicts with the empire's neighbours, notab...