Lawrence University & Buerger Coin Collection Gold Octodrachm of Ptolemy III Euergetes... Gold Octodrachm of Ptolemy III Euergetes, Egypt, 27.81 g. Ptolemy III Euergetes (Benefactor) carried on ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

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.