Ptolomeo I Sóter (367 a.C. – 282 a.C.) was one of the guardaespaldas of Alejandro Magno.
After the death of Alejandro Magno in Babilonia, while was being carried back to Macedonia, Ptolomeo stole its body and brought it to Alejandría (Egypt).
He was named Pharaon and ordered to built the Great Library of Alexandry and started the building of the Alejandría Lighthouse.
To make that the native Egyptians and Greeks co-lived, hired theologists and invented a new God called Serapis, with the appearence of a bearded Green God (such as Zeus) but the mystic functions of Egyptians Gods.
Ptolomeo IV Filopátor (245 B.C – 204 B.C) was the grandson of Ptolomeo
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La Batalla de Rafia (217 a.C.): El choque de los 130 elefantes
Ptolomeo IV tenía delirios de grandeza y ordenó construir el barco de madera más grande del mundo antiguo: un catamarán gigante de 40 bancos de remos. Medía más de 120 metros de largo y necesitaba ¡4.000 remeros y 3.000 soldados! a bordo. Era tan grande que apenas se podía mover y solo servía para impresionar a las visitas en el puerto de Alejandría.
Cleopatra VII Filopátor (69 a.C. – 30 a.C.) was the last governor of the Ptolemaican dynasty.
and stablished an aliancy with the Romans by meeting Julius Cesar, which went to Egypt pursuing Pompeius.
After the Accio Battle against Octavio (Augustus), she chosed suicide by an Egyptian (Naja haje)