Description: This book examines how the army developed as an engine of socio-economic and cultural integration in Egypt under Greco-Macedonian rule.
Brief description: Christelle Fischer-Bovet is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California.
Review Quotes: "Fischer-Bovet has written the first full-scale study of the Ptolemaic military in over a century. Few books have the potential to change the direction of scholarship; this is such a book ... This well-written, clearly argued study belongs in all university libraries."
S. M. Burstein, Choice