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I shift the emphasis away from the perspective of the Greek world by examining the Egyptian core of the empire and the conscious continuation of a pharaonic style of governance. The Ptolemies’ active accommodation to Egyptian kingship and to the legitimizing authority of the priesthoods puts them in sharp contrast to both the Persians who came before and the Romans who came after them. But the nature of royal power must be set into its historical context and measured against real power. 2 On the one hand are the optimists who stress, for example, the output of literature, new temple building, state expansion, and the achievements of Alexandrian scholars.
Dynasty 25, 747–656 BC) kings. These delicate political maneuvers by Psammetichus show the continuing economic and political power of both the temple of Amun and the civil authority, the majordomo Montuemhat. The administration of the south of the country appears, indeed, not to have been much disturbed by Saı¨te recentralization. 7 Between 650 BC and the Hellenistic period there was a significant shift to wetter conditions in the eastern Mediterranean (Issar 2003:24; cf. Hdt. 10). 8 Egyptian Museum, Cairo, JdE 36327.
8 Ancient states, however, were far more complicated, and assessing the constraints that rulers faced are equally as important as assessing the actions they took. In Egypt, the supreme ruler was one actor in a complex world that grew increasingly more complex in the New Kingdom with the rise of powerful temple estates and a standing army that often combined forces to push back against the ruler and his aims. 11 That success requires explanation. I do not see the Ptolemies as “an entirely new departure in Middle Eastern history,” but, rather, as a state built on the strong institutional foundations of Saı¨te and Persian centralized governance.