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Ptolemy (second century) was the first and boldest in a long succession of spin doctors for the primacy of human beings.
The Persians were followed by Alexander the Great, after whom came two Greek generals Seleucus and Ptolemy, who brought Hellenistic control to the Eastern Mediterranean for some two centuries.
That brings us to the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament “said to have been made by 72 Palestinian Jews during the third century B.C. at the command of Ptolemy Philadelphus.
Then, after Alexander’s death in 323 b.c. , Cleomenes took control of the country under the name Ptolemy I. The new city of Alexandria, located on the Mediterranean coast, became the base for the Ptolemaic control of Egypt and the cultural capital of Europe, and Thebes finally lost its influence.
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