Alexandria, also known as Alexandria, was founded in 332 BC after its founder, Alexander the Great, as the seat of the governor of the Egyptian province of the Macedonian Empire. Alexander www.biquge.info founded the city here with the intention of establishing a Greek-centric city on the side of Naucratis as a link between Greece and the rich Nile Valley. At that time, there was only one place in Egypt that offered the conditions for such a city - Alexandria, located behind the island of Pharaoh, unhindered by the silt of the mouth of the Nile. At that time, there was already a small Egyptian city, which was mainly inhabited by fishermen and pirates. According to historians, there were five scattered hamlets after that. After Alexander's departure, his governor Cleome continued the construction of the city, but today's archaeology seems to prove that the city was largely completed by Ptolemy, and Alexandria gradually replaced Tyre as the center of trade between Europe and Arabia and India. A century later it surpassed Carthage in size, and in the following centuries it was only smaller than Rome. In Roman times, Alexandria was nominally a free Greek city with its own senate, which Augustus abolished but which was later restored by Sheptimius Severus.

After the death of Alexander the Great, the Egyptian governor Ptolemy established the Ptolemaic dynasty here and was crowned Ptolemy I (Savior). Alexandria became the capital of the Kingdom of Egypt and soon became the largest city in ancient Greek culture, second only to Rome in size and wealth.

After Ptolemy entered Egypt, he absorbed the ruling ideas of the Egyptian pharaohs, made maximum use of the old system during the pharaonic period, implemented an absolute monarchy, and appropriately put on the cloak of the Greek city-state system. Autocracy is fundamental, and autonomous democracy is the decoration. Before the arrival of Egypt, the Macedonians had a certain tradition of centralization. The state is headed by the king, who is the master of all the lands, the supreme commander in time of war, and controls the judiciary. However, the king's power was restricted by the council of warriors, which had to be elected and approved by the council of warriors, and cases involving treason were tried by the council of warriors, and the king's binding force on the tribes was relatively loose, and each tribe still had its own royal family. Therefore, although the Macedonian dynasty had the form of absolute monarchy, it could only be regarded as an early stage, and could not be compared with the complete system formed by thousands of years of autocratic rule in Egypt, either in theory or in practice. Therefore, if Ptolemy wanted to drive this huge state apparatus with ease, it was undoubtedly the best solution to use and perfect the autocratic system of Egypt. In fact, the Ptolemaic dynasty in history ruled more autocratically than in the time of the Pharaohs. In order to obtain the legal status of ruling Egypt, the Ptolemaic kings mythologized the kingship, promoted the worship of the king, and the idea of the divine right of kingship has been throughout the Ptolemaic Dynasty, and Pharaoh regarded himself as the "son of the god Amun". This practice began with Alexander, who presented himself as the liberator of Egypt and visited the temple of Amun in the Siwa oasis, where the Egyptian priests declared him "the son of Amun", in an attempt to gain the spiritual approval of the Egyptians in order to legitimize his dominance. After this, the Ptolemaic kings combined economic, administrative, military, and judicial powers, and were supreme and could do whatever they wanted, and there were no more people and institutions that could influence the will of the king. The Greeks gradually abandoned the worship of the Olympian gods in favor of the Egyptian gods. With the hybridization of the Greeks and the Egyptians, there was no complete Greek component, either mentally or physically, and even the language became a mixture of Greeks, and Greek culture was eventually submerged by the ancient Egyptian culture. However, Greek has always been the official language, and as a member of the Ptolemaic royal family, almost no one understands Egyptian, and the famous Queen Cleopatra is the only king who can speak Egyptian.

However, the highly centralized rule did not bring long-term peace and stability to the Ptolemaic Dynasty, the Greeks who immigrated to Egypt after a long period of assimilation have long been less focused on physical exercise than the Greeks, and the long-term comfort has made the kingdom have no sense of crisis, and the weak Egyptian army is fundamentally vulnerable in the face of the powerful Roman army, and the marriage tradition of the Egyptian royal family was inherited by Ptolemy II, which made the kings of the Ptolemaic Dynasty either weak or intellectually lacking, It is simply impossible to effectively manage the country and defend against foreign aggression. In the end, under the deterrence of the Roman army, he obediently surrendered without fighting. …,

After two days and one night of expedited travel, Theophrastus arrived in Alexandria and gave his name. At this time, Ptolemy was in the dark, observing the development of the Second Diadochi War. When the guards reported to him the arrival of Theophrastus, he was intrigued by the unexpected visitor.

Although he was not yet king, Ptolemy's palace was a very luxurious combination of Greek and Egyptian architectural styles. Ptolemy himself may have been more adapted to the Greek style, but in order to cater to the Egyptians, the palace was necessarily built with strong Egyptian characteristics. There were many Greek-style balconies in the palace, and Ptolemy liked to stand on them and look out into the distance, and he enjoyed the feeling of seeing the whole world in the first place. He also used to tell stories to his children here. In addition, he is also writing a memoir, a memoir about Alexander. At this time, he was looking at Theophrastus, who had entered the palace, and he had several guards around him, the first of which was none other than his son, a son who had been away from him for many years, and he was almost forgetting about him. The guards had been unarmed, as was customary at the Egyptian court.

"Teacher (Ptolemy)!" The two hugged each other very friendly.

Then Ptolemy and little Ptolemy looked at each other, both of them were expressionless, the contradiction between the ambitious Ptolemy and the little Ptolemy who admired Alexander since childhood has a long history, and the knot between father and son has existed for many years. Because Ptolemy Jr. disagreed with Ptolemy's behavior, when Antipater arranged a close guard for Alexander Jr., Ptolemy took this opportunity to send Ptolemy Jr. away, which was a wish for both of them. And Ptolemy's other intention to insist on sending his eldest son away was that he had already married Eurydice, the daughter of his third wife, Antipater, and the mother of Ptolemy, the eldest son of Ptolemy, had no prominent family background, and the younger Ptolemy was at best an illegitimate child, an illegitimate child of Ptolemy's youth. And Ptolemy had another wife and mistress before marrying Eurydice, the youngest daughter of Artabazos, Atacama and the famous courtesan of Athens, Tais, and the amorous Ptolemy later even fell in love with Eurydice's maid Belenicius (later Belenicius I, the mother of Ptolemy II). The amorous Ptolemy fell in love with one after another, which disgusted the little Ptolemy, and his father did not favor him, and he could not communicate with them when he was older, and he had many younger brothers and sisters, so in the end the little Ptolemy left his father and gladly accepted to be the close bodyguard of the young Alexander IV.

"I didn't expect you to come here, we haven't seen each other in more than twenty years, right?" Ptolemy's eyes lingered on little Ptolemy's body for a moment, and then he turned to Theophrastus.

"Well, I wasn't as old as you are now. Oh, it should be much smaller. ”

"Hehe, at that time, my friends and I listened to you and Aristotle talk about the Olympian gods and natural science, so that we could understand the world, I sincerely thank you!"

"It's all gone, you're old now, but you can see that your body is still very strong."

"Why aren't you? You know you're more than a decade older than me, hehe! ”

They both laughed, and then fell silent, knowing that the greetings were about to get down to business.