lOO                     The Ptolemies

Dr Hultzsch speaks of finding a solitary silver
coin of the days of Ptolemy Soter in the Bangalore
bazaar 1. The love-story, the progenitor of the
modern novel, introduced to the West by Chares
of Mitylene, may be perhaps considered an indirect
product of Alexandrian influence, as it appears
first in Alexandrian literature.

APPENDIX

THE   PTOLEMIES

Ptolemy Soter I     ........     321 B.C.

Philadelphus   ____     285   ,,

Euergetes I   .....     246   ,,

Philopator   ......     221   „

Epiphanes.......     204   „

Philometor  ......     181   „

Euergetes II   ....    146   ,,

Soter II   ........     117   ,,

Auletes   .........       80   ,,

Cleopatra    ...............       51-30 B.C.

THE  SELEUCIDS

Seleukus I   ..............     312  B.c,

Antiochus I {Soter)  .......     281   „

Antiochus II {Theos)   .....     260   „

Seleukus II {Kallinikus)   ..     246   ,,

Seleukus III {Soter)   ......     227   ,,

Antiochus III {Megas)    ...     222   „

Seleukus IV {Philopator)  ..     187   ,,

Antiochus IV {Epiphanes) .     175   ,,

Antiochus V {Eupator) ....     165   ,,

Demetrius {Soter)   ........     163-150 B.C.

1 J.R.A.S. 1904, p. 403.