How did the Ptolemies secure their rule when internal and external crises threatened their kingdom from the end of the third century BC onwards? To find out, Patrick Sänger examines the strategies of the politeuma - a type of association as yet only identified as having existed on Ptolemaic territory which is linked to Jewish and other communities bearing foreign ethnic designations.

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Geboren 1979; 1997-2004 Studium der Alten Geschichte und Altertumskunde; 2009 Promotion; 2017 Habilitation; seit 2018 Professor für Alte Geschichte (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Hilfswissenschaften) an der Universität Münster.