ABSTRACT
WITHIN a short time of each other the three great Macedonian kingdoms came all into the hands of young men. Antiochus III. succeeded to the Seleucid realm in 223, aged eighteen; Ptolemy IV. succeeded to the Egyptian throne in 221, aged
FIG. 36.-Coin of Ptolemy IV. (gold)
about twenty-three; 1 Philip V. succeeded to the kingdom of Macedonia in 220, aged seventeen. From the various characters and ambitions of these three young men, a new distribution of power in the Mediterranean world could not fail to result. Their reigns mark an epoch in another way.
