Succesor states...

[Ludens]

hey one additional thing how you can add the fan signatures anytime you post something, thanks!

By adding them to your signature, which you can do in the user CP (top left corner, just below the thread name). To display a picture, you need the forum code for images, like this:

[*IMG]https://www.europabarbarorum.com/i/sigimages/swe-sig.jpg[*/IMG]

but without the Asterixes:

[SwebozGaztiz]

hello thanks for your responses, i was expecting more thoughts from eb users im always willing to learn new stuff

[paullus]

There's a possibility the Ptolemaioi could have recovered--they temporarily did so a number of times in the second century--but the weakness and introversion introduced by Ptolemaios IV's life of luxury and the simultaneous rise of the first great rebellions and loss of Koile Syria did a number on the Ptolemaic conception of their kingship, such that we see little to no evidence any later Ptolemaic king ever really considered the possibility of becoming hegemon of Anatolia, or Mesopotamia, and even their designs on Koile Syria remained very, very limited. Its possible that could have changed, but not particularly likely; though I do suppose that without a Roman counter to A.S., the Ptolemaioi might have been forced to take on more of their own defense and rely less on diplomacy, which could have constituted a new turning point in their political viability.

There's also the interesting question of whether the Makedonian/Seleukid plot to split Ptolemaic positions between them would have ever been more completely attempted.