PC/WI: Ptolemaic Carthage?

No frills with this one.
What if, by conquest or marriage, the Egyptian Ptolemaic Dynasty was able to secure the Carthaginian throne prior to the first Punic War?
Could such a united kingdom dominate the Mediterranean over an upsurgent Roman Republic or would it be doomed (or not plausible) from the start?
 
No frills with this one.
What if, by conquest or marriage, the Egyptian Ptolemaic Dynasty was able to secure the Carthaginian throne prior to the first Punic War?
Could such a united kingdom dominate the Mediterranean over an upsurgent Roman Republic or would it be doomed (or not plausible) from the start?

There's a pretty big problem with your scenario. By the time the Ptolemaic Kingdom was established, Carthage had been a republic for almost 200 years. The Carthaginian "throne" didn't exist anymore.
 
There's a pretty big problem with your scenario. By the time the Ptolemaic Kingdom was established, Carthage had been a republic for almost 200 years. The Carthaginian "throne" didn't exist anymore.

Right and true. Then by conquest exclusively, what say you of the scenario?
Though with plausibly in mind, I personally think the Ptolemys might struggle to project power that far.
 
Maybe a Ptolemaic Sicily (maybe Pyrrhus conquers Sicily and when he dies the Ptolemies get it) could be used as a springboard and provide sufficient motivation for an invasion of Carthage further down the line.
 
That seems more doable
Maybe a Ptolemaic Sicily (maybe Pyrrhus conquers Sicily and when he dies the Ptolemies get it) could be used as a springboard and provide sufficient motivation for an invasion of Carthage further down the line.

How was the Egyptian Navy at this point? Was there the capacity to not only seize Sicily but hold it?
 
I've toyed with this idea in my abandoned Alexander timeline. The way I did it was having Alexander conquer Carthage and die immediately, Ptolemy gets Carthage. The rest unfolds from there.
 
That seems more doable


How was the Egyptian Navy at this point? Was there the capacity to not only seize Sicily but hold it?

The Ptolemaic navy during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus (overlapping with Pyrrhus' reign in Epirus and Magna Graecia) had around 112 ships, and was the most powerful navy in the Eastern Mediterranean.
 
I've toyed with this idea in my abandoned Alexander timeline. The way I did it was having Alexander conquer Carthage and die immediately, Ptolemy gets Carthage. The rest unfolds from there.

How I long for Blood and Gold to be finished. I badly want a timeline with a Greco-Romano-Egypto-Cathago-Persian synthesis.
 
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