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Author: Naphtali Lewis
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a reprint of Naphtali Lewis' important book on the uses of papyrus records reconstructing life in ancient Egypt. Published in 1986, the first edition of Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt complemented Life in Egypt under Roman Rule' (reprinted in 1999 as Classics in Papyrology 1') by providing a perspective on the earlier period.
Author: Brian Muhs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-02
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1107113369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.
Author: Chi, Jennifer Y., and Pedro Azara, eds.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-03-22
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 0691166463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatalog of an exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, New York, February 12-June 7, 2015.
Author: Philippa Lang
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-12-03
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9004235515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurrent questions on whether Hellenistic Egypt should be understood in terms of colonialism and imperialism, multicultural separatism, or integration and syncretism have never been closely studied in the context of healing. Yet illness affects and is affected by nutrition, disease and reproduction within larger questions of demography, agriculture and environment. It is crucial to every socio-economic group, all ages, and both sexes; perceptions and responses to illness are ubiquitous in all kinds of evidence, both Greek and Egyptian and from archaeology to literature. Examing all forms of healing within the specific socioeconomic and environmental constraints of the Ptolemies’ Egypt, this book explores how linguistic, cultural and ethnic affiliations and interactions were expressed in the medical domain.
Author: Naphtali Lewis
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 182
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Edmund Stanwick
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-22
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0292787472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs archaeologists recover the lost treasures of Alexandria, the modern world is marveling at the latter-day glory of ancient Egypt and the Greeks who ruled it from the ascension of Ptolemy I in 306 B.C. to the death of Cleopatra the Great in 30 B.C. The abundance and magnificence of royal sculptures from this period testify to the power of the Ptolemaic dynasty and its influence on Egyptian artistic traditions that even then were more than two thousand years old. In this book, Paul Edmund Stanwick undertakes the first complete study of Egyptian-style portraits of the Ptolemies. Examining one hundred and fifty sculptures from the vantage points of literary evidence, archaeology, history, religion, and stylistic development, he fully explores how they meld Egyptian and Greek cultural traditions and evoke surrounding social developments and political events. To do this, he develops a "visual vocabulary" for reading royal portraiture and discusses how the portraits helped legitimate the Ptolemies and advance their ideology. Stanwick also sheds new light on the chronology of the sculptures, giving dates to many previously undated ones and showing that others belong outside the Ptolemaic period.
Author: J. G. Manning
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-10-07
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0691156387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contents of this book cover Egypt in the first millennium BC, the historical understanding of the Ptolemaic state, moving beyond despotism, economic planning and state banditry, shaping a new state, and much more.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9004407677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmpires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.
Author: Mario C. D. Paganini
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0192660756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion, characteristics, administration, and developments of the institution of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic Egypt and its implications for the assertion of Greek identity. He shows how this institution and its people were affected by the local environment and how 'those from the gymnasium', the members of this most distinctively Greek institution, were truly embedded in the social and cultural milieu of the country where they lived: they were the 'Greeks' of Egypt. Thanks to the information originating from Ptolemaic Egypt and its papyrological sources, this work showcases the variety of concomitant features and different traditions that were alive and active in the Hellenistic world, thus contributing to a better understanding of the ancient world in all its complexity and vitality.
Author: William V. Harris
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9047406389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume approaches the history of the great city of Alexandria from a variety of directions: its demography, the interaction between Greek and Egyptian and between Jews and Greeks, the nature of its civil institutions and social relations, and its religious, and intellectual history.
