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Author: G. J. F. Kater-Sibbes
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-08-24
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9004295151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreliminary material -- AEGYPTUS-MEMPHIS -- AEGYPTUS -- GENERAL INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS -- PLATES.
Author: Ian S. Moyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-07-07
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1139496557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of studies, Ian Moyer explores the ancient history and modern historiography of relations between Egypt and Greece from the fifth century BCE to the early Roman empire. Beginning with Herodotus, he analyzes key encounters between Greeks and Egyptian priests, the bearers of Egypt's ancient traditions. Four moments unfold as rich micro-histories of cross-cultural interaction: Herodotus' interviews with priests at Thebes; Manetho's composition of an Egyptian history in Greek; the struggles of Egyptian priests on Delos; and a Greek physician's quest for magic in Egypt. In writing these histories, the author moves beyond Orientalizing representations of the Other and colonial metanarratives of the civilizing process to reveal interactions between Greeks and Egyptians as transactional processes in which the traditions, discourses and pragmatic interests of both sides shaped the outcome. The result is a dialogical history of cultural and intellectual exchanges between the great civilizations of Greece and Egypt.
Author: Matthew Loar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1108418422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary exploration of Roman cultural appropriation, offering new insights into the processes through which Rome made and remade itself.
Author: Marjorie Susan Venit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1107048087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the visual narratives of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (c.300 BCE-250 CE). The author contextualizes the tombs within their social, political, and religious context and considers how the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife.
Author: Michael Pfrommer
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 0892366338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough much is left to the imagination, the basic facts do come to light, and the facets and surfaces of the Getty's golden treasure enrich us with new understanding."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Jonathan R. W. Prag
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-24
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1107032423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPathbreaking essays challenging the traditional focus on the eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period and on Rome in the West.
Author: Anne Roullet
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-08-24
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9004294880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreliminary material -- HISTORICAL CONDITIONS -- TYPE AND STYLE OF THE EGYPTIAN AND EGYPTIANIZING MONUMENTS OF IMPERIAL ROME -- THE SETTING OF THE EGYPTIAN AND EGYPTIANIZING MONUMENTS IN IMPERIAL ROME -- CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- APPENDIX III -- APPENDIX IV -- ADDENDA -- CAPTIONS TO THE FIGURES -- INDEX OF PROPER NAMES -- INDEX OF MUSEUMS -- Plates I-CCXXX and Plans.
Author: Christopher P. Dickenson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-01-23
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9004334750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the Agora traces the evolution of the main public square of the Greek polis for the six centuries from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the height of the Roman Empire and the Herulian invasion of Greece in 267 AD. Drawing on literary, epigraphic and, especially, archaeological evidence, the book takes a comparative approach to consider how the layout and function of agoras in cities throughout Greece changed during centuries that witnessed far reaching transformations in culture, society and political life. The book challenges the popular view of the post-Classical agora as characterised by decline, makes important arguments about how we use evidence to understand ancient public spaces and proposes many new interpretations of individual sites.
Author: Sarah Pearce
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9783161492501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the first extended study of the representation of Egypt in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. Philo is a crucial witness, not only to the experiences of the Jews of Alexandria, but to the world of early Roman Egypt in general. As historians of Roman Alexandria and Egypt are well aware, we have access to very few voices from inside the country in this era; Philo is the best we have. As a commentator on Jewish Scripture, Philo is also one of the most valuable sources for the interpretation of Egypt in the Pentateuch. He not only writes very extensively on this subject, but he does so in ways that are remarkable for their originality when compared with the surviving literature of ancient Judaism. In this book, Sarah Pearce tries to understand Philo in relation to the wider context in which he lived and worked. Key areas for investigation include: defining the 'Egyptian' in Philo's world; Philo's treatment of the Egypt of the Pentateuch as a symbol of 'the land of the body'; Philo's emphasis on Egyptian inhospitableness; and his treatment of Egyptian religion, focusing on Nile veneration and animal worship.
Author: Christina Riggs
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-06-21
Total Pages: 816
ISBN-13: 0191626333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today - east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting identities, patterns of language use and religious belief, and the management of agriculture and trade. Roman Egypt was a literal and figurative crossroads shaped by the movement of people, goods, and ideas, and framed by permeable boundaries of self and space. This handbook is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research. Arranged in seven thematic sections, each of which includes essays from a variety of disciplinary vantage points and multiple sources of information, it offers new perspectives from both established and younger scholars, featuring individual essay topics, themes, and intellectual juxtapositions.
