Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism

Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism

Moyer, Ian S. (Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Cambridge University Press

07/2015

358

Mole

Inglês

9781107542891

15 a 20 dias

Series of studies on the ancient history and modern historiography of relations between Egypt and Greece in antiquity, focusing on four key encounters between Greeks and Egyptian priests, the bearers of Egypt's ancient traditions. Informed by approaches to cross-cultural interaction and representation current in anthropology and postcolonial studies.
Introduction: the absence of Egypt; 1. Herodotus and an Egyptian mirage; 2. Luculentissima fragmenta: Manetho's Aegyptiaca and the limits of Hellenism; 3. The Delian Sarapis aretalogy and the politics of syncretism; 4. Thessalos and the magic of empire; Epilogue.
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