The gift of the Nile : hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander /

The gift of the Nile : hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander /

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Main Author: Vasunia, Phiroze, 1966- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Series: Classics and contemporary thought ; 8.
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.

Subjects:

Greek literature > History and criticism.
Historiography > Greece.
Egypt > Civilization > To 332 B.C.
Egypt > In literature.
Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C.

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Call Number: DT61 .V36 2001

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The
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  • 6.
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  • The
  • tragic Egyptian
  • Splitting the Danaids
  • Egypt as locus for male fertility
  • Blackness and death
  • Marrying the Egyptians
  • Doubles in Helen
  • To die for
  • Space and otherness
  • Pharaoh's space
  • Mapping Egypt
  • Symmetry and inversion
  • traveler's eye
  • Egyptian space
  • In an antique land
  • Absolute history
  • legacies of the past
  • Egypt and the Trojan War
  • Egyptian time
  • In an antique land
  • Writing Egyptian writing
  • Graphomania
  • tyrant's writ
  • Gods of writing
  • Plato's grammatology
  • Egyptian writing
  • Writing and control
  • Reading Isocrates' Busiris
  • Busiris the Egyptian
  • Reading Isocrates' speech
  • paradox of parody
  • Isocrates, Plato, Athens
  • Plato's Egyptian story
  • graphic history
  • From Isocrates to Crantor
  • Athens and Atlantis
  • Alexander's conquest and the force of tradition
  • Greeks and Macedonians
  • Homer and Alexander
  • Herodotus and Alexander
  • Aristotle and Alexander
  • conquest of Egypt
  • Epilogue.