Greco-Egyptian interactions : literature, translation, and culture, 500 BCE-300 CE /
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Contact and interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture can be traced in different forms over more than a millennium: from the sixth century BC, when Greeks visited Egypt for the sake of tourism or trade, through to the Hellenistic period, when Egypt was ruled by the Macedonian-Greek Ptolemaic dynasty who encouraged a mixed Greek and Egyptian culture, and even more intensely in the Roman Empire, when Egypt came to be increasingly seen as a place of wonder and a source of magic and mystery. This volume addresses the historical interaction between the ancient Greek and Egyptian civilizations in these periods, focusing in particular on literature and textual culture. Comprising fourteen chapters written by experts in the field, each contribution examines such cultural interaction in some form, whether influence between the two cultures, or the emergence of bicultural and mixed phenomena within Egypt. A number of the chapters draw on newly discovered Egyptian texts, such as the Book of Thoth and the Book of the Temple, and among the wide range of topics covered are religion (such as prophecy, hymns, and magic), philosophy, historiography, romance, and translation - Publisher.
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"Many of the papers in this volume had their origin in a conference at the University of Reading, Graeco-Aegypto / Aegypto-Graeca: Interactions between Greece and Egypt 700 BCE-300 CE"-Acknowledgements. :
xiii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
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Griechenland und Ägypten im Kontext der vorderorientalischen Grossmächte : die Kontakte zwischen dem Pharaonenreich und der Ägäis vom 7. bis zum 4. Jahrhundert vor Christus /
: Master's, Universität Würzburg, 2001. : 438 pages : maps ; 22 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9783899757446
Moving across borders : foreign relations, religion, and cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean /
: Based on the International Conference "Foreign Relations and Diplomacy in the Ancient World : Egypt, Greece, Near East", organized by the University of the Aegean, Dept. of Mediterranean Studies, Dec. 3-5, 2004, Rhodes, Greece. : xxii, 369 pages : Illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789042918719 : Nabil