Architectural styles of ancient Alexandria : elements of architectural decoration from Polish excavations at Kom el-Dikka, 1960-1993 /
: Translation of : Style architektoniczne starożytnej Aleksandrii. : 369 pages, 154, [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plan ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9788392231950
Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt /
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Current 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.
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1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004235519 :
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La vaisselle fine de l'habitat alexandrin : contribution à la connaissance de la mobilité des techniques et des produits céramiques en Méditerranée du IIe siècle av. J.-C. à l'époq...
: xiv, 443 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9782724706192
Hellenistic painted goblets in Alexandria /
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Les gobelets peints ont été durant de longues années considérés comme un groupe de céramique égyptienne unique et difficile à définir. Leur riche iconographie restait incomprise et leur datation placée à l'époque romaine ou romaine tardive. L'examen de la collection de tessons réunie par Lukas Benaki dans les années 1930 dans la nécropole de Hadra à Alexandrie et conservée au British Museum, au Musée gréco-romain d'Alexandrie et au Musée Benaki d'Athènes et de quelques vases complets, ainsi que des fragments mis au jour dans des fouilles récentes bien stratifiées à Alexandrie a permis de conforter la datation à l'époque hellénistique (IIe-Ier siècle av.0J. -C.), proposée par D. Bailey et de fixer leur lieu de production en Maréotide. Il a été possible d'identifier des scènes de procréation, d'accouchement et de banquet, associées à des représentations d'une nature prolifique, qui placent ces vases dans un contexte cultuel de célébration de la vie et de la renaissance. Ce volume a recu le prix "A la Mémoire de Jean Leclant" décerné par la Fondation Michela Schiff Giorgini en 2020.
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325 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index. :
9782490128129 :
1110-6441 ;
Singing Alexandria : music between practice and textual transmission /
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This volume investigates the transmission and ancient reception of ancient Greek texts with musical notation. It provides a reconstruction of the dynamics of reception orienting the re-use and re-shaping of musical and poetic tradition in the entertainment culture of the post-classical Greek world. The study makes full use of literary, papyrological and epigraphic evidence, and in particular includes a detailed philological analysis of surviving musical papyri and of their relationship to the editorial activity of Alexandrian scholarship. The study helps to relocate musical documents in the world of their production and reception.
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Scuola normale superiore, Pisa, 2003. :
1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : facsimiles. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-230) and indexes. :
9789047408970 :
0169-8958 ; :
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The Alexandrian riots of 38 C.E. and the persecution of the Jews : a historical reconstruction /
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Scholars have read the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE according to intertwined dichotomies. The Alexandrian Jews fought to keep their citizenship - or to acquire it; they evaded the payment of the poll-tax - or prevented any attempts to impose it on them; they safeguarded their identity against the Greeks - or against the Egyptians. Avoiding that pattern and building on the historical reconstruction of the experience of the Alexandrian Jewish community under the Ptolemies, this work submits that the riots were the legal and political consequence of an imperial adjudication against the Jews. Most of the Jews lost their residence never to recover it again. The Roman emperor, the Roman prefect of Egypt and the Alexandrian citizenry - all shared responsibilities according to their respective and expected roles.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-314) and indexes. :
9789047441915 :
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Christianity and monasticism in Alexandria and the Egyptian deserts /
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The great city of Alexandria is undoubtedly the cradle of Egyptian Christianity, where the Catechetical School was established in the second century and became a leading center in the study of biblical exegesis and theology. According to tradition, St. Mark the Evangelist brought Christianity to Alexandria in the middle of the first century and was martyred in that city, which was to become the residence of Egypt's Coptic patriarchs for nearly eleven centuries. By the fourth century Egyptian monasticism had began to flourish in the Egyptian deserts and countryside. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine the various aspects of Coptic civilization in Alexandria and its environs, and in the Egyptian deserts, over the past two millennia. The contributions explore Coptic art, archaeology, architecture, language, and literature. The impact of Alexandrian theology and its cultural heritage as well as the archaeology of its 'university' are highlighted. Christian epigraphy in the Kharga Oasis, the art and architecture of the Bagawat cemetery, and the archaeological site of Kellis (Ismant al-Kharab) with its Manichaean texts are also discussed.
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"A Saint Mark Foundatoin book".
Papers presented at the eighth international symposium of the St. Mark Foundation for Coptic History Studies and the St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society, held at the Logos Center in Wadi al-Natrun, February 12-15, 2017.
"[T]his last volume of the series Christianity and Monasticism in Egypt ..." --Foreword. :
xxvi, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-390). :
9774169611
9789774169618
Poetry as window and mirror positioning the poet in Hellenistic poetry /
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Hellenistic Poetry has enjoyed a notable re-appreciation in recent years and received ample scholarly discussion, especially focusing on its reception and innovation of Greek poetic tradition. This book wishes to add to our picture of how Hellenistic poetry works by looking at it from a slightly different angle. Concentrating on the interaction between contemporary poets, it attempts to view the dynamics of imitation and reception in the light of poetical self-positioning. In the courtly Alexandrian surroundings, choosing a poetic model and affiliation determines one's position in the cultural field. This book sets out to chart, not only the well-known complexities of handling the poetic past, but especially their relation to the poetic interaction of the Hellenistic, in particular Alexandrian poets.
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Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Amsterdam, 2009. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-269) and indexes. :
9789004210097 :
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