Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism write by Ian S. Moyer. This book was released on 2011-07-07. Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 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.
Clio's Other Sons
Clio's Other Sons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clio's Other Sons write by John Dillery. This book was released on 2015-04-29. Clio's Other Sons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A discussion of the first written histories of Babylon and Egypt
Noscendi Nilum Cupido
Noscendi Nilum Cupido - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Noscendi Nilum Cupido write by Eleni Manolaraki. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Noscendi Nilum Cupido available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What significations did Egypt have for the Romans a century after Actium and afterwards? How did Greek imperial authors respond to the Roman fascination with the Nile? This book explores Egypt's aftermath beyond the hostility of Augustan rhetoric, and Greek and Roman topoi of Egyptian "barbarism." Set against history and material culture, Julio-Claudian, Flavian, Antonine, and Severan authors reveal a multivalent Egypt that defines Rome's increasingly diffuse identity while remaining a tertium quid between Roman Selfhood and foreign Otherness. Vespasian's Alexandrian uprising, his recognition of Egypt as his power basis, and his patronage of Isis re-conceptualize Egypt past the ideology of Augustan conquest. The imperialistic exhilaration and moral angst attending Rome's Flavian cosmopolitanism find an expressive means in the geographically and semantically nebulous Nile. The rapprochement with Egypt continues in the second and early third centuries. The "Hellenic" Antonines and the African-Syrian Severans expand perceptions of geography and identity within an increasingly decentralized and diverse empire. In the political and cultural discourses of this period, the capacious symbolics of Egypt validate the empire's religious and ethnic pluralism.
Empires of the Sea
Empires of the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires of the Sea write by . This book was released on 2019-10-07. Empires of the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.
Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece
Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece write by William V. Harris. This book was released on 2021-10-01. Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume approaches the history of the great city of Alexandria from a variety of directions: its demography, the interaction between Greek and Egyptian and between Jews and Greeks, the nature of its civil institutions and social relations, and its religious, and intellectual history.
