ISBN:
9780191630118
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (408 pages)
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DDC:
303.48232037999998
Keywords:
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Abstract:
This volume examines the cultural interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture, which can be traced in different forms over more than a millennium. Focusing in particular on literature and textual culture, chapters from leading experts cover a wide range of topics such as religion, philosophy, historiography, romance, and translation.
Abstract:
Cover -- Greco-Egyptian Interactions: Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BCE-300 CE -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction: Interaction and Translation between Greek Literature and Egypt -- 1. PREFACE -- 2. GREEK AND EGYPTIAN LITERATURE -- 3. TRANSLATION -- 4. ENGAGEMENT WITH EGYPTIAN CULTURE -- 5. THE CHAPTERS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 2: Plato's Egyptian Republic -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 3: Translating Gods, Interpreting Gods: On the Mechanisms behind the Interpretatio Graeca of Egyptian Gods -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4: The Earliest Cross-Cultural Reception of Homer?: The Inaros-Narratives of Greco-Roman Egypt -- 1. THE INAROS-NARRATIVES -- 2. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- 3. THE INAROS-NARRATIVES AND GREEK LITERATURE -- 4. OTHER POSSIBILITIES -- 5. SUMMATION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 5: Literary Interaction between Greece and Egypt: Manetho and Synchronism -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. WHAT IS MEANT BY 'SYNCHRONISM' ? -- 3. GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHIC SYNCHRONISM -- 4. THYORIS = POLYBUS: MANETHO, HOMER, AND HERODOTUS-FILLING IN THE 'HOLES' -- 5. MANETHO AND THE FLOOD? -- 6. MANETHO, IMPLICIT SYNCHRONISM, AND DUAL IDENTIFICATIONS -- 7. WHAT'S THE POINT? -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 6: The Hathoric Model of Queenship in Early Ptolemaic Egypt: The Case of Berenike's Lock -- BERENIKE IN CYRENE -- BERENIKE II, QUEEN OF EGYPT -- BERENIKE II'S ROYAL IMAGE -- HATHOR -- BERENIKE-HATHOR -- HATHOR'S HAIR AND BERENIKE'S LOCK -- THE APPEAL OF HATHOR -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 7: Virtual History Egyptian Style: The Isolationist Concept of the Potter's Oracle and its Alternative -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 8: Different Parallels, Different Interpretations: Reading Parallels between Ancient Egyptian and Greek Works of Literature -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EXAMPLES.
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