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Recensione a: Memphis under the Ptolemies, di Dorothy J. Thompson, Princeton 1988
Author: Review of Thompson, D.J. Memphis Under the Ptolemies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988
Author: J.G. ManningMemphis Under the Ptolemies
Author: Dorothy J. ThompsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400843057
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.
Review of Thompson, D.J. Memphis under the Ptolemies. Princeton: Princeton University, 1988
Author: Françoise DunandDorothy J. Thompson, Memphis Under the Ptolemies
Author: Dietrich WillersMemphis Under the Ptolemies
Author: Dorothy J. ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780691035932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The city of Memphis on the Nile, which had often served as capital in the long period preceding Egypt's conquest by Alexander the Great, became the country's "second city" following the founding of Alexandria. Drawing on archaeological findings and on an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the city's economic life and the character of its multi-racial society in the era from Alexander to Augustus. Memphis under the Ptolemies will interest students of intercultural relations and will be essential reading for Egyptologists, papyrologists, and historians of the Hellenistic world, including those concerned with religion. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.
Studies on Ptolemaic Memphis
Author: Dorothy J. CrawfordPublisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers
ISBN: 9789042927636
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Portraits of the Ptolemies
Author: Paul Edmund StanwickPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292777729
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
As archaeologists recover the lost treasures of Alexandria, the modern world is marveling at the latter-day glory of ancient Egypt and the Greeks who ruled it from the ascension of Ptolemy I in 306 B.C. to the death of Cleopatra the Great in 30 B.C. The abundance and magnificence of royal sculptures from this period testify to the power of the Ptolemaic dynasty and its influence on Egyptian artistic traditions that even then were more than two thousand years old. In this book, Paul Edmund Stanwick undertakes the first complete study of Egyptian-style portraits of the Ptolemies. Examining one hundred and fifty sculptures from the vantage points of literary evidence, archaeology, history, religion, and stylistic development, he fully explores how they meld Egyptian and Greek cultural traditions and evoke surrounding social developments and political events. To do this, he develops a "visual vocabulary" for reading royal portraiture and discusses how the portraits helped legitimate the Ptolemies and advance their ideology. Stanwick also sheds new light on the chronology of the sculptures, giving dates to many previously undated ones and showing that others belong outside the Ptolemaic period.
Augusto Augurio
Author: Christoph F. KonradPublisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN: 9783515085786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Studies in Roman Law and Religion offered to Jerzy Linderski on his seventieth birthday. Contents Praefatio Introduction: Doctus vir et perfectus magister; Dissertationes inaugurales et theses magistrales auspiciis Jerzy Linderski confectae; A bibliothecis; Jerzy Linderski: Bibliographia generalis Frances Hickson-Hahn: The Politics of Thanksgiving Timothy J. Moore: Confusing the Gods: Plautus, Cistellaria 512-527 Christopher Michael McDonough: The Pricing of Sacrificial Meat: Eidolothuton, the Ara Maxima, and Useful Misinformation from Servius Hans-Friedrich Mueller: Nocturni coetus in 494 BC M. Panciera: Livy, conubium, and Plebeians' Access to the Consulship Michael Johnson: A Witticism of Antoninus Caracalla? Jonathan S. Perry: In honorem Theodori Mommseni: G. B. de Rossi and the collegia funeraticia Daniel J. Gargola: The Ritual of Centuriation Tadeusz Mazurek: The decemviri sacris faciundis: Supplication and Prediction C. F. Konrad: Vellere signa.
Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt: Volume 1, Population Registers (P. Count)
Author: Willy ClaryssePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521838382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Important study of the economic and social history of Ptolemaic Egypt, based on the salt-tax registers of P. Count.