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Greco-Egyptian Interactions - Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BC-AD 300 (Hardcover)
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Greco-Egyptian Interactions - Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BC-AD 300 (Hardcover)
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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.
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