Hellenistic Egypt
Title | Hellenistic Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Bingen |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780520251410 |
"The most comprehensive account of the economy, society, and culture of Hellenistic Egypt available in English."--J.G. Manning, author of Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Structure of Land Tenure
Women in Hellenistic Egypt
Title | Women in Hellenistic Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah B. Pomeroy |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780814322307 |
Using evidence from a wide array of sources, Sarah Pomeroy discusses women ranging from queens such as Arsinoë II and Cleopatra VII to Jewish slaves working on a Greek estate.
Greek Gold from Hellenistic Egypt
Title | Greek Gold from Hellenistic Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Pfrommer |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892366338 |
Although much is left to the imagination, the basic facts do come to light, and the facets and surfaces of the Getty's golden treasure enrich us with new understanding."--BOOK JACKET.
The Ancient Egyptian Economy
Title | The Ancient Egyptian Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Muhs |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2016-08-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107113369 |
The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.
Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism
Title | Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism PDF eBook |
Author | Ian S. Moyer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2011-07-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1139496557 |
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.
Gymnastics of the Mind
Title | Gymnastics of the Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Raffaella Cribiore |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2005-02-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691122520 |
This book is at once a thorough study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. It describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what the curriculum comprised. Raffaella Cribiore draws on over 400 papyri, ostraca (sherds of pottery or slices of limestone), and tablets that feature everything from exercises involving letters of the alphabet through rhetorical compositions that represented the work of advanced students. The exceptional wealth of surviving source material renders Egypt an ideal space of reference. The book makes excursions beyond Egypt as well, particularly in the Greek East, by examining the letters of the Antiochene Libanius that are concerned with education. The first part explores the conditions for teaching and learning, and the roles of teachers, parents, and students in education; the second vividly describes the progression from elementary to advanced education. Cribiore examines not only school exercises but also books and commentaries employed in education--an uncharted area of research. This allows the most comprehensive evaluation thus far of the three main stages of a liberal education, from the elementary teacher to the grammarian to the rhetorician. Also addressed, in unprecedented detail, are female education and the role of families in education. Gymnastics of the Mind will be an indispensable resource to students and scholars of the ancient world and of the history of education.
The Last Pharaohs
Title | The Last Pharaohs PDF eBook |
Author | J. G. Manning |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2012-10-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691156387 |
Presents a history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, covering such topics as economic conditions, order and law, and politics.