Seeing double : intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria /

Stephens, Susan A.

Seeing double : intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan A. Stephens. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. - 1 online resource (xvi, 292 p.) - The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature Hellenistic culture and society ; 37 . - The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. Hellenistic culture and society ; 37. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and indexes.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Conceptualizing Egypt -- 2. Callimachean Theogonies -- 3. Theocritean Regencies -- 4. Apollonian Cosmologies -- 5. The Two Lands -- Select Bibliography -- Passages Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens.

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22573/cttt1bjw JSTOR

2021696311


Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C.
Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C.


To 500


Greek poetry, Hellenistic--History and criticism.--Egypt--Alexandria
Egyptian poetry--History and criticism.--Egypt--Alexandria
Comparative literature--Greek and Egyptian.
Comparative literature--Egyptian and Greek.
Language and culture--Egypt--Alexandria.
Poetics--History--To 1500.
Poésie grecque hellénistique--Histoire et critique.--Égypte--Alexandrie
Poésie égyptienne ancienne--Histoire et critique.--Égypte--Alexandrie
Langage et culture--Égypte--Alexandrie.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Ancient & Classical.
Egyptian poetry.
Greek poetry, Hellenistic.
Intellectual life.
Language and culture.
Poetics.
Literatuurtheorie.
Cultuurcontact.
Hellenisme.


Alexandria (Egypt)--Intellectual life.
Egypt--Alexandria.
Alexandrië

Litteratur Klassiske litteraturer.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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