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Seeing double : intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan A. Stephens.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature | Hellenistic culture and society ; 37.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 292 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520927384
  • 0520927389
  • 0585466491
  • 9780585466491
  • 1597348899
  • 9781597348898
  • 9786612356674
  • 6612356677
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Seeing doubleDDC classification:
  • 881/.09932 21
LOC classification:
  • PA3081
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and indexes.

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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.

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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