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Author Stephens, Susan A.

Title Seeing double : intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan A. Stephens
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages)
Series The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Hellenistic culture and society ; 37
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Hellenistic culture and society ; 37.
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
Analysis Litteratur Klassiske litteraturer
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and indexes
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Subject Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C.
SUBJECT Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C. fast
Subject Greek poetry, Hellenistic -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History and criticism
Egyptian poetry -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History and criticism
Comparative literature -- Greek and Egyptian
Comparative literature -- Egyptian and Greek
Language and culture -- Egypt -- Alexandria
Poetics -- History -- To 1500
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Egyptian poetry
Greek poetry, Hellenistic
Intellectual life
Language and culture
Poetics
Literatuurtheorie.
Cultuurcontact.
Hellenisme.
SUBJECT Alexandria (Egypt) -- Intellectual life
Subject Egypt -- Alexandria
Alexandrië
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696311
ISBN 9780520927384
0520927389
0585466491
9780585466491
1597348899
9781597348898
9786612356674
6612356677