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Author Paganini, Mario C. D., author.

Title Gymnasia and Greek identity in Ptolemaic Egypt / Mario C.D. Paganini
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Oxford classical monographs
Oxford classical monographs.
Contents 1: Introduction -- 2: The Institution -- 3: The Gymnasium at Alexandria -- 4: Legal Status of Gymnasia -- 5: The Officials -- 6: Gymnasial Status -- 7: Outsiders: Integration and Rejection -- 8: Living the Greek Way -- 9: The Gymnasium and Greek Identity -- APPENDIX 1: Gymnasia and 'Gymnasial Bodies' of Ptolemaic Egypt by Location -- APPENDIX 2: List of Relevant Sources for the Ptolemaic Period -- APPENDIX 3: Prosopography of Gymnasiarchs -- Chronology of Ptolemaic Sovereigns (Simplified) -- Glossary -- References -- Index Locorum -- General Index
Summary "This is the first complete study of all the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest-reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323–30 BC). It analyses the diffusion, characteristics, administration, and developments of the institution of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic Egypt and its implications for the assertion of Greek identity. It shows how this institution and its people were affected by the local environment and how ‘those from the gymnasium’, the members of the most Greek institution ever, were truly embedded in the social and cultural milieu of the country where they lived: they were the ‘Greeks’ of Egypt. Thanks to the information from Ptolemaic Egypt with its papyrological sources, this work showcases the variety of concomitant features and different traditions alive and active in the Hellenistic world, thus contributing to a better understanding of the ancient world in all its complexity and vitality"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 4, 2022)
Subject Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C.
SUBJECT Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C. fast
Subject Gymnasiums -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
Greeks -- Egypt -- History
National characteristics, Greek -- History
National characteristics, Egyptian -- History
Greeks
Gymnasiums
National characteristics, Egyptian
National characteristics, Greek
SUBJECT Egypt -- History -- Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041289
Subject Egypt
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192660756
0192660756
9780191938122
0191938122