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Hellenistic Egypt : monarchy, society, economy, culture

Title: Hellenistic Egypt : monarchy, society, economy, culture / Jean Bingen ; edited with an introduction by Roger S. Bagnall.
Author: Bingen, Jean.
Publication: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Bagnall, Roger S.

Description

xx, 302 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, 1 portrait; 24 cm

Summary

Hellenistic Egypt was a society created by Macedonian rule of the ancient civilisation of Egypt. It is framed by Alexander the Great at one end and Cleopatra VII at the other. This book sums up a lifetime of Jean Bingen's work on understanding how this state and its monarchy were created and sustained, how Greeks and Egyptians formed separate and yet connected parts of the society, and how the peculiar circumstances of the Ptolemaic kingdom created both opportunities and insoluble tensions. Like all of Bingen's work, it is marked by the influence of cultural sociology but is rooted in a deep knowledge of the Greek world. -- Publisher description.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction ---- Part I. The Monarchy. 1. Ptolemy I and the quest for legitimacy --- 2. Ptolemy III and Philae: snapshot of a reign, a temple, and a cult --- 3. The dynastic politics of Cleopatra VII --- 4. Cleopatra VII Philopatris --- 5. Cleopatra, the diadem and the image ---- Part II. The Greeks. 6. The Thracians in Ptolemaic Egypt --- 7. The Ptolemaic papyri and the Achaean diaspora --- 8. The Greek presence and the Ptolemaic rural setting --- 9. The urban milieu in the Egyptian countryside during the Ptolemaic period --- 10. Kerkeosiris and its Greeks in the second century --- 11. The cavalry settlers of the Herakleopolite in the first century --- 12. Two royal ordinances of the first century and the Alexandrians ---- Part III. The Royal Economy. 13. The Revenue Laws Papyrus: Greek tradition and Hellenistic adaptation --- 14. The structural tensions of Ptolemaic society --- 15. The third-century land leases from Tholthis ---- Part IV. Greeks and Egyptians. 16. Greek economy and Egyptian society in the third century --- 17. Greeks and Egyptians in PSI V 502 --- 18. Graeco-Roman Egypt and the question of cultural interaction --- 19. Normality and distinctiveness in the epigraphy of Greek and Roman Egypt ---- Conclusion.

Call Number

*OBYE 07-6983

ISBN

9780748615780
0748615784
9780748615797
0748615792

OCLC

72152102

Author

Bingen, Jean.

Title

Hellenistic Egypt : monarchy, society, economy, culture / Jean Bingen ; edited with an introduction by Roger S. Bagnall.

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chronological Term

332 B.C.-640 A.D

Added Author

Bagnall, Roger S.

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*OBYE 07-6983

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