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Gymnasia and Greek identity in Ptolemaic Egypt

Title
Gymnasia and Greek identity in Ptolemaic Egypt / Mario C. D. Paganini.
Author
Paganini, Mario C. D.
Publication
  • Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Description
xiv, 315 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book provides the first complete study of 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). 0Paganini 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. He shows how this institution and its people were affected by the local environment and how 'those from the gymnasium', the members of this most distinctively Greek institution, were truly embedded in the social and cultural milieu of the country where they lived: they were the 'Greeks' of Egypt. 0Thanks to the information originating from Ptolemaic Egypt and its papyrological sources, this work showcases the variety of concomitant features and different traditions that were alive and active in the Hellenistic world, thus contributing to a better understanding of the ancient world in all its complexity and vitality"--Back cover.
Series Statement
Oxford classical monographs
Uniform Title
Oxford classical monographs.
Subject
  • Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C
  • 332 B.C.-640 A.D
  • Gymnasiums > Egypt > History
  • Greeks > Egypt > History
  • National characteristics, Greek > History
  • National characteristics, Egyptian > History
  • Greeks
  • Gymnasiums
  • National characteristics, Egyptian
  • National characteristics, Greek
  • Egypt > History > Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D
  • Egypt
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Call Number
JFE 22-1863
ISBN
  • 0192845802
  • 9780192845801
OCLC
1261362428
Author
Paganini, Mario C. D., author.
Title
Gymnasia and Greek identity in Ptolemaic Egypt / Mario C. D. Paganini.
Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Oxford classical monographs
Oxford classical monographs.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Chronological Term
332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Research Call Number
JFE 22-1863
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