Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by M. Weiskopf)
[Authors and titles are listed at the end of the review.]
- Book Review: The Multilingual Experience In Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Katherine McDonald) Arietta Papaconstantinou (ed.), The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. Farnham/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. x, 240. ISBN 9780754665366. Preview The...
- Book Review: The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under The Ptolemies, 305-30 Bc
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Timothy Howe) J. G. Manning, The Last Pharaohs: Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. In The last pharaohs, J. G. Manning attempts to bring Ptolemaic Egypt,...
- Book Review: Traversing Eternity
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by T. G. Wilfong) Mark Smith, Traversing Eternity: Texts for the Afterlife from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Egyptian funerary texts of the Graeco-Roman period are less...
- Book Review: Prinzeps Und Pharao
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Jan Moje) Friederike Herklotz, Prinzeps und Pharao. Der Kult des Augustus in Aegypten. Oikumene. Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, 4. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2007. Die Einnahme Alexandrias durch den...
- Giza And The New 7 Wonders
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=298542007A summary of the row that has grown up between Egypt and the organizer of the New Seven Wonders: "Egyptian officials refused to meet Weber on his visit to Egypt last month. When he tried...
Egypt
Book Review: Alexandreia und das ptolemäische Ägypten
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by M. Weiskopf)
Gregor Weber (ed.), Alexandreia und das ptolemäische Ägypten: Kulturbegegnungen in hellenistischer Zeit. Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2010.
[Authors and titles are listed at the end of the review.]
Weber has edited an excellent, well-written collection of essays investigating the Ptolemaic era, a collection (whose origins lie in 2007/2008) indicative of the advances made in the field since the 1980s when the imprecise term "multicultural" was first used to placate the “politically correct.” Weber’s introduction (pp. 9-29) makes clear that one is investigating cultural interactions, Kulturbegegnungen: a plural. The cultures and interactions are never static, nor is there a single Leitkultur. Weber proposes the investigation of five Problembereiche that cut across disciplines: a. the concept of monarchy, in which the desire for dynastic unity led to the adaptation of the Egyptian concept of sibling marriage; b. the elite of the land, Egyptian and Greco-Macedonian maintaining their respective positions, but prosopographical details preclude assigning ethnics based on one’s name; c. religion, in which the Ptolemies were active patrons, but a clear division between divine worlds seems to have persisted; d. the situation in the chora, illuminated for the most part by papyrus-preserved “personal” histories; e. dislike of the Ptolemaic rule: the priesthood saw the Ptolemies as the bulwark against a Sintflut of chaos and anarchy; it remains difficult to assign specific reasons for others’ dissatisfaction. Weber ends with advice (p. 24): “Generalisierende Aussage in grosser Stil ueber die griechische Elite oder die Aegypter verbieten sich daher.”
- Book Review: The Multilingual Experience In Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Katherine McDonald) Arietta Papaconstantinou (ed.), The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. Farnham/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. x, 240. ISBN 9780754665366. Preview The...
- Book Review: The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under The Ptolemies, 305-30 Bc
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Timothy Howe) J. G. Manning, The Last Pharaohs: Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. In The last pharaohs, J. G. Manning attempts to bring Ptolemaic Egypt,...
- Book Review: Traversing Eternity
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by T. G. Wilfong) Mark Smith, Traversing Eternity: Texts for the Afterlife from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Egyptian funerary texts of the Graeco-Roman period are less...
- Book Review: Prinzeps Und Pharao
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Jan Moje) Friederike Herklotz, Prinzeps und Pharao. Der Kult des Augustus in Aegypten. Oikumene. Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, 4. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2007. Die Einnahme Alexandrias durch den...
- Giza And The New 7 Wonders
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=298542007A summary of the row that has grown up between Egypt and the organizer of the New Seven Wonders: "Egyptian officials refused to meet Weber on his visit to Egypt last month. When he tried...