Susan A. Stephens 
Seeing Double [PDF ebook] 
Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria

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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 argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius proved instrumental in bridging the distance between the two distinct and at times diametrically opposed cultures under Ptolemaic rule. Her work successfully positi...

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Table of Content

List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Conceptualizing Egypt
2. Callimachean Theogonies
3. Theocritean Regencies
4. Apollonian Cosmolo...

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About the author

Susan A. Stephens is Professor of Classics at Stanford University, author of Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library II (1985), and coeditor of...

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 311 ● ISBN 9780520927384 ● File size 2.4 MB ● Publisher University of California Press ● Published 2003 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4995151 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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