Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-334) and index.
Contents
1. The tragic Egyptian -- Splitting the Danaids -- Egypt as locus for male fertility -- Blackness and death -- Marrying the Egyptians -- Doubles in Helen -- To die for -- 2. Space and otherness -- The Pharaoh's space -- Mapping Egypt -- Symmetry and inversion -- The traveler's eye -- Egyptian space -- 3. In an antique land -- Absolute history -- The legacies of the past -- Egypt and the Trojan War -- Egyptian time -- In an antique land -- 4. Writing Egyptian writing -- Graphomania -- The tyrant's writ -- The Gods of writing -- Plato's grammatology -- Egyptian writing -- Writing and control -- 5. Reading Isocrates' Busiris -- Busiris the Egyptian -- Reading Isocrates' speech -- The paradox of parody -- Isocrates, Plato, Athens -- 6. Plato's Egyptian story -- A graphic history -- From Isocrates to Crantor -- Athens and Atlantis -- 7. Alexander's conquest and the force of tradition -- Greeks and Macedonians -- Homer and Alexander -- Herodotus and Alexander -- Aristotle and Alexander -- The conquest of Egypt -- Epilogue.
