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Author Stephens, Susan A.

Title Seeing double : intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria / Susan A. Stephens.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages).
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Series The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Hellenistic culture and society ; 37
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Hellenistic culture and society ; 37.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and indexes.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Conceptualizing Egypt -- 2. Callimachean Theogonies -- 3. Theocritean Regencies -- 4. Apollonian Cosmologies -- 5. The Two Lands -- Select Bibliography -- Passages Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary 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.
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Subject Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C.
Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C.
Ptolemaic dynasty, 305 B.C.-30 B.C.
Ptolemaic dynasty, 305 B.C.-30 B.C.
Greek poetry, Hellenistic -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History and criticism.
Greek poetry, Hellenistic.
Egypt -- Alexandria.
Egyptian poetry -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History and criticism.
Egyptian poetry.
Comparative literature -- Greek and Egyptian.
Comparative literature.
Comparative literature -- Egyptian and Greek.
Language and culture -- Egypt -- Alexandria.
Language and culture.
Alexandria (Egypt) -- Intellectual life.
Poetics -- History -- To 1500.
Poetics.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Intellectual life.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Chronological Term To 500
Indexed Term Litteratur Klassiske litteraturer.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Seeing double Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. 0520229738 (alk. paper) (DLC) 2002007570
ISBN 9780520927384 ebook
0520927389
0520229738 alkaline paper
0585466491 (electronic book)
9780585466491 (electronic book)
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