Ian S. Moyer's Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism PDF

By Ian S. Moyer

ISBN-10: 052176551X

ISBN-13: 9780521765510

ISBN-10: 1107542898

ISBN-13: 9781107542891

In a sequence of reports, Ian Moyer explores the traditional historical past and smooth historiography of family members among Egypt and Greece from the 5th century BCE to the early Roman empire. starting with Herodotus, he analyzes key encounters among Greeks and Egyptian clergymen, the bearers of Egypt's historic traditions. 4 moments spread as wealthy micro-histories of cross-cultural interplay: Herodotus' interviews with monks at Thebes; Manetho's composition of an Egyptian heritage in Greek; the struggles of Egyptian clergymen on Delos; and a Greek physician's quest for magic in Egypt. In writing those histories, the writer strikes past Orientalizing representations of the opposite and colonial metanarratives of the civilizing strategy to bare interactions among Greeks and Egyptians as transactional techniques within which the traditions, discourses and pragmatic pursuits of each side formed the end result. the result's a dialogical heritage of cultural and highbrow exchanges among the good civilizations of Greece and Egypt.

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