Seeing Double

Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria

By:

Susan A Stephens

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Hardback

Series:

Hellenistic Culture and Society

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When, in the third century BCE, the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering an 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 positions Alexandrian poetry as part of the dynamic in which Greek and Egyptian worlds were bound to interact socially, politically and imaginatively.

Author Biography:

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 Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments (1995) and Didymus in Demosthenem: Commenta (1985).

Release date Australia

January 27th, 2003

Author

Susan A Stephens

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

6 b-w photographs

Pages

311

Series

Hellenistic Culture and Society

Dimensions

152x229x28

ISBN-13

9780520229730

Product ID

7578707

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