Egypt in the age of Cleopatra : history and society under the Ptolemies /
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| Author / Creator: | Chauveau, Michel. |
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| Uniform title: | Egypte au temps de Cléopâtre. English |
| Imprint: | Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, c2000. |
| Description: | vii, 226 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4257109 |
Table of Contents:
- Map of Egypt
- 1. Historical Perspective. The Heritage of Alexander the Great. Crisis in the Kingdom under Philopator and Epiphanes. Ptolemy VI Philometor and the Recovery of Egypt. The Fat King and His Wives. Physkon's Children. Ptolemy the Flutist. The Flight and Return of Auletes. Auletes's Children. Cleopatra, Ally of Rome. Cleopatra and Antony
- 2. Greek Pharaohs and their Subjects. Kings, Queens, and Royal Children. A King for the Greeks. The Deified King. A Pharaoh for the Egyptians. A Pharaoh for the Gods. Protection of the Temples. Royal "Philanthropy" Visits to the Provinces. A Regal Life. The Program of the Royal Titularies. The Allegiance of the Clergy. The Ideology of Resistance
- 3. Cities and Countryside. A Unique Land. A Multitudinous Population. The Lagide Capital. The Center of the Hellenistic World. The Delta. Memphis and the Faiyum. Map of the Faiyum area. Upper Egypt. Architecture and Urbanism
- 4. Economy and Society. The Weight of Bureaucracy. The Strategos. The Official Scribes. The Burden of Taxation. Resistance and Contraband. A Cash Economy. The Ravages of Inflation. The Misery of the Peasants. Autopsy of a Village: Kerkeosiris. Artisans and Shopkeepers. Greeks and Egyptians before the Law. Slavery
- 5. Priests and Temples. The Most Religious of Peoples. New Sanctuaries. Sacred Animals. The Prestige of the Priests. Piety outside the Temples. Greek Priests. Temple Economy. Oracles and Oaths. Strange Slaves. The Deities of Memphis. The Life and Dreams of Ptolemaios the Recluse. Coveted Virgins. The Woes of an Egyptian Mendicant Friar. To Be Greek in an Egyptian Temple. An Informer in the Temple
- 6. Living on the Death of others. The Land of the Dead. The Greeks and the Egyptian Afterlife. Specialists in the Service of the Dead. The Choachytai at Work. A Professional Association. "Saints" Sometimes Disturbed. Division of Labor in the Other Corporations. A Disputed House. Cadavers in the City. An Embalmer Complains to the King
- 7. Soldiers and Peasants. A Military State. Soldiers in the Countryside. The Hazards of Cohabitation. Independent Income from Real Estate. A Soldier-Speculator: Dionysios, Son of Kephalas. A Curious "Persian" A Military Colony in the South of Egypt: Pathyris. A Cretan in Egypt: The Cavalryman Dryton. The Solidarity of an Egyptian Family. The Sudden Disappearance of a Garrison. The End of the Lagide Army
- 8. Two Languages, Two Cultures, Three Writing Systems. A Multicultural Society. The New Athens. Decline and Rebirth of Alexandrianism. Medicine in the Reign of Cleopatra. Greek Culture in the Countryside. Poems in the Midst of Accounts. Hellenizing Distractions at the Serapeum. Apollonios and the Last Pharaoh. The Native Temples as Guardians of Religious Culture. Demotic: Living Language and New Literature. Egyptian Stories and Romances. Wisdom and Satire. Hellenism at Edfu.
