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Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt : case studies in the social history of the Hellenistic world

by: Lewis, N.

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Category: Greek History
Code: 3275
ISBN-13: 9780198148678 / 978-0-19-814867-8
ISBN-10: 0198148674 / 0-19-814867-4
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1986
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 190
Book Condition: As New
Comments: Out of Print

 The conquests of Alexander the Great were followed by a flood of Greek migration into the lands previously ruled by Persia. In Egypt, thanks to the survival of collections of related documents written on papyrus, it is possible to study the fortunes of some of these immigrants and their families, and of some of their Egyptian neighbors, with an immediacy provided by no other ancient source. In this book we see the engineer Kleon battling with problems of irrigation and silting, while the district officer Diophanes deals with disputes arising from the mutual hostility between two populations. Some Egyptians, such as Menkhes the village clerk and Panebkhounis the soldier, gain through their services some of the privileges enjoyed by the Greeks; the Greek cavalry officer Dryton, on the other hand, marries an Egyptian, and in the next generation his family begins to lose its Greek identity. These and other case studies compose a vivid picture of life in a country in which the native Egyptian population is dominated by a privileged and exclusive Greek minority


The Backdrop: Eldorado on the Nile
The engineer Kleon
Nikanor and other bankers
The strategos Diophanes
The recluse Ptolemaios
A Greek stationed among Egyptians: calvary officier Dryton and his family
Upward mobility in the civil service: Menkhes, village clerk
Upward mobility in the military services: Dionysios son of Kephalas; Peteharsemtheus son of Panebkhounis

xii, 182 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Subjects:
332 B.C.-638 A.D
Ancient Egypt Ancient Greeks, B.C.300-B.C.200
Civilization
Egypt
Egypt Civilization 332 B.C.-638 A.D
Egypt Emigration and immigration
Egypt History Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D
Égypte 332-30 av. J.-C
Égypte Civilisation 332 av. J.-C.-640
Égypte Conditions sociales 332 av. J.-C.-640
Grecs Égypte
Grecs Égypte Histoire
Greeks
Greeks Egypt
Grieken
Hellenism
History
Immigranten
Ptolemaeën
Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C

 
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Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt : case studies in the social history of the Hellenistic world

by: Lewis, N.

  • ISBN-13: 9780198148678 / 978-0-19-814867-8
  • ISBN-03: 0198148674 / 0-19-814867-4
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986

Price: 49,00 EURO

(in stock)