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Cole, Sara E. "Ptolemaic Cavalrymen on Painted Alexandrian Funerary Monuments." Arts 8, no. 2 (2019): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts8020058.

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The multiethnic environment of Ptolemaic Alexandria resulted in cross-cultural transmission of funerary practices and associated material culture that introduced many traditions to Egypt from the Mediterranean world. Along with an influx of mercenaries serving in the Ptolemaic army came cultural and artistic knowledge from their places of origin, which they (or their families) incorporated into their burials. One motif, which appears on late 4th–3rd-century painted funerary monuments from Alexandria, is that of a soldier on horseback, alluding to images of the heroic hunter or warrior on horse

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Pensabene, Patrizio. "Alexandria, Cyrenaica, Cyprus: Ptolemaic Heritage in Imperial Residential Architecture." Światowit, no. 58 (September 14, 2020): 11–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/0082-044x.swiatowit.58.1.

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The relationship between Alexandria and the architectural traditions of Cyrenaica and Cyprus is currently becoming an important research topic. Beside the clear historical and geographical links, many comparisons specifically between the Cyrenaican and Cypriote architecture and that of Alexandria evidence a strong influence of the latter on both lands. The Alexandrian impact on architecture dates back to the Ptolemaic Period and continued under the Romans until late Antiquity

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Mavrojannis, Theodoros. "A Study on the Monumental Center of Ancient Alexandria: The Identification of the Ptolemaic Mouseion and the Urban Transformation in Late Antiquity." Klio 100, no. 1 (2018): 242–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/klio-2018-0009.

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Summary Among the whole burden of the written sources dealing with the urban appearance of Ptolemaic and Roman Alexandria, five or six ancient authors give us precious information which could finally offer a lead to the reconstruction of the monumental center of Alexandria: 1) Strabo, 2) Diodorus, 3) Zenobius, 4) Achilles Tatius, 5) Pseudo-Libanius and 6) Pseudo-Callisthenes. Nowadays, the written testimonia concerning the historical topography of Alexandria are severely withstanding to a hypercritical treatment, to a disapproval instead of a reappraisal.Tkazcow 2013, 687: The reconstruction o

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Belozerov, Sergei. "Euhemerics in early Ptolemaic Alexandria." ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition 17, no. 2 (2023): 1049–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1995-4328-2023-17-2-1049-1071.

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The article presents a new original view on the circumstances and features of the origin of euhemerism in all its genre diversity - from mythographic utopias, chorographies and mirabilia to pseudoperiples and paradoxography. An in-depth analysis of the sources that have come down to us gives grounds to assume with a fairly high degree of probability early Ptolemaic Alexandria as its main launch pad and epicenter and to link it with the activities of Demetrius Phalereus, the founder of the famous in antiquity Mouseion and the Library.

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Pozdnev, Michael. "Students’ Suicide in Ptolemaic Alexandria?" Hyperboreus 23, no. 2 (2018): 266–75. https://doi.org/10.36950/lfgy2489.

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The romantic story of the forceful lectures of the Cyrenaic Hegesias held responsible for suicides among his audience in Alexandria and consequently weaned off lecturing by Ptolemy Soter, although well-rooted both in derivative tradition, translation and commentary, hangs on a single locus in Cicero’s Tusc. 1. 83 and appears to have been spun out of thin air. This piece aims at unwinding this story all the way through the fully derivative testimonies of Valerius Maximus and Plutarch, both serving their own ends, down to its source text which plainly is not about lecturing, but the power of the

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Cole, Sara E. "Negotiating Identity through the Architecture and Interior Decoration of Elite Households in Ptolemaic Egypt." Arts 11, no. 1 (2021): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts11010003.

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In Ptolemaic Egypt (ca. 332–30 BC), numerous physical spaces served as loci of identity negotiation for elite individuals inhabiting a setting where imported Greek traditions interacted with local Egyptian ones. Such negotiations, or maneuverings, often took place through visual culture. This essay explores a sample of the Greek architectural elements and surface decorations used in wealthy Ptolemaic homes and what they communicate about the residents’ sense of identity. The decorative choices made for a home conveyed information about the social status and cultural allegiances of its owner(s)

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Stanwick, Paul Edmund. "A Royal Ptolemaic Bust in Alexandria." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 29 (1992): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40000489.

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Yiftach, Uri. "Politikoi Nomoi Again." Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung 141, no. 1 (2024): 479–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrgr-2024-0010.

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Summary The following paper studies the much-debated term politikoi nomoi (‘civil laws’), as recorded in P.Gur. 2.44–45 = Sel.Pap. II 256 = CPJ I 19 (226 BCE, Crocodilopolis). The term is used here in the context of a diagramma, which allows the consideration in court of the politikoi nomoi – a body of law subsidiary to royal legislation, applicable whenever matter at dispute is not addressed by the latter. I argue that the term is used here for the designation of city laws of Alexandria. In P.Gur. 2, in a case heard by Greek dikasts outside Alexandria, the diagramma is introduced in order to

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Verhoogt, Arthur, and Susan A. Stephens. "Seeing Double: Intercultural Politics in Ptolemaic Alexandria." Journal of the American Oriental Society 124, no. 2 (2004): 368. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4132236.

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Savvopoulos, Kyriakos. "POPULAR DIVINE IMAGERY IN HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN ALEXANDRIA. THE TERRACOTTA FIGURINES COLLECTION OF THE PATRIARCHAL SACRISTY IN ALEXANDRIA." Annual of the British School at Athens 114 (September 20, 2019): 317–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245419000091.

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Terracotta figurines represent one of the most fascinating categories of material evidence from Hellenistic (Ptolemaic) and Roman Egypt relating to the domestic aspects of religious life. They include deities, ordinary humans, animals and sacred symbols, represented in exhaustive variety, both in terms of content and form. The group of terracotta figurines presented in this paper are no exception. It is drawn from the collection of the Sacristy of the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, exhibited in a most impressive Roman cistern, which was discovered during the recent r

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Cunningham, Jeffrey J. Garfinkle Steven J. "The role of learning institutions in Ptolemaic Alexandria /." Online version, 2010. http://content.wwu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/theses&CISOPTR=353&CISOBOX=1&REC=12.

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Ashton, Sally-Ann. "Ptolemaic royal sculpture from Egypt : the Greek and Egyptian traditions and their interaction." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/ptolemaic-royal-sculpture-from-egypt--the-greek-and-egyptian-traditions-and-their-interaction(24b2b31f-d109-4b07-a865-83aa58c37dd7).html.

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Androulaki, Eleni. "Ptolemaic Aspirations in Callimachean Poetry(A geographic perspective)." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468574866.

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Abdo, Amr. "Alexandria in antiquity: a topographical reconstruction." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670088.

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Una reconstrucció topogràfica d’Alexandria a l’antiguitat és un intent de trobar un camí en un laberint arqueològic d’evidències fragmentàries. A la llum de les recents troballes, per tant, es tracta d’un intent complementari a d’altres anteriors (Adriani 1934, 1966; Tkaczow 1993). L’estudi actual, té en compte els darrers dos segles de recerca sistemàtica sobre la topografia de l’antiga ciutat, que té com a objectiu: (i) un catàleg de jaciments arqueològics, des de l’Expedició francesa (1798-9) fins ara; (ii) inferir la planta urbana i el paisatge de la ciutat en la seva fundació (segle IV aC

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Wang, Shichao. "Les relations entre les étrangers et les autochtones à l'époque hellénistique : les modèles d'intégration des étrangers dans l'Empire lagide." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PSLEE003/document.

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Mes travaux en vue de l’obtention d’un doctorat français portent sur les communautés étrangères dans l’Empire lagide. Cette recherche concerne l’identité ethnique des Juifs, des Grecs, des Syriens dans la société égyptienne de l’époque hellénistique et le problème de l’acculturation, plus exactement, des transferts culturels entre ces groupes d’immigrés et la population locale, entre dominants et dominés. Le problème des relations entre Juifs et Grecs, d’une part, est entre Juifs de Palestine et Juifs des différentes diasporas méditerranéennes, d’autre part, occupe une partie importante de ma

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Christoffersson, Lawe. "Biblioteket i Alexandria: arv från den grekiska världen eller Österlandet? : En diskursanalytisk studie." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-504.

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The aim of this study is to examine the scientific discourse surrounding the founding of the ancient Library in Alexandria. For this I have used a discourse analytical method and I have limited the investigation by only looking at scholarly books from the period 1952 to 2009. In the initial reading it became obvious that authors exclusively cite influences from three different contexts: a Greek influence, a Hellenistic influence, and a native Egyptian/near eastern influence. This seemed to be an interesting and relevant area of study, especially since it could pertain to the modern library con

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Chezum, Tiffany. "On the endurance of indigenous religious culture in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt : evidence of material culture." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d6bee2aa-49a5-42db-9617-394ea1f73cf5.

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The aim of this thesis is to examine changes in the status of traditional Egyptian religious culture during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, from 331 BCE to 313 CE. Four distinct categories of material culture are examined: monumental construction of temples and civic buildings, traditional hard-stone sculpture, Alexandrian tombs, and Roman coins. These bodies of evidence were chosen because each offers a unique perspective, reflecting respectively the personal inclinations and official attitudes of both the culturally Hellenic and indigenous elites, which have not previously been studied in t

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Yatsuhashi, Akira V. "In the Bird Cage of the Muses: Archiving, Erudition, and Empire in Ptolemaic Egypt." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3043.

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<p><p>This dissertation investigates the prominent role of the Mouseion-Library of Alexandria in the construction of a new community of archivist-poets during the third century BCE in the wake of Alexander the Great's conquests. I contend that the Mouseion was a new kind of institution--an imperial archive--that facilitated a kind of political domination that worked through the production, perpetuation, and control of particular knowledges about the world rather than through fear and brute force.</p></p><p><p>Specifically, I argue that those working in the Mouseion, or Library, were shaping a

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Maldoni, Liam. "Contemplate the Lord and live justly': Establishing the authorial intent behind The Letter of Aristeas." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/267136.

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Sometime between the middle of the second century and the late first century BCE, an anonymous Jew of Ptolemaic Alexandria authored a fictional letter, containing a remarkable story of Jewish-Greek cooperation. Told through its fictional, Gentile narrator, Aristeas, the letter, known as The Letter of Aristeas, recounts the story of the Hebrew Torah’s translation into Greek, commissioned by King Ptolemy II for the library of Alexandria but carried out by Jewish translators sent by Jerusalem’s High Priest. Culturally, the Letter is a striking text. It

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Books on the topic "Ptolemaic Alexandria"

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A, Stephens Susan. Seeing double: Intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria. University of California Press, 2003.

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Ptolemaic Alexandria. Clarendon Press, 2001.

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Fraser, P. M. Ptolemaic Alexandria. Oxford University Press, USA, 1985.

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Stephens, Susan A. Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria. University of California Press, 2003.

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Stephens, Susan A. Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria. University of California Press, 2003.

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Seeing double: Intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria. University of California Press, 2003.

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Bowman, Alan, and Charles Crowther, eds. The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858225.001.0001.

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The book contains twelve chapters, by various authors, discussing aspects of the Greek and Egyptian bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, from the conquest by Alexander the Great (332 BC) to the death of Kleopatra VII (30 BC). It is intended as a complement to the publication of the full texts, with up-to-date commentaries and images, of about 650 inscriptions on stone. These include major decrees of priestly colleges, such as the Rosetta Stone, and a great variety of religious and secular monuments from the whole of Egypt, from Alexandria to Philae. The

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Alexandria and the moon: An investigation into the lunar Macedonian calendar of Ptolemaic Egypt. Peeters, 2011.

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Bertoni, Sergio, and Elena Volpato. Cleoth and Arkh: From Syracuse to Alexandria. Magic, Love, Mystery and Wars in Ancient Egypt, During the Ptolemaic Era. Independently Published, 2018.

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Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions Volume 1, Alexandria and the Delta : Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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Stephens, Susan. "Ptolemaic Alexandria." In A Companion to Hellenistic Literature. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118970577.ch4.

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Aufrère, Sydney H. "Dualism and Focalization in Alexandrian Religious Thought in Egypt at the Beginning of the Ptolemaic Period: Manetho of Sebennytos and the Argive Myth." In Light Against Darkness. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/9783666550164.36.

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Visscher, Marijn S. "Babylon, City of Kings." In Beyond Alexandria. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059088.003.0003.

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The chapter aims to demonstrate that Seleucid writings from and about Babylon provide insight into the ways in which literature was used to construct and reflect practices of empire. The literature dealing with Babylonia is of special significance because of the important ideological position Babylon held in the Seleucid imagination. To unpack this point further, the chapter analyses the Borsippa Cylinder as Seleucid literature, by arguing that King Antiochus I combined motifs from Mesopotamian kingship and Hellenistic royal practices to create a narrative of Seleucid euergetism embedded in, r

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Paganini, Mario C. D. "The Gymnasium at Alexandria." In Gymnasia and Greek Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845801.003.0003.

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This chapter is solely devoted to the discussion of the gymnasium of Alexandria. Through the analysis of both literary and documentary sources, it appears clear that the gymnasium of Alexandria occupied a position of importance within the city and was often chosen as place for momentous—sometimes rather gruesome—events. In addition to the main gymnasium, the chapter shows how other gymnasia were also present and active in the city, as well as other places called palaestrae which were devoted to physical training. Questions concerning the foundation and status of the main Alexandrian gymnasium

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"Medicine in Alexandria." In Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt. BRILL, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004235519_007.

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Visscher, Marijn S. "The Lock of Berenice." In Beyond Alexandria. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059088.003.0004.

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The third chapter discusses a moment of profound crisis in Seleucid history: the dynastic strife between the two wives of Antiochus II resulting in the Third Syrian War. It argues that Callimachus’ Lock of Berenice can be read as a poetic commentary on a key moment of crisis for the Seleucid Empire, in that it subtly contrasts the failure of a Seleucid dynastic marriage with the success of the Ptolemaic royal couple, which is placed in an unbroken tradition that reaches back via Arsinoe II and Ptolemy II to Berenice I and Ptolemy I. In the second part of the chapter, it is argued that Callimac

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Khalil, Emad. "The navy of Ptolemaic Alexandria." In Hellenistic Alexandria: Celebrating 24 Centuries – Papers presented at the conference held on December 13–15 2017 at Acropolis Museum, Athens. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.15135944.11.

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Voutiras, Emmanuel. "From Macedonia to Ptolemaic Alexandria:." In Hellenistic Alexandria: Celebrating 24 Centuries – Papers presented at the conference held on December 13–15 2017 at Acropolis Museum, Athens. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.15135944.20.

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Savvopoulos, Kyriakos. "Religious Life in Ptolemaic Alexandria under the Royal Aegis." In The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858225.003.0006.

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A large proportion of the inscriptional evidence from Alexandria illustrates the key role of religious institutions and activities, under direct or indirect royal patronage, in the formation of a diverse and flexible cultural environment affording multiple permutations. As part of this environment, religion became the vehicle for the promotion of an ideological programme, appropriate for communicating the dual (i.e. Macedonian and Egyptian) character of the Ptolemaic monarchy in which the individual rulers have both human and divine characteristics. This chapter provides an updated chronologic

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Ashton, Sally-Ann. "Ptolemaic Alexandria and the Egyptian tradition." In Alexandria, Real and Imagined. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315262956-2.

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