Greco-Egyptian Interactions

Ian Rutherford is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading.

a compact and very informative collection of papers, which will certainly advance the appreciation and awareness of Greco-Egyptian cultural interactions.

• Acknowledgements ; List of Figures ; List of Contributors ; 1. Aegypto-Graeca: Interaction and Translation between Greek Literature and Egypt ; 2. Plato's Egyptian Republic ; 3. Translating Gods, Interpreting Gods: On the Mechanisms behind the Interpretatio Graeca of Egyptian Gods ; 4. The Earliest Cross-Cultural Reception of Homer? The Inaros Narratives of Greco-Roman Egypt ; 5. Literary Interaction between Greece and Egypt: Manetho and Synchronism ; 6. The Hathoric Model of Queenship in Early Ptolemaic Egypt: The Case of Berenike's Lock ; 7. Virtual History Egyptian Style: The Isolationist Concept of the Potter's Oracle and its Alternative ; 8. Different Parallels, Different Interpretations: Reading Parallels between Ancient Egyptian and Greek Works of Literature ; 9. Isidorus at the Gates of the Temple ; 10. Good and Bad Women in Egyptian and Greek Fiction ; 11. Translating the Realities of Cult: The Case of the Book of the Temple ; 12. Mandulis Apollo: Echoes of Greek Culture and Hellenism at Talmis (Nubia) in the Roman Period ; 13. 'Between Two Waters': The Book of Thoth and the Problem of Graeco-Egyptian Interaction ; 14. The Diffusion of the Greco-Egyptian Magical Tradition in Late Antiquity ; Index