Allure of the Ancient

Margaret Geoga, Ph.D. (2020, Brown University), is an Egyptologist specializing in ancient Egyptian literature and the reception history of ancient Egypt. She has published on the transmission and reception of Egyptian poetry, as well as ancient Egyptian religion.John Steele, Ph.D. (1998, Durham University), is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at Brown University. He has published extensively on the history of astronomy, with a particular focus on Babylonian astronomy and its later reception.

• Editors’ AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors1 IntroductionMargaret Geoga and John Steele2 Images of Babylon in Early Modern EuropeMichael Seymour3 Between Babylon and Rome: The Panorama of Constantinople (1662)Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby4 Collapsing Identities of Ptolemaic Queens in Early Modern RomeAndrea L. Middleton5 Reading the East: From the Enlightenment to the Utopic Projects of the Revolutionary ArchitectsElisa Boeri6 Freemasons and Platonism: The Allure of Egypt between Big Ideas and Small DetailsFlorian Ebeling7 Zoroaster’s French MomentMaryam Sanjabi8 Ancient and Modern: Citational Practices and the Status of Ancient Egypt in Jean Terrasson’s SéthosMargaret Geoga9 Representing Egypt in French Enlightenment Musical Theatre: From Gherardi to the Opéra nationalMark Darlow10 From Tragic Hero to Creole Businesswoman: Voltaire’s Semiramis and Her Parodies in 18th-Century France and Saint-DomingueJulia Prest11 Babylonians in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: Comparative Antiquarianism in the Work of SahagúnFelipe Rojas Silva12 Egypt and Babylon in Eighteenth-Century European Histories of AstronomyJohn Steele13 What Was Oriental Studies in Early Modern Europe? “Oriental Languages” and the Making of a DisciplineDaniel Stolzenberg14 On Religious Systems: An Early Essay by Jean-François ChampollionDiane Greco JosefowiczIndex Nominum