Egypt and the Classical World : Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity /
edited by Jeffrey Spier and Sara E. Cole.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource (202 pages): illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ;
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
From Thutmoses III to Homer to Blackadder: Egypt, the Aegean, and the "Barbarian Periphery" of the Late Bronze Age World System / Jorrit M. Kelder -- Mediterranean Encounters: Greeks, Carians, and Egyptians in the First Millennium BC / Alexandra Villing -- "I Am Isis": The Role of Speech in the Cult of Isis / Martin Bommas -- The Creation of New "Cultural Codes": The Ptolemaic Queens and Their Syncretic Processes with Isis, Hathor, and Aphrodite / Martina Minas-Nerpel -- The Kellis Mammisi: A Painted Chapel from the Final Centuries of the Ancient Egyptian Religion / Olaf E. Kaper -- Appropriation and Synthesis in the Villa of Herodes Atticus at Eva (Loukou), Greece / George Spyropoulos -- "To Isis the Great, Lady of Benevento": Privately Dedicated Egyptian Obelisks in Imperial Rome and the Twin Obelisks of Benevento Reedited / Luigi Prada and Paul D. Wordsworth.
Open Access
"This publication, the proceedings of a 2018 scholars' symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the exhibition Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, synthesizes current research on cultural interactions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Roman Empire"--