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The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander Book

The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander
The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite numerous firsthand contacts with Egypt, Greek writers const, The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander has a rating of 2.5 stars
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The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite numerous firsthand contacts with Egypt, Greek writers const, The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander
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  • The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander
  • Written by author Phiroze Vasunia
  • Published by University of California Press, December 2001
  • The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite numerous firsthand contacts with Egypt, Greek writers const
  • The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite numerous firsthand contacts with Egypt, Greek writers const
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Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Ancient Egypt
Introduction1
1The Tragic Egyptian33
Splitting the Danaids40
Egypt as Locus for Male Fertility43
Blackness and Death47
Marrying the Egyptians53
Doubles in Helen58
To Die For64
2Space and Otherness75
The Pharaoh's Space77
Mapping Egypt87
Symmetry and Inversion92
The Traveler's Eye100
Egyptian Space103
3In an Antique Land110
Absolute History112
The Legacies of the Past117
Egypt and the Trojan War121
Egyptian Time126
In an Antique Land131
4Writing Egyptian Writing136
Graphomania138
The Tyrant's Writ142
The Gods of Writing146
Plato's Grammatology155
Egyptian Writing159
Writing and Control176
5Reading Isocrates' Busiris183
Busiris the Egyptian185
Reading Isocrates' Speech193
The Paradox of Parody199
Isocrates, Plato, Athens207
6Plato's Egyptian Story216
A Graphic History218
From Isocrates to Crantor226
Athens and Atlantis236
7Alexander's Conquest and the Force of Tradition248
Greeks and Macedonians252
Homer and Alexander253
Herodotus and Alexander256
Aristotle and Alexander261
The Conquest of Egypt265
Epilogue282
AppFragmentary Greek Historians on Egypt, to 332 B.C.E.289
Abbreviations307
Bibliography309
Index337


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