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Author Vasunia, Phiroze, 1966-

Title The gift of the Nile : hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander / Phiroze Vasunia.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.
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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  932.02 V449g 2001    ---  Available
Description xiv, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Classics and contemporary thought ; 8
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-334) and index.
Contents The tragic Egyptian -- Splitting the Danaids -- Egypt as locus for male fertility -- Blackness and death -- Marrying the Egyptians -- Doubles in Helen -- To die for -- Space and otherness -- The Pharaoh's space -- Mapping Egypt -- Symmetry and inversion -- The traveler's eye -- Egyptian space -- In an antique land -- Absolute history -- The legacies of the past -- Egypt and the Trojan War -- Egyptian time -- In an antique land -- Writing Egyptian writing -- Graphomania -- The tyrant's writ -- The Gods of writing -- Plato's grammatology -- Egyptian writing -- Writing and control -- Reading Isocrates' Busiris -- Busiris the Egyptian -- Reading Isocrates' speech -- The paradox of parody -- Isocrates, Plato, Athens -- Plato's Egyptian story -- A graphic history -- From Isocrates to Crantor -- Athens and Atlantis -- Alexander's conquest and the force of tradition -- Greeks and Macedonians -- Homer and Alexander -- Herodotus and Alexander -- Aristotle and Alexander -- The conquest of Egypt.
Subject Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C.
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
Egypt -- In literature.
Historiography -- Greece.
Greek literature -- History and criticism.
ISBN 0520228200 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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