Memphis Under the Ptolemies - 9780691140339

Description: Memphis Under the PtolemiesSecond Edition Author(s): Dorothy J. Thompson Format: Paperback Publisher: Princeton University Press, United States Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 9780691140339, 978-0691140339 Synopsis Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.

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Book Title: Memphis Under the Ptolemies

Number of Pages: 360 Pages

Publication Name: Memphis under the Ptolemies: Second Edition

Language: English

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Item Height: 235 mm

Subject: Archaeology, History

Publication Year: 2012

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 539 g

Author: Dorothy J. Thompson

Item Width: 152 mm

Format: Paperback