Description: Memphis Under the Ptolemies, Paperback by Thompson, Dorothy J., ISBN 0691140332, ISBN-13 9780691140339, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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 Thompsons 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 gods 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
Language: English
Publication Name: Memphis under the Ptolemies : Second Edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Archaeology, Ancient / Greece, Ancient / Egypt, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year: 2012
Features: Revised
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Author: Dorothy J. Thompson
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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