- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Original Sources of Chapters
- Illustrations
- Glossary
- [UNTITLED]
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Ptolemy I and the Quest for Legitimacy
- Chapter 2 Ptolemy III and Philae: Snapshot of a Reign, a Temple and a Cult
- Chapter 3 Cleopatra, the Diadem and the Image
- Chapter 4 Cleopatra Vii Philopatris
- Chapter 5 The Dynastic Politics of Cleopatra Vii
- Chapter 6 The Thracians in Ptolemaic Egypt
- Chapter 7 Ptolemaic Papyri and the Achaean Diaspora In Hellenistic Egypt
- Chapter 8 Greek Presence and the Ptolemaic Rural Setting
- Chapter 9 The Urban Milieu in the Egyptian Countryside During the Ptolemaic Period
- Chapter 10 Kerkeosiris and its Greeks in the Second Century<sup>1</sup>
- Chapter 11 The Cavalry Settlers of the Herakleopolite in the First Century
- Chapter 12 Two Royal Ordinances of the First Century and the Alexandrians
- Chapter 13 The Revenue Laws Papyrus: Greek Tradition and Hellenistic Adaptation
- Chapter 14 The Structural Tensions of Ptolemaic Society
- Chapter 15 The Third-century Land-leases From Tholthis
- Chapter 16 Greek Economy and Egyptian Society in the Third Century
- Chapter 17 Greeks and Egyptians According to <i>PSI</i> V 502
- Chapter 18 Graeco-Roman Egypt and the Question of Cultural Interactions
- Chapter 19 Normality and Distinctiveness in the Epigraphy of Greek and Roman Egypt
- Conclusion
- Bibligraphy
- General Index
- Index of Passages Discussed
- Hellenistic Culture and Society
Graeco-Roman Egypt and the Question of Cultural Interactions
Graeco-Roman Egypt and the Question of Cultural Interactions
- Chapter:
- (p.240) Chapter 18 Graeco-Roman Egypt and the Question of Cultural Interactions
- Source:
- Hellenistic Egypt
- Author(s):
Jean Bingen
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
The rich documentation in both Egyptian and Greek from Hellenistic Egypt offers an exceptional opportunity to study cultural interaction in the ancient world. This chapter looks at the difficulties posed by such study from the conceptual and methodological points of view. Neither “Greek” nor “Egyptian” is in fact a simple, coherent category, both groups having tremendous internal diversity and in some cases long interaction before the Ptolemaic period. The evidence suggests for the early centuries the maintenance of separate cultural traditions, but the same individual can operate in both in their different languages, exaggerating the appearance of separation. It is particularly in the area of religion that interaction can be seen to be intense and complex.
Keywords: Egyptian religion, temples, intermarriage, bilingualism, epigraphy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Original Sources of Chapters
- Illustrations
- Glossary
- [UNTITLED]
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Ptolemy I and the Quest for Legitimacy
- Chapter 2 Ptolemy III and Philae: Snapshot of a Reign, a Temple and a Cult
- Chapter 3 Cleopatra, the Diadem and the Image
- Chapter 4 Cleopatra Vii Philopatris
- Chapter 5 The Dynastic Politics of Cleopatra Vii
- Chapter 6 The Thracians in Ptolemaic Egypt
- Chapter 7 Ptolemaic Papyri and the Achaean Diaspora In Hellenistic Egypt
- Chapter 8 Greek Presence and the Ptolemaic Rural Setting
- Chapter 9 The Urban Milieu in the Egyptian Countryside During the Ptolemaic Period
- Chapter 10 Kerkeosiris and its Greeks in the Second Century<sup>1</sup>
- Chapter 11 The Cavalry Settlers of the Herakleopolite in the First Century
- Chapter 12 Two Royal Ordinances of the First Century and the Alexandrians
- Chapter 13 The Revenue Laws Papyrus: Greek Tradition and Hellenistic Adaptation
- Chapter 14 The Structural Tensions of Ptolemaic Society
- Chapter 15 The Third-century Land-leases From Tholthis
- Chapter 16 Greek Economy and Egyptian Society in the Third Century
- Chapter 17 Greeks and Egyptians According to <i>PSI</i> V 502
- Chapter 18 Graeco-Roman Egypt and the Question of Cultural Interactions
- Chapter 19 Normality and Distinctiveness in the Epigraphy of Greek and Roman Egypt
- Conclusion
- Bibligraphy
- General Index
- Index of Passages Discussed
- Hellenistic Culture and Society
