Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt: Case Studies in the Social History of the Hellenistic WorldAmerican Society of Papyrologists, 2001 - 182 pages The conquests of Alexander the Great were followed by a flood of Greek migration into the lands previously ruled by Persia. In Egypt, thanks to the survival of collections of related documents written on papyrus, it is possible to study the fortunes of some of these immigrants and their families, and of some of their Egyptian neighbors, with an immediacy provided by no other ancient source. In this book we see the engineer Kleon battling with problems of irrigation and silting, while the district officer Diophanes deals with disputes arising from the mutual hostility between two populations. Some Egyptians, such as Menkhes the village clerk and Panebkhounis the soldier, gain through their services some of the privileges enjoyed by the Greeks; the Greek cavalry officer Dryton, on the other hand, marries an Egyptian, and in the next generation his family begins to lose its Greek identity. These and other case studies compose a vivid picture of life in a country in which the native Egyptian population is dominated by a privileged and exclusive Greek minority. |
Table des matières
The Engineer Kleon | 37 |
The Strategos Diophanes | 56 |
The Recluse Ptolemaios | 69 |
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Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt: Case Studies in the Social History of the ... Naphtali Lewis Affichage d'extraits - 1986 |
Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt: Case Studies in the Social History of the ... Naphtali Lewis Affichage d'extraits - 2001 |
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Akoris Alexandria Ammonios Apollonios appear archive arouras Arsinoite nome artabs of wheat Asklepiades bank banker billets brother Caesarion Chapter cleruchs complaint contract copper drachmas crown land cult cultivation Date daughter Demetrios Demotic Dionysios Diophanes Diophanes the strategos drachmas dream Dryton Egyptian language Egyptian name Esthladas evidence extant documents Farewell father finance minister Glaukias gods Greek cities Greek names Grenf Hellenic Hellenistic Horos immigrants instruct Diophanes irrigation Kerkeosiris King Ptolemy greeting king's Kleon Kleopatra klēros Krokodilopolis later lease letter living loan Macedonian marriage Memphis Menkhes mercenaries military months native Nikanor Nile Panebkhounis papyri Papyrology Pathyris Patous Peteharsemtheus petition Pharaohs police chief priest Ptolemaic Egypt Ptolemaios Ptolemy II Philadelphos queen quoted records rents revealed Roman Sarapias second century BC Select Papyri Serapeion Serapis soldiers status strategos strategos to write Takmeïs tax farmers temple Theodoros third century BC Totoēs village clerk wife written