Greco-Egyptian Interactions: Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BC-AD 300

408 Pages·2016·19.191 MB·English

by  Ian Rutherford (editor)

Greco-Egyptian
Interactions
Literature, Translation, and
–
Culture, 500 300
BCE CE
Edited by
IAN RUTHERFORD
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GRECO-EGYPTIAN INTERACTIONS

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Acknowledgements
Many of the papers in this volume had their origin in a conference
at the University of Reading, Graeco-Aegyptiaca/Aegypto-Graeca:
Interactions between Greece and Egypt 700 BCE–300 CE. I’d like to
thank the British Academy for supporting that with a conference
grant and the University of Reading for providing facilities and
general support. Some of the editing in the final stages in 2013–14
wasdonewhenIwasavisitingresearchscholarattheInstituteforthe
StudyoftheAncientWorldinNewYork.Finally,manythankstothe
SacklerLibraryinOxfordforfacilitatingresearch.

Contents
ListofFigures ix
ListofContributors xi
1. IanRutherford,‘Introduction:Interactionand
TranslationbetweenGreekLiteratureandEgypt’ 1
2. SusanStephens,‘Plato’sEgyptianRepublic’ 41
3. AlexandravonLieven,‘TranslatingGods,Interpreting
Gods:OntheMechanismsbehindtheInterpretatio
GraecaofEgyptianGods’ 61
4. IanRutherford,‘TheEarliestCross-CulturalReception
ofHomer?TheInaros-NarrativesofGreco-RomanEgypt’ 83
5. JohnDillery,‘LiteraryInteractionbetweenGreece
andEgypt:ManethoandSynchronism’ 107
6. LloydLlewellyn-JonesandStephanieWinder,‘The
HathoricModelofQueenshipinEarlyPtolemaicEgypt:
TheCaseofBerenike’sLock’ 139
7. IvanA.Ladynin,‘VirtualHistoryEgyptianStyle:
TheIsolationistConceptofthePotter’sOracleandits
Alternative’ 163
8. NikolaosLazaridis,‘DifferentParallels,Different
Interpretations.ReadingParallelsbetweenAncient
EgyptianandGreekWorksofLiterature’ 187
9. IanMoyer,‘IsidorusattheGatesoftheTemple’ 209
10. SteveVinson,‘GoodandBadWomeninEgyptian
andGreekFiction’ 245
11. JoachimQuack,‘TranslatingtheRealitiesofCult:
TheCaseoftheBookoftheTemple’ 267
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12. GaëlleTallet,‘MandulisApollo’sDiplomacy:Echoesof
GreekCultureandHellenismatTalmis(Nubia)
intheRomanPeriod’ 287
13. RichardJasnow,‘“BetweenTwoWaters”:TheBookof
ThothandtheProblemofGreco-EgyptianInteraction’ 317
14. GideonBohak,‘TheDiffusionoftheGreco-Egyptian
MagicalTraditioninLateAntiquity’ 357
Index 383
List of Figures
6.1 PtolemyIIIandBerenikeIIreceivetheirroyaltitlesand
symbolsofperpetualrule,allcarefullyrecordedbythegod
Khonsu.Thepharaohwearsthedoublecrownwhilethequeen
wearsthedistinctiveHathorheaddressofsundisk,horns,
andplumes.RelieffromtheEuergetesGate,temple
ofKarnak.Photograph:LloydLlewellyn-Jones. 154
6.2 BerenikeII(facemutilatedprobablyintheearlyChristian
period)wearsthedistinctivecrownofthegoddessHathor.
DetailofarelieffromtheEuergetesGate,temple
ofKarnak.Photograph:LloydLlewellyn-Jones. 154
6.3 PtolemygivesnujarsandBerenikeIIofferslotusgarlands
tothegodKhonsu,accompaniedbehindthethronebyHet
Heret,afertilityaspectofHathor.RelieffromtheEuergetes
Gate,templeofKarnak.Photograph:LloydLlewellyn-Jones. 155
8.1 Factorsinfluencingliteraryinteractionandtheevaluation
ofliteraryparallels 189
9.1 PlacementoftheHymnsofIsidorusatthegatesofthe
templeatMedinetMadi(planadaptedfromVogliano1937) 213
11.1 PSIInv.I89,firstfragmentPSIInv.I89,secondfragment,
PSIInv.I89,thirdfragmentP.Carlsberg312 272
12.1 CopiesofGreekinscriptionsfromthetempleofMandulis
byLepsiusandGauthier 289
12.2 ‘Mandulisthegreatgod(netjeraa)’,depictedasayoung
adultandcrownedwiththeatefandthehemhemcrowns
©PrFrançoiseDunand 297
12.3 TheUnderworldisdividedintosixareacaverns(qereret)
©Hornung(1999) 299
12.4 Mandulisdepictedasachildsittingonalotusflower
©PrFrançoiseDunand 301
12.5 Mandulisthetriplegod©PrFrançoiseDunand 305
12.6 MandulisasasolarGreekgodsittingonalotus
©PrFrançoiseDunand 307
12.7 HorusinanoracularstatuefromtheEgyptianMuseum
inCairo 308