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The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander: Volume 8
By (author) Phiroze Vasunia
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The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite numerous firsthand contacts with Egypt, Greek writers constructed their own Egypt, one that differed in significant ways from actual Egyptian history, society and culture. Informed by recent work on orientalism and colonialism, this book unravels the significance of these misrepresentations of Egypt in the Greek cultural imagination in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE.;Looking in particular at issues of identity, otherness and cultural anxiety, Phiroze Vasunia shows how Greek authors constructed an image of Egypt that reflected their own attitudes and prejudices about Greece itself. He focuses his discussion on Aeschylus ""Suppliants""; Book 2 of Herodotus; Euripides' ""Helen""; Plato's ""Phaedrus"", ""Timaeus"", and ""Critias""; and Isocrates' ""Busiris"". Reconstructing the history of the bias that informed these writings, Vasunia shows that Egypt in these works was shaped in relation to Greek institutions, values and ideas on such subjects as gender and sexuality, death, writing and political and ethn
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Publisher | University of California Press
Published date | 4 Dec 2001
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 360
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 680g
ISBN | 978-0-5202-2820-7
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BISAC | history / world
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