05271nam 2201237 a 450 991082145150332120240410062842.097866123566740-520-92738-91-282-35667-41-59734-889-910.1525/9780520927384(CKB)111087027178598(EBL)223170(OCoLC)1087043318(OCoLC)475927188(SSID)ssj0000243397(PQKBManifestationID)11217961(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243397(PQKBWorkID)10341411(PQKB)10465309(MiAaPQ)EBC223170(OCoLC)52862180(MdBmJHUP)muse30763(DE-B1597)521027(DE-B1597)9780520927384(Au-PeEL)EBL223170(CaPaEBR)ebr10051173(CaONFJC)MIL235667(EXLCZ)9911108702717859820020514d2003 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrSeeing double[electronic resource] intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria /Susan A. Stephens1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20031 online resource (317 p.)Hellenistic culture and society ;37The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literatureDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-22973-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and indexes.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Preface --Abbreviations --Introduction --1. Conceptualizing Egypt --2. Callimachean Theogonies --3. Theocritean Regencies --4. Apollonian Cosmologies --5. The Two Lands --Select Bibliography --Index of Passages Cited --IndexWhen, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius proved instrumental in bridging the distance between the two distinct and at times diametrically opposed cultures under Ptolemaic rule. Her work successfully positions Alexandrian poetry as part of the dynamic in which Greek and Egyptian worlds were bound to interact socially, politically, and imaginatively.The Alexandrian poets were image-makers for the Ptolemaic court, Seeing Double suggests; their poems were political in the broadest sense, serving neither to support nor to subvert the status quo, but to open up a space in which social and political values could be imaginatively re-created, examined, and critiqued. Seeing Double depicts Alexandrian poetry in its proper context-within the writing of foundation stories and within the imaginative redefinition of Egypt as "Two Lands"-no longer the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt, but of a shared Greek and Egyptian culture.Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.Hellenistic culture and society ;37.Greek poetry, HellenisticEgyptAlexandriaHistory and criticismEgyptian poetryEgyptAlexandriaHistory and criticismComparative literatureGreek and EgyptianComparative literatureEgyptian and GreekLanguage and cultureEgyptAlexandriaPoeticsHistoryTo 500Alexandria (Egypt)Intellectual lifealexandrian court.alexandrian poetry.alexandrian poets.ancient egypt.ancient greece.apollonius.argonautica.callimachus.egypt.egyptian culture.egyptian history.egyptian people.egyptian poetry.greek poetry.helen.hellenism.heracles.hiero of syracuse.hymns.literary criticism.literary theory.mythology.nonfiction.pharoah.poetics.poetry.political values.ptolemaic court.ptolemies.ptolemy philadelphus.regencies.royalty.rulers.theocritus.theogonies.Greek poetry, HellenisticHistory and criticism.Egyptian poetryHistory and criticism.Comparative literatureGreek and Egyptian.Comparative literatureEgyptian and Greek.Language and culturePoeticsHistory881/.09932Stephens Susan A154000MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821451503321Seeing double146125UNINA