LEADER 05251nam 2201225 a 450 001 9910780378103321 005 20230617011708.0 010 $a9786612356674 010 $a0-520-92738-9 010 $a1-282-35667-4 010 $a1-59734-889-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520927384 035 $a(CKB)111087027178598 035 $a(EBL)223170 035 $a(OCoLC)1087043318 035 $a(OCoLC)475927188 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000243397 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217961 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243397 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10341411 035 $a(PQKB)10465309 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223170 035 $a(OCoLC)52862180 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30763 035 $a(DE-B1597)521027 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520927384 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223170 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10051173 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235667 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027178598 100 $a20020514d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSeeing double$b[electronic resource] $eintercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria /$fSusan A. Stephens 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 225 1 $aHellenistic culture and society ;$v37 225 1 $aThe Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-22973-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Conceptualizing Egypt --$t2. Callimachean Theogonies --$t3. Theocritean Regencies --$t4. Apollonian Cosmologies --$t5. The Two Lands --$tSelect Bibliography --$tIndex of Passages Cited --$tIndex 330 $aWhen, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius proved instrumental in bridging the distance between the two distinct and at times diametrically opposed cultures under Ptolemaic rule. Her work successfully positions Alexandrian poetry as part of the dynamic in which Greek and Egyptian worlds were bound to interact socially, politically, and imaginatively.The Alexandrian poets were image-makers for the Ptolemaic court, Seeing Double suggests; their poems were political in the broadest sense, serving neither to support nor to subvert the status quo, but to open up a space in which social and political values could be imaginatively re-created, examined, and critiqued. Seeing Double depicts Alexandrian poetry in its proper context-within the writing of foundation stories and within the imaginative redefinition of Egypt as "Two Lands"-no longer the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt, but of a shared Greek and Egyptian culture. 410 0$aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. 410 0$aHellenistic culture and society ;$v37. 606 $aGreek poetry, Hellenistic$zEgypt$zAlexandria$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEgyptian poetry$zEgypt$zAlexandria$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComparative literature$xGreek and Egyptian 606 $aComparative literature$xEgyptian and Greek 606 $aLanguage and culture$zEgypt$zAlexandria 606 $aPoetics$xHistory$yTo 500 607 $aAlexandria (Egypt)$xIntellectual life 610 $aalexandrian court. 610 $aalexandrian poetry. 610 $aalexandrian poets. 610 $aancient egypt. 610 $aancient greece. 610 $aapollonius. 610 $aargonautica. 610 $acallimachus. 610 $aegypt. 610 $aegyptian culture. 610 $aegyptian history. 610 $aegyptian people. 610 $aegyptian poetry. 610 $agreek poetry. 610 $ahelen. 610 $ahellenism. 610 $aheracles. 610 $ahiero of syracuse. 610 $ahymns. 610 $aliterary criticism. 610 $aliterary theory. 610 $amythology. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $apharoah. 610 $apoetics. 610 $apoetry. 610 $apolitical values. 610 $aptolemaic court. 610 $aptolemies. 610 $aptolemy philadelphus. 610 $aregencies. 610 $aroyalty. 610 $arulers. 610 $atheocritus. 610 $atheogonies. 615 0$aGreek poetry, Hellenistic$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEgyptian poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComparative literature$xGreek and Egyptian. 615 0$aComparative literature$xEgyptian and Greek. 615 0$aLanguage and culture 615 0$aPoetics$xHistory 676 $a881/.09932 700 $aStephens$b Susan A$0154000 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780378103321 996 $aSeeing double$9146125 997 $aUNINA