Memphis Under the Ptolemies : : Second Edition / / Dorothy J. Thompson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Thompson, Dorothy J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 8 halftones. 6 line illus. 5 tables. 4 maps.

Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world.The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Prefaces -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Transliteration -- Chapter 1. The Second City -- Chapter 2. Economic Life in Memphis -- Chapter 3. Ethnic Minorities -- Chapter 4. Ptolemies and Temples -- Chapter 5. The Undertakers -- Chapter 6. Apis and Other Cults -- Chapter 7. Between Two Worlds: The Sarapieion -- Chapter 8. Roman Memphis: An Epilogue -- Appendixes A - D -- Bibliography -- Index