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The gift of the Nile: hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander
The gift of the Nile: hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander
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Vasunia, Phiroze
Publisher
University of California Press
Publication Date
c2001
Language
English
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1. The tragic Egyptian
Splitting the Danaids
Egypt as locus for male fertility
Blackness and death
Marrying the Egyptians
Doubles in Helen
To die for
2. Space and otherness
The Pharaoh's space
Mapping Egypt
Symmetry and inversion
The traveler's eye
Egyptian space
3. In an antique land
Absolute history
The legacies of the past
Egypt and the Trojan War
Egyptian time
In an antique land
4. Writing Egyptian writing
Graphomania
The tyrant's writ
The Gods of writing
Plato's grammatology
Egyptian writing
Writing and control
5. Reading Isocrates' Busiris
Busiris the Egyptian
Reading Isocrates' speech
The paradox of parody
Isocrates, Plato, Athens
6. Plato's Egyptian story
A graphic history
From Isocrates to Crantor
Athens and Atlantis
7. Alexander's conquest and the force of tradition
Greeks and Macedonians
Homer and Alexander
Herodotus and Alexander
Aristotle and Alexander
The conquest of Egypt
Epilogue.
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Civilization
Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C
Egypt -- In literature
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C
Greek literature
Greek literature -- History and criticism
Historiography
Historiography -- Greece
History and criticism
In literature
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9780520228207
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