Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria Volume 37

by Susan A. Stephens

When, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520229738
• ISBN13: 9780520229730
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"