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Egyptian Things: Translating Egypt to Early Imperial Rome

Egyptian Things: Translating Egypt to Early Imperial Rome

Kelting, Edward William

Paperback

Literary CriticismAncient Rome

ISBN10: 0520402189
ISBN13: 9780520402188
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Nov 19 2024
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

After the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, Rome finally took control of Egypt. This occupation simultaneously facilitated and circumscribed the exchange of goods, people, and ideas along the paths carved across Rome's burgeoning empire. In this book, Edward Kelting sets out to recapture one of these systems of exchange: the vibrant literary tradition known as Aegyptiaca--or Egyptian things--in which culturally mixed authors wrote about Egypt for a Greek and Roman audience. These authors have been dismissed as not really Egyptian, and their contemporary popularity has been ignored. But as Kelting powerfully argues, this genre in fact constitutes a vibrant intellectual tradition, developed from heterogeneous influences but deeply engaged with Egypt's pharaonic past. In contrast to usual narratives of Roman domination, Kelting uncovers a complex project of political engagement and cultural translation in which Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all participated.

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