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Greco-Egyptian Interactions Literature, Translation, and – Culture, 500 300 BCE CE Edited by IAN RUTHERFORD 1 GRECO-EGYPTIAN INTERACTIONS 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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Acknowledgements Many of the papers in this volume had their origin in a conference at the University of Reading, Graeco-Aegyptiaca/Aegypto-Graeca: Interactions between Greece and Egypt 700 BCE–300 CE. I’d like to thank the British Academy for supporting that with a conference grant and the University of Reading for providing facilities and general support. Some of the editing in the final stages in 2013–14 wasdonewhenIwasavisitingresearchscholarattheInstituteforthe StudyoftheAncientWorldinNewYork.Finally,manythankstothe SacklerLibraryinOxfordforfacilitatingresearch. Contents ListofFigures ix ListofContributors xi 1. IanRutherford,‘Introduction:Interactionand TranslationbetweenGreekLiteratureandEgypt’ 1 2. SusanStephens,‘Plato’sEgyptianRepublic’ 41 3. AlexandravonLieven,‘TranslatingGods,Interpreting Gods:OntheMechanismsbehindtheInterpretatio GraecaofEgyptianGods’ 61 4. IanRutherford,‘TheEarliestCross-CulturalReception ofHomer?TheInaros-NarrativesofGreco-RomanEgypt’ 83 5. JohnDillery,‘LiteraryInteractionbetweenGreece andEgypt:ManethoandSynchronism’ 107 6. LloydLlewellyn-JonesandStephanieWinder,‘The HathoricModelofQueenshipinEarlyPtolemaicEgypt: TheCaseofBerenike’sLock’ 139 7. IvanA.Ladynin,‘VirtualHistoryEgyptianStyle: TheIsolationistConceptofthePotter’sOracleandits Alternative’ 163 8. NikolaosLazaridis,‘DifferentParallels,Different Interpretations.ReadingParallelsbetweenAncient EgyptianandGreekWorksofLiterature’ 187 9. IanMoyer,‘IsidorusattheGatesoftheTemple’ 209 10. SteveVinson,‘GoodandBadWomeninEgyptian andGreekFiction’ 245 11. JoachimQuack,‘TranslatingtheRealitiesofCult: TheCaseoftheBookoftheTemple’ 267 viii Contents 12. GaëlleTallet,‘MandulisApollo’sDiplomacy:Echoesof GreekCultureandHellenismatTalmis(Nubia) intheRomanPeriod’ 287 13. RichardJasnow,‘“BetweenTwoWaters”:TheBookof ThothandtheProblemofGreco-EgyptianInteraction’ 317 14. GideonBohak,‘TheDiffusionoftheGreco-Egyptian MagicalTraditioninLateAntiquity’ 357 Index 383 List of Figures 6.1 PtolemyIIIandBerenikeIIreceivetheirroyaltitlesand symbolsofperpetualrule,allcarefullyrecordedbythegod Khonsu.Thepharaohwearsthedoublecrownwhilethequeen wearsthedistinctiveHathorheaddressofsundisk,horns, andplumes.RelieffromtheEuergetesGate,temple ofKarnak.Photograph:LloydLlewellyn-Jones. 154 6.2 BerenikeII(facemutilatedprobablyintheearlyChristian period)wearsthedistinctivecrownofthegoddessHathor. DetailofarelieffromtheEuergetesGate,temple ofKarnak.Photograph:LloydLlewellyn-Jones. 154 6.3 PtolemygivesnujarsandBerenikeIIofferslotusgarlands tothegodKhonsu,accompaniedbehindthethronebyHet Heret,afertilityaspectofHathor.RelieffromtheEuergetes Gate,templeofKarnak.Photograph:LloydLlewellyn-Jones. 155 8.1 Factorsinfluencingliteraryinteractionandtheevaluation ofliteraryparallels 189 9.1 PlacementoftheHymnsofIsidorusatthegatesofthe templeatMedinetMadi(planadaptedfromVogliano1937) 213 11.1 PSIInv.I89,firstfragmentPSIInv.I89,secondfragment, PSIInv.I89,thirdfragmentP.Carlsberg312 272 12.1 CopiesofGreekinscriptionsfromthetempleofMandulis byLepsiusandGauthier 289 12.2 ‘Mandulisthegreatgod(netjeraa)’,depictedasayoung adultandcrownedwiththeatefandthehemhemcrowns ©PrFrançoiseDunand 297 12.3 TheUnderworldisdividedintosixareacaverns(qereret) ©Hornung(1999) 299 12.4 Mandulisdepictedasachildsittingonalotusflower ©PrFrançoiseDunand 301 12.5 Mandulisthetriplegod©PrFrançoiseDunand 305 12.6 MandulisasasolarGreekgodsittingonalotus ©PrFrançoiseDunand 307 12.7 HorusinanoracularstatuefromtheEgyptianMuseum inCairo 308
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