Beyond the Nile : Egypt and the classical world /

Beyond the Nile : Egypt and the classical world / Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, Sara E. Cole, editors. - xv, 344 pages.

"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from March 27 to September 9, 2018"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-334) and index.

Memphis, Minos, and Mycenae: Bronze Age contact between Egypt and the Aegean / Jorrit M. Kelder, Sara E. Cole, Eric H. Cline -- Contact points: Avaris and Pi-Ramesse / Manfred Bietak and Constance von Rüden -- In the midst of the "Great Green": Egypto-Aegean trade and exchange / Jorrit M. Kelder and Eric H. Cline -- The Sea Peoples / Eric H. Cline -- The Greeks in Egypt: renewed contact in the Iron Age / Alexandra Villing -- Contact points: Memphis, Naukratis, and the Greek East / Henry P. Colburn -- The coming of Alexander and Egypt under Ptolemaic rule / Alan B. Lloyd -- Contact points: Alexandria, a Hellenistic capital in Egypt / Thomas Landvatter -- King and pharaoh: religious encounters and the ruler cult in Ptolemaic Egypt / Stefano Caneva -- "Portrait" sculpture in Ptolemaic Egypt / Robert Steven Bianchi -- Multiculturalism in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: language contact through evidence from papyri and inscriptions / Luigi Prada -- Before the empire: Egypt and Rome / Rolf Schneider -- Contact points: the image and reception of Egypt and its gods in Rome / John Pollini -- Art and identity in Roman Egypt / Christina Riggs -- Traveling gods: the cults of Isis in the Roman Empire / Laurent Bricault -- Egypt and/in/as Rome / Miguel John Versluys.

9781606065518 (hardcover)


Art, Classical
Art objects, Egyptian
Art objects, Greek
Art objects, Roman
Civilization, Classical
Civilization, Greco-Roman
The Arts

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