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AHST 222 /322 Lecture 18:
Hellenisation II

Modern works:

  • A.B. Lloyd, “Nationalist Propaganda in Ptolemaic Egypt”.
  • A. Kuhrt & S. Sherwin-White, Hellenism in the Greek East: the interaction of Greek and non-Greek civilisations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander,
  •     From Samarkand to Sardis: a new Approach to the Seleucid Empire.
  • A. Kuhrt, “The Seleucid Kings and Babylonia”, in P. Bilde, et. al., eds., Aspects of Hellenistic Kingship, Aarhus, 1996, p. 50.
  • S.M. Burstein, The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of Ipsus to the Death of Kleopatra VII, Docs. 49, 50.
  • A.E. Samuels, From Athens to Alexandria: Hellenism and Social Goals in Ptolemaic Egypt, and The Shifting Sands of History: interpretations of Ptolemaic Egypt.
  • N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt, Oxford, 1986.
  • D.J. Thompson, “Literacy and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt”, in A.K. Bowman & G. Woolf, eds., Literacy and Power in the Ancient World, pp. 67-83, esp. 75ff., and “Conquest and Literacy: the Case of Ptolemaic Egypt”, in D. Keller-Cohen, ed., Literacy: Interdisciplinary Conversations, New Jersey, 1994, pp. 71-89.
  • Javier Teixidor, The Pagan God
  • Terminology:
  • Hellenizo, /Medizo
  • katoikia/i politeuma/ta
  • polis /eis
  • The “Septuagint” (LXX).

    People and Places:

  • The Seleucid native governor of Uruk, Anu-uballit, formally renamed Nikarchos
  • The Fayoum Oasis
  • The Tobiad correspondence, c.250
  • Ai Khnoum
  • Clearchus of Soli, pupil of Aristotle
  • Berossus: c. 290 B.C., Babyloniaka
  • Manetho: c. 280 B.C., under Ptolemies Soter and Philadelphus
  • Nectanebo