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Book Europe  Hellas and Egypt

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  • Author : European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting
  • Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Europe Hellas and Egypt written by European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine papers are from a session of the EAA 8th Conference, held in Thessalonike in 2002, which aimed to explore Europe's fascination with Egypt, as reflected in museum collections across the continent, the history of Egyptology and new archaeological evidence for contacts between Europe and Egypt during Late Antiquity.

Book The Greek Exodus from Egypt

Download or read book The Greek Exodus from Egypt written by Angelos Dalachanis and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, Greeks comprised one of the largest and most influential minority groups in Egyptian society, yet barely two thousand remain there today. This painstakingly researched book explains how Egypt’s once-robust Greek population dwindled to virtually nothing, beginning with the abolition of foreigners’ privileges in 1937 and culminating in the nationalist revolution of 1952. It reconstructs the delicate sociopolitical circumstances that Greeks had to navigate during this period, providing a multifaceted account of demographic decline that arose from both large structural factors as well as the decisions of countless individuals.

Book Egypt  Greece  and Rome

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  • Author : Charles Freeman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0199263647
  • Pages : 734 pages

Download or read book Egypt Greece and Rome written by Charles Freeman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Greco Egyptian Interactions

Download or read book Greco Egyptian Interactions written by Ian Rutherford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contact and interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture can be traced in different forms over more than a millennium: from the sixth century BC, when Greeks visited Egypt for the sake of tourism or trade, through to the Hellenistic period, when Egypt was ruled by the Macedonian-Greek Ptolemaic dynasty who encouraged a mixed Greek and Egyptian culture, and even more intensely in the Roman Empire, when Egypt came to be increasingly seen as a place of wonder and a source of magic and mystery. This volume addresses the historical interaction between the ancient Greek and Egyptian civilizations in these periods, focusing in particular on literature and textual culture. Comprising fourteen chapters written by experts in the field, each contribution examines such cultural interaction in some form, whether influence between the two cultures, or the emergence of bicultural and mixed phenomena within Egypt. A number of the chapters draw on newly discovered Egyptian texts, such as the Book of Thoth and the Book of the Temple, and among the wide range of topics covered are religion (such as prophecy, hymns, and magic), philosophy, historiography, romance, and translation.

Book Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism

Download or read book Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism written by Ian S. Moyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of studies, Ian Moyer explores the ancient history and modern historiography of relations between Egypt and Greece from the fifth century BCE to the early Roman empire. Beginning with Herodotus, he analyzes key encounters between Greeks and Egyptian priests, the bearers of Egypt's ancient traditions. Four moments unfold as rich micro-histories of cross-cultural interaction: Herodotus' interviews with priests at Thebes; Manetho's composition of an Egyptian history in Greek; the struggles of Egyptian priests on Delos; and a Greek physician's quest for magic in Egypt. In writing these histories, the author moves beyond Orientalizing representations of the Other and colonial metanarratives of the civilizing process to reveal interactions between Greeks and Egyptians as transactional processes in which the traditions, discourses and pragmatic interests of both sides shaped the outcome. The result is a dialogical history of cultural and intellectual exchanges between the great civilizations of Greece and Egypt.

Book Notes of a Tour Through Turkey  Greece  Egypt and Arabia Petraea  to the Holy Land

Download or read book Notes of a Tour Through Turkey Greece Egypt and Arabia Petraea to the Holy Land written by Edward Joy Morris and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Greek Revolution

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  • Author : Mark Mazower
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2022-11-22
  • ISBN : 0143110934
  • Pages : 625 pages

Download or read book The Greek Revolution written by Mark Mazower and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence—the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byron, Europe’s first nationalist uprising, and the beginning of the downward spiral of the Ottoman Empire—published two hundred years after its outbreak As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it as Europeans and Americans embraced the idea that the heirs to ancient Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, were fighting for their freedom against the proverbial Eastern despot, the Turkish sultan. This was Christianity versus Islam, now given urgency by new ideas about the nation-state and democracy that were shaking up the old order. Lord Byron is only the most famous of the combatants who went to Greece to fight and die—along with many more who followed events passionately and supported the cause through art, music, and humanitarian aid. To many who did go, it was a rude awakening to find that the Greeks were a far cry from their illustrious forebears, and were often hard to tell apart from the Ottomans. Mazower does full justice to the realities on the ground as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion, and a fraying and distracted Ottoman leadership first missed the plot and then overreacted disastrously. He shows how and why ethnic cleansing commenced almost immediately on both sides. By the time the dust settled, Greece was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory for a completely new kind of politics—international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in sentiment, and radical in its goals. It was here on the very edge of Europe that the first successful revolution took place in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, transforming diplomatic norms and the direction of European politics forever, and inaugurating a new world of nation-states, the world in which we still live.

Book Ancient Egypt and Antique Europe

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  • Author : European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting
  • Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Ancient Egypt and Antique Europe written by European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine papers are taken from a session at the EAA conference held in Esslington in 2001 which dealt with themes of interest to both the Egyptological community and to European archaeologists alike. The contributors deal with a range of subjects: recent Russian and Hellenic investigations in Egypt; the history of European Egyptology; political, cultural and economic contacts between Europe and Egypt in Dynastic, Hellenic-Roman and early Christian periods; links between ancient populations of Europe and Egypt drawing on anthropological data.

Book House documents

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Egypt

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  • Author : Dan Richardson
  • Publisher : Rough Guides
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781843530503
  • Pages : 892 pages

Download or read book Egypt written by Dan Richardson and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides practical advice on planning a trip to Egypt; describes points of interest in each section of the country; and includes information on restaurants, nightspots, shops, and lodging.

Book The Gift of the Nile

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  • Author : Phiroze Vasunia
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2001-12-04
  • ISBN : 0520228200
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book The Gift of the Nile written by Phiroze Vasunia and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What the ancient Greeks thought and believed about Egypt and what this tells us about them.

Book Modern Greece

Download or read book Modern Greece written by Keith R Legg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear, balanced book explores the dilemma of Greece, the font of European civilization. Despite its classical past and EU membership, Greece has been unable to escape the limbo of being nearly developed. Illuminating the impact of borrowed western institutions on Greeces traditional culture, the authors analyze the paralyzing consequences: a political process dependent on personal relations and a civil society dominated by a highly centralized bureaucracy. State dominance, Legg and Roberts argue, has turned politics primarily into a struggle for office. This emphasis on political conflict has allowed politicians and their supporters to employ emotional nationalist rhetoric to flout democratic rules and to avoid genuine issues. Concluding that the Greek political systems nature precludes real reform, the authors show how EU opportunities for both economic and political reform have been largely lost. Unfortunately, the aspects of Greeces nearly developed status are mirrored in eastern European states with similar pasts. Indeed, the authors warn that the Greece of today may be the future of many of its neighbors. }This clear, balanced book explores the dilemma of Greece, the font of European civilization. Despite its classical past and EU membership, Greece has been unable to escape the limbo of being nearly developed. Illuminating the impact of borrowed western institutions on Greeces traditional culture, the authors analyze the paralyzing consequences: a political process dependent on personal relations and a civil society dominated by a highly centralized bureaucracy. State dominance, Legg and Roberts argue, has turned politics primarily into a struggle for office. This emphasis on political conflict has allowed politicians and their supporters to employ emotional nationalist rhetoric to flout democratic rules and to avoid genuine issues. Concluding that the Greek political systems nature precludes real reform, the authors show how EU opportunities for both economic and political reform have been largely lost. Unfortunately, the aspects of Greeces nearly developed status are mirrored in eastern European states with similar pasts. Indeed, the authors warn that the Greece of today may be the future of many of its neighbors.

Book The Encyclop  dia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environment and Religion in Ancient and Coptic Egypt  Sensing the Cosmos through the Eyes of the Divine

Download or read book Environment and Religion in Ancient and Coptic Egypt Sensing the Cosmos through the Eyes of the Divine written by Alicia Maravelia and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a conference held in Athens in 2017, this volume presents 34 fresh and original papers (plus 2 abstracts) on ancient Egyptian religion, environment and the cosmos. Papers connect many interdisciplinary approaches including Egyptology, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, geography, botany, zoology, ornithology, theology and history.

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Economist

Download or read book The Economist written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: