Author: Günther Hölbl
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: empire, ptolemaic, history
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2000-11-07
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415201454
ISBN-13: 9780415201452

Ptolemaic rule in Egypt began with the death of Alexander in 323 BC and continued until the tragic deaths of Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BC. Dr. Holbl provides an integrated and compelling narrative of the political and religious history of these three centuries. He writes as an authority both on Egyptian religion and archaeology and on the demotic texts, as well as on the Greek sources. His work commands the whole field of Ptolemaic history and encompasses the most up-to-date findings of scholars in several fields and has occasioned many revisions of long held scholarly views.

Author: aE. Vassilika
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Keywords: analecta, lovaniensia, orientalia, philae, ptolemaic
Number of Pages: 406
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: $138.00
ISBN-10: 9068312006
ISBN-13: 9789068312003

This book examines the Ptolemaic temples of the island of Philae, in Upper Egypt. The temples were modified and extended during the course of the Ptolemaic dynasty and this detailed study presents the first full publication of the architectural developme

Author: Susan A. Stephens
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: ptolemaic, alexandria, poetics, intercultural, double, seeing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-01-06
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0520229738
ISBN-13: 9780520229730

When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius proved instrumental in bridging the distance between the two distinct and at times diametrically opposed cultures under Ptolemaic rule. Her work successfully positions Alexandrian poetry as part of the dynamic in which Greek and Egyptian worlds were bound to interact socially, p

Author: James M. Lattis
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: ptolemaic, cosmology, collapse, clavius, galileo, christoph, copernicus
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 1995-12-12
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0226469298
ISBN-13: 9780226469294

Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo’s famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution.Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books—the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi,

Author: R.A. Hazzard
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: phoenix, supplementary, volume, propaganda, ptolemaic, monarchy, studies, imagination
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2000-04-28
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0802043135
ISBN-13: 9780802043139

Scholars have long known that the Egyptian Ptolemaic monarchy underwent a transformation between 323 and 30 BC. The queens of that dynasty started as subordinates of the kings but ended as their superiors. Exactly when and how this change occurred has proven problematic for modern scholars. R.A. Hazzard argues that this change was put in motion by Ptolemy II, who glorified his sister ArsinoT and made acceptable a civilian style of kingship based on piety towards his real and mythical ancestors. Ptolemy’s support and elevation of his sister inspired the queens of the line to assert th

Author: Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher: Brill Academic Pu
Keywords: studies, classical, tradition, columbia, egypt, ptolemaic, possessions, outside, administration
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9004044906
ISBN-13: 9789004044906

Author: Galileo Galilei
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: copernican, second, revised, ptolemaic, systems, concerning, chief, world, dialogue
Number of Pages: 495
Published: 1962-08-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520004507
ISBN-13: 9780520004504

This 1967 edition of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a revision of a 1953 edition. It includes a foreword by Albert Einstein, which is presented in en face German and English versions. The translation itself is based on the definitive National Edition prepared under the direction of Antonio Favaro and published at Florence in 1897. The material specifically added to the text by Galileo himself after publication of the first edition (1632) has been included as well. In addition, the margins of the book include translations of Galileo’s o