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6 X 10.Long New.P65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76551-0 - Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism Ian S. Moyer Index More information Index (References in bold are to figures.) Achaemenid Persians, 9, 37, 40, 52, 60, 61–62, annals, 115, 140 87, 93, 132, 135, 136, 141; see also Egypt: anthropology see Sahlins, M.; ethnography; Persian Domination (First and Second) Clifford, J. Artaxerxes I, 60, 69 Anubis, 174, 198, 200, 246 Artaxerxes III, 93, 136, 139, 171 Apion of Alexandria, 94 Cambyses, 60, 61, 62, 73 Apollo, 39, 142, 176, 185, 189, 194, 198 Cyrus, 61 temple on Delos, 142, 167 Darius I, 60, 61, 65, 73–74, 241, 242 Apollonios I (Egyptian priest on Delos), 157, 158, Darius III, 136 161, 162, 163, 180, 183, 186, 187, 189, 200, Xerxes, 72 284, 285 Africanus (Sextus Julius), 84, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, Apollonios II (Egyptian priest on Delos), 142–43, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 113, 133, 136 156–57, 158, 159, 160, 165, 174, 175, 176, 178, agency (in historiography on Greek–Egyptian 179, 180, 187–89, 191–92, 194, 195, 197, 200, relations), 1–2, 3–10, 38, 42–43, 47–51, 202, 203, 206–07, 278, 279, 284–86 82–83, 151–53 appropriation, cultural and intellectual, 3, 8–9, Alexander Romance, 10, 137–38 40, 46–47, 82, 100, 226–28, 246, 247–49, Alexander the Great, 1, 2, 11, 15–17, 18, 19, 20, 74, 262, 265, 267, 268–70, 273, 274, 279, 89, 99, 127, 140, 145, 146, 211 281 connected with Nectanebo, 138–39 Apries see Sa¨ıte dynasty in Egypt, 9–10, 260 Apuleius, 224, 249, 273, 280 pharaonic titulary, 87, 138 archaism, Late Egyptian, 37, 70–74, 107 tomb in Alexandria, 88, 91 aretalogy, 39, 143, 180, 181, 194, 206 Alexandria, 9, 17, 19, 21, 23–24, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, of Imhotep–Asclepius, 251 138, 144, 145, 149, 169, 184, 209, 212, 228, of Isis, 174, 181 230, 233, 249, 263, 287–88 of Sarapis on Delos see Delian Sarapis Rhakotis, 145, 148 aretalogy Sarapieion, 147, 150, 169, 170 Arsinoe see Ptolemaic dynasty alterity see representation Art of Eudoxus, 238–39 Amasis see Sa¨ıte dynasty Artaxerxes see Achaemenid Persians Amenhotep, son of Hapy, 250, 251 Asclepius, 165, 201, 289 in Manetho’s Aegyptiaca (Amenophis, son of Egyptian Imhotep, 210, 228, 243, 245, 248, Paapis), 122, 124, 133, 135 249, 250–52, 254, 262, 280; see also Imhotep Amenophis (pharaoh in Manetho’s Aegyptiaca), associations, religious, 156, 160, 201, 203 95, 106–07, 122–24, 125, 133, 136–37, 138–39 Assyrians, 121; see also Egypt: Assyrian invasions animals, sacred, 122–23, 124, 127, 138, 141, 170, of 271, 272 astrology and astronomy, 39, 213, 217–19, 220, Apis bull, 60, 123, 124, 127, 147, 163, 170, 176, 221, 228, 229, 231–32, 245, 246–47, 250, 253, 272 279, 293–97 340 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76551-0 - Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism Ian S. Moyer Index More information Index 341 botanical and medical astrology, 39, 208, 210, commands, royal, 165, 166, 171, 172, 173, 174 216–17, 230–31, 265 commoditization, 265–67 Greek–Egyptian exchanges, 236, 239 Contendings of Horus and Seth, 175, 177–79, 192; in Egyptian priestly milieux, 235–44, 250–51 see also Horus; Seth Mesopotamian traditions in Egypt, 237, 238, Coptos, 90 241–42 court, Ptolemaic, 30, 32, 37, 38, 40, 86, 87, 88, 89, Augustus, 215, 270 91, 97, 102, 103, 117, 140–41, 144, 148, 277 authenticity, 38, 152, 153, 164, 182, 195, 206, 207 Cromer, Lord, 14–15 Avaris, 120, 121, 122, 125, 136 cross-cultural interaction, models see appropriation; bilingualism; colonialism; Bagnall, R., 33, 100 diaspora; ethnography; hybridity; Baring, E. see Cromer, Lord representation; translation Bentresh Stela, 61, 71, 173 acculturation, 38, 152, 181, 193, 279 Bernal, M., 29, 50, 116 assimilation, 181, 206 Bevan, E., 19–20 de-Hellenization/Egyptianization, 16–17, 22 Bhabha, H., 25, 182 Hellenization, 12–13, 17, 25, 26, 27, 38, 98, 148, bilingualism, 1, 31–32, 139, 147, 162, 169, 170, 149–50, 181, 182, 193 234, 236, 252, 268 separatism, 26–27, 28–29, 32, 89, 150 Bocchoris, 53, 59, 133, 233 syncretism, 14, 27, 36, 38, 99, 144, 145–48, Book of the Dead, 56, 178, 246, 256, 257, 272 151–53, 182, 192, 194, 206–07 Book of Thoth, 224, 244, 260, 261 transactional process, 2, 35, 275, 281 Borgeaud, P., 150–51 Cumont, F., 14, 213–14, 217–18, 219–20, 293 Bouche-Leclercq,´ A., 14, 99 Curse of Artemisia, 147 Bryce, J., 15 Cyrus see Achaemenid Persians burial and funerary customs, Egyptian, 55, 70, 126, 256; see also Book of the Dead Daedalus, 58 Burke, E., 16 Danaus, 94, 112, 117, 122 Darius see Achaemenid Persians Cadmus, 111, 117 decrees, divine see commands, divine Callimachus, 184–85, 201 Deir el-Bahri, 250, 251 Cambyses see Achaemenid Persians Deir el-Medineh, 251 Canopus Decree, 91, 119, 141, 260, 261 Delian Sarapis aretalogy, 39, 142–43, 157–59, Carians in Egypt, 54, 55 194–95, 206, 278–79 Castaneda, C., 227, 268 allusions to Homer, 181–82, 185–92, 193 Certeau, M. de, 5–6, 274 and Hellenistic poetry, 184–85 Chaeremon, 137, 242, 269, 280 date, 156–57, 195 Chakrabarty, D., 34–35 divine commands in dreams, 165, 166, Chaosbeschreibung see literature, Egyptian 174–75 Charaxus, 56 genealogy, 161, 162, 164 chronicles, 84, 115, 139, 140 physical characteristics, 153–56, 157, 175–76, chronology see also synchronism 179–80, 206 Egyptian, 52, 63–68, 75, 78, 84–85, 95–96, 107, text and translation, 282–86 109, 111, 140 trial of Apollonios, 159–61, 175, 176–78, 179, Greek, 79–81, 108, 109–10, 111–12, 113, 140 195, 205–06 universal, 84–85, 95, 103, 107–08, 111, 112, Delos, 39, 142, 143, 153, 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 113–14, 140, 278 163, 164, 167–68, 180, 182, 185, 186, 187, 189, Cleopatra see Ptolemaic dynasty 190, 192, 193, 194, 206, 278, 285, 286 Clifford, J., 49 independence, 40, 165, 167–68, 196–97 colonialism, imperialism and scholarship on Sarapis temples (Sarapieia), 142, 143, 153, 154, Greek–Egyptian relations, 8, 14–25, 98, 99, 155, 165, 195–206, 207, 279 100–02, 114; see also post-colonial period; under Athenian control, 160, 168, 202, post-colonial critique 204–05 colonization, Greek narratives of, 116–18, 122 Demeter, 176, 201 commands, divine, 158, 165–71, 173, 174–75, 284, Demetrios I (Egyptian priest on Delos), 157, 158, 285 164, 176, 180, 183 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76551-0 - Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism Ian S. Moyer Index More information 342 Index Demetrios II (Egyptian priest on Delos), 160, Persian Domination (First), 56, 61, 68, 69, 70, 204–05 135, 241, 275 Demetrios III (Egyptian priest on Delos), 205 Persian Domination (Second), 62, 87, 89, 128, Democritus, 58 135, 136, 138, 139, 141, 174 Demotic Chronicle, 38, 128–30, 131–32, 132, 134, Ptolemaic, 1, 11, 12–13, 17, 18–21, 22, 23–24, 277 26, 27–28, 29–32, 37, 40, 86–91, 99, 100, Demotic Egyptian, 28, 31, 56, 119, 131, 171, 183, 126–27, 144–45, 146, 148–49, 150, 163, 232, 247, 252, 256, 260, 281 169–70, 174, 233–34, 238–41, 247, 267, 271, sources, 30, 31, 38, 60, 72, 73, 78, 108, 119–20, 273, 275, 277–78, 279; see also Alexandria; 121, 126, 128–30, 131–32, 133, 134, 137, 139, court, Ptolemaic; Ptolemaic dynasty 148, 162, 170, 171, 174, 178, 198, 224, 232–33, Roman, 39, 40, 93, 163, 208, 219, 225, 235–37, 235–37, 239, 241, 244–45, 250, 252–53, 259, 249–53, 254, 255, 269–73, 275 260, 261, 277, 293 Sa¨ıte Period, 40, 53–57, 58–59, 70–71; see also Dendera, 66, 89, 175, 235, 250, 257, 260 Sa¨ıte dynasty Deucalion, 111, 112, 113 Egypt and Egyptians, images in Greek literature, dialogical history, 2, 35, 37, 40, 274, 275, 277, 5, 46, 78–79 281 antiquity, 3, 37, 42, 43, 46, 63 diaspora, 39, 40, 187, 207, 275, 278 primordiality, 3–4, 46, 47 Dillery, J., 97, 134 strangeness, 1, 3 Diodorus Siculus, 58, 59, 72, 74, 104, 105, 107, wealth, 53 110, 111, 113, 116, 117, 136, 139, 179, 242, 256, wisdom, 39, 42, 52–53, 58–59, 61, 63, 208, 277 224–26, 269, 273 Dionysus, 80, 132, 147, 201 Egyptians abroad, 61–62, 161–62; see also Apion divination, 208, 246, 247, 249, 252, 255, 256; see of Alexandria; Chaeremon; Harnouphis; also astrology and astronomy; prophecy Horus of Kasion; Ouaphres, son of Horus; and revelation Taessa; Thaesis; Thermouthris; dreams, 61, 137, 145, 151, 158, 161, 165, 166, Udjahorresne 168–69, 170, 171, 172–73, 197, 201, 250, 278, Elephantine, 61, 135, 172, 173, 215 288 Engelmann, H., 179, 180, 182, 183, 194 lekanomancy, 252, 280, 288 enktesis (in Greek law, permission to own land), portents and omens, 189, 190, 233, 235, 237, 159, 161 241 Eretria, 161, 164 Djed-pillar, 171, 175–76 Esna, 175, 235 Djedhor of Tanis, 89 Ethiopia, 80, 123, 124, 136 Djedhor the Lion, 89 ethnicity, 30, 31, 111, 161, 162, 179, 199–200, 207, Djedhor the Savior, 89, 166, 174 235, 270 Djedkhonsefankh, 67, 68 ethnography, 3–4, 5–6, 9, 37, 43, 44–45, 46–47, Djoser, 70, 72, 124, 128, 173 48–51, 83, 92, 96, 105, 117, 118, 226, 277 Dream of Nectanebo, 31, 134, 137–38, 170–71 Eudoxus of Cnidus, 238 dreams see divination Eusebius, 92, 93, 95, 96, 108, 112, 278 Droysen, J.
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