Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The main focus of this book is the study of Abraham Ibn Ezra's (1089-1167) scientific thought within the historical and cultural context of his times. His scientific contribution may be understood as the very embodiment of 'the rise of medieval Hebrew science', a process in which Jewish scholars gradually adopted the holy tongue as a vehicle to express secular and scientific ideas. The first part provides a comprehensive picture of Ibn Ezra's scientific corpus. The second part studies his linguistic strategy. The third and fourth parts study Ibn Ezra's introductions to his scientific treatises and the fifth part is devoted to studying four 'encounters' with Claudius Ptolemy, the main scientific character featuring in Ibn Ezra's literary work.

Science --- Jewish astrology --- Judaism and science --- history --- History --- Ptolemy,

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus-at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh-is the only extended poetic tribute to this extraordinary ruler that survives. Combining the Greek text, an English translation, a full line-by-line commentary, and extensive introductory studies of the poem's historical and literary context, this volume also offers a wide-ranging and far-reaching consideration of the workings and representation of poetic patronage in the Ptolemaic age. In particular, the book explores the subtle and complex links among Theocritus's poem, modes of praise drawn from both Greek and Egyptian traditions, and the subsequent flowering of Latin poetry in the Augustan age. As the first detailed account of this important poem to show how Theocritus might have drawn on the pharaonic traditions of Egypt as well as earlier Greek poetry, this book affords unique insight into how praise poetry for Ptolemy and his wife may have helped to negotiate the adaptation of Greek culture that changed conditions of the new Hellenistic world. Invaluable for its clear translation and its commentary on genre, dialect, diction, and historical reference in relation to Theocritus's Encomium, the book is also significant for what it reveals about the poem's cultural and social contexts and about Theocritus' devices for addressing his several readerships. COVER IMAGE: The image on the front cover of this book is incorrectly identified on the jacket flap. The correct caption is: Gold Oktadrachm depicting Ptolemy II and Arsinoe (mid-third century BCE; by permission of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Ptolemy II Philadelphus, King of Egypt --- Theocritus --- Ptolemy --- Ptolemaeus --- Ptolemy II Philadelphus --- Poetry --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- alexandria. --- ancient egypt. --- ancient greece. --- aristophanes. --- arsinoe ii. --- art. --- augustan poetry. --- classical studies. --- clouds. --- egypt. --- encomium. --- genre studies. --- greek culture. --- greek poetry. --- greek world. --- hellenism. --- hellenistic poetry. --- hellenistic world. --- heracles. --- homeric hymn. --- hymn. --- king. --- latin poetry. --- literary criticism. --- monarchy. --- mythology. --- patronage. --- patrons. --- pharaoh. --- pharaonic traditions. --- philadelphus. --- pithom stele. --- poetic meter. --- poetic tribute. --- poetry. --- poets. --- praise. --- ptolemaic dynasty. --- ptolemy ii. --- reign. --- ruler. --- theocritus. --- third century. --- zeus.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Vision --- Visual perception --- Perception visuelle --- Philosophy --- History --- Philosophie --- Histoire --- Optics --- Perspective. --- Visual perception. --- Optics and art. --- Art, Ancient. --- History. --- Ptolemy, --- Alhazen, --- Philosophy. --- Optics - History. --- Optique --- Philosophie. --- Histoire.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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, politically, and imaginatively.The Alexandrian poets were image-makers for the Ptolemaic court, Seeing Double suggests; their poems were political in the broadest sense, serving neither to support nor to subvert the status quo, but to open up a space in which social and political values could be imaginatively re-created, examined, and critiqued. Seeing Double depicts Alexandrian poetry in its proper context-within the writing of foundation stories and within the imaginative redefinition of Egypt as "Two Lands"-no longer the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt, but of a shared Greek and Egyptian culture.

Comparative literature --- Egyptian poetry --- Greek poetry, Hellenistic --- Language and culture --- Poetics --- Egyptian and Greek. --- Greek and Egyptian. --- History and criticism. --- History --- -Greek poetry, Hellenistic --- -Language and culture --- -Literature, Comparative --- -Poetics --- -Poetry --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Hellenistic Greek poetry --- Greek literature, Hellenistic --- Egyptian literature --- History and criticism --- Egyptian and Greek --- Greek and Egyptian --- -Technique --- Ptolemaic dynasty --- Alexandria (Egypt) --- -Intellectual life --- Poésie grecque hellénistique --- -Poésie égyptienne --- Littérature comparée --- Langage et culture --- Histoire et critique --- Grecque et égyptienne --- Egyptienne et grecque --- Ptolemaic dynasty, --- Alexandrie (Egypte) --- Intellectual life. --- Vie intellectuelle --- Iskandarīyah (Egypt) --- Alexandrie (Egypt) --- Aleksandriyah (Egypt) --- Alessandria (Egypt) --- Alexandreia (Egypt) --- Aleksandria (Egypt) --- Alexantreia (Egypt) --- Alesandriʼa (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (مصر) --- اسكندرية (Egypt) --- Poetry --- Technique --- Ptolemies, --- alexandrian court. --- alexandrian poetry. --- alexandrian poets. --- ancient egypt. --- ancient greece. --- apollonius. --- argonautica. --- callimachus. --- egypt. --- egyptian culture. --- egyptian history. --- egyptian people. --- egyptian poetry. --- greek poetry. --- helen. --- hellenism. --- heracles. --- hiero of syracuse. --- hymns. --- literary criticism. --- literary theory. --- mythology. --- nonfiction. --- pharoah. --- poetics. --- poetry. --- political values. --- ptolemaic court. --- ptolemies. --- ptolemy philadelphus. --- regencies. --- royalty. --- rulers. --- theocritus. --- theogonies.