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Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world.The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.

Ptolemaic dynasty, --- Memphis (Extinct city) --- Memphis (Ville ancienne) --- Civilization. --- Civilisation --- Civilization --- Ptolemaic dynasty --- Ptolemaic dynasty,-305 B.C.-30 B.C. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- Alexandria. --- Aphrodite priests. --- Apis calves. --- Black Sea region. --- Darius III. --- Eudoxos of Knidos. --- Hellenomemphites. --- Herme. --- Jeremiah, prophet. --- Kallikrates of Samos. --- Kom el Nawa. --- Leptines. --- Lykopolis. --- Memphite nome. --- Menes. --- Nubia and Nubians. --- Octavian. --- Persians. --- Red Sea, ports. --- acropolis. --- agriculture. --- bakers. --- burial rites. --- cereals. --- citadel. --- coronations. --- dockyards. --- dykes. --- fertility rites. --- foreign communities. --- fortune-telling. --- garrison troops. --- gymnasium. --- imports. --- investment, capital. --- irrigation. --- jewelry. --- limestone. --- mobility, social. --- musicians, priestess. --- ostraka. --- patronage. --- philosophers. --- pilgrims. --- priests. --- quarters of the city. --- sacrifices. --- shipbuilding. --- stoneworking. --- terracotta. --- violence. --- Egypt --- Antiquities --- Ptolemaic dynasty, - 305-30 B.C