{"product_id":"seeing-double-intercultural-poetics-in-ptolemaic-alexandria-volume-37-hardcover-1","title":"Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria Volume 37 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan A. Stephens\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Alexandrian poets were image-makers for the Ptolemaic court, \u003ci\u003eSeeing Double \u003c\/i\u003esuggests; 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. \u003ci\u003eSeeing Double \u003c\/i\u003edepicts 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Stephens is interested in how the poetry of Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius reflects the Greek engagement with Egypt, and in particular with the traditions of Egyptian kingship and mythology. The exciting rediscovery through marine archaeology of Ptolemaic Alexandria means that there is currently great interest in the nature of Alexandrian culture, especially in how Greek and Egyptian elements were mixed. Stephens brings to notice important but generally neglected Greek texts (Hecataeus of Abdera, the 'Alexander Romance') and much material previously known only to Egyptologists. . . . Modern writing about colonialism is powerfully applied to the Hellenistic situation. This book will attract wide interest, and help in the gradual process of changing perceptions about the cultural life of Alexandria.--Richard Hunter, author of \u003ci\u003eTheocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan Stephens' \u003ci\u003eSeeing Double\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book ever that explores comprehensively and persuasively how, in the political, social and cultural environment of Ptolemaic Egypt, the Alexandrian renewal of classical poetry leads to a new poetry. . . . In Stephens' view, the poetical dialogue between the Alexandrian poets, their intertextuality and the differences in their approaches and reactions to the colonial situation resolve the emerging duality of Greek and Egyptian cultures in a deeper intellectual unity that responds to, and reflects, the political reality.--Ludwig Koenen, author of \u003ci\u003eEine agonistische Inschrift aus Ägypten und frühptolemäische Königsfeste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis quietly daring research sets a new standard for the interpretation of poetry in a cultural, and most importantly in a bi-cultural, context. Stephens' exploration of Alexandrian poetry as a contact zone is a successful example of how literary interpretation can be fertilized by discontent about traditional Classics.--Alessandro Barchiesi, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpeaking Volumes: Narrative and Intertext in Ovid and Other Latin Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant mastery and intersection of comparative history of literature and of theories of intertextuality and intercultural contacts make of this book a most profitable text for a larger readership than classical scholars.--Marco Fantuzzi, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eMuse e Modelli: la poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Stephens is interested in how the poetry of Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius reflects the Greek engagement with Egypt, and in particular with the traditions of Egyptian kingship and mythology. The exciting rediscovery through marine archaeology of Ptolemaic Alexandria means that there is currently great interest in the nature of Alexandrian culture, especially in how Greek and Egyptian elements were mixed. Stephens brings to notice important but generally neglected Greek texts (Hecataeus of Abdera, the 'Alexander Romance') and much material previously known only to Egyptologists. . . . Modern writing about colonialism is powerfully applied to the Hellenistic situation. This book will attract wide interest, and help in the gradual process of changing perceptions about the cultural life of Alexandria.--Richard Hunter, author of \u003ci\u003eTheocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Susan Stephens' \u003ci\u003eSeeing Double\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book ever that explores comprehensively and persuasively how, in the political, social and cultural environment of Ptolemaic Egypt, the Alexandrian renewal of classical poetry leads to a new poetry. . . . In Stephens' view, the poetical dialogue between the Alexandrian poets, their intertextuality and the differences in their approaches and reactions to the colonial situation resolve the emerging duality of Greek and Egyptian cultures in a deeper intellectual unity that responds to, and reflects, the political reality.\"--Ludwig Koenen, author of \u003ci\u003eEine agonistische Inschrift aus Ägypten und frühptolemäische Königsfeste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This quietly daring research sets a new standard for the interpretation of poetry in a cultural, and most importantly in a bi-cultural, context. Stephens' exploration of Alexandrian poetry as a contact zone is a successful example of how literary interpretation can be fertilized by discontent about traditional Classics.\"--Alessandro Barchiesi, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpeaking Volumes: Narrative and Intertext in Ovid and Other Latin Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant mastery and intersection of comparative history of literature and of theories of intertextuality and intercultural contacts make of this book a most profitable text for a larger readership than classical scholars.\"--Marco Fantuzzi, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eMuse e Modelli: la poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan A. Stephens\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Classics at Stanford University, author of \u003ci\u003eYale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library II \u003c\/i\u003e(1985), and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAncient Greek Novels: The Fragments \u003c\/i\u003e(1995) and \u003ci\u003eDidymus in Demosthenem: Commenta \u003c\/i\u003e(1985).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 311\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 9.2 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53753913180467,"sku":"9780520229730","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eL3_TEsY8S9780520229730_fc36f2f2-c3f1-4a97-be2e-e4f71d77e105.webp?v=1785295719","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/seeing-double-intercultural-poetics-in-ptolemaic-alexandria-volume-37-hardcover-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}