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CONTENTS Preface ................................................................. ix Contributors ........................................................... xiii Abbreviations .......................................................... xv Introduction............................................................ 1 Paul McKechnie alpha a new morning opened ... in the lecture-room Ptolemaic Royal Patronage............................................ 9 Oswyn Murray beta from zeus let us begin Economic Reforms in the Mid-Reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus..... 27 Dorothy J. Thompson The Foreign Policy of Ptolemy II ..................................... 39 Celine Marquaille A Re-Examination of the Chremonidean War....................... 65 James L. O'Neil The Unbalanced Relationship between Ptolemy II and Pyrrhus of Epirus ............................................................... 91 Geo? W. Adams OGIS 1266: Kings and Contracts in the Hellenistic World.......... 103 Matthew F. Trundle gamma countless are the lands ... but no land brings forth so much as low-lying egypt Egyptians in the Hellenic Woodpile: Were Hekataios of Abdera and Diodoros Sikeliotes Right to see Egypt in the Origins of Greece?.............................................................. 119 Martin Bernal Elephants for Ptolemy II: Ptolemaic Policy in Nubia in the Third Century BC ......................................................... 135 Stanley M. Burstein Piety and Diplomacy in Apollonius' Argonautica ...................... 149 Anatole Mori Maresha in the Reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus ................... 171 Amos Kloner Herakleopolis Magna under Philadelphus ........................... 183 Erja Salmenkivi delta how has it not occurred to any of the historians or poets to make mention of such enormous achievements? Ptolemy Philadelphus and Jewish Writings: Aristobulus and Pseudo-Aristeas as Examples of Alexandrian Jewish Approaches.......................................................... 193 Johann Cook Sexuality and Ptolemy's Greek Bible: Genesis 1-3 in Translation: '... Things which they Altered for King Ptolemy' (Genesis Rabbah 8.11) ........................................................ 207 William R.G. Loader Ptolemy Philadelphus: a New Moses ................................. 233 Paul McKechnie Philadelphus' Alexandria as Cradle of Biblical Historiography ..... 247 Philippe Guillaume contents vii Gendering Healing both Human and Divine: the Case of Sirach 38:1-15............................................................... 257 Elaine M. Wainwright epsilon ... and with zeus make end, ye muses Innovations in Ancient Garb? Hieroglyphic Texts from the Time of Ptolemy Philadelphus............................................275 Joachim Friedrich Quack The Problem of the Ptolemaic Sibling Marriage: a Case of Dynastic Acculturation? ............................................ 291 Kostas Buraselis Through a Woman's Eyes, and in a Woman's Voice: Ihweret as Focalizor in the First Tale of Setne Khaemwas......................... 303 Steve Vinson Bilistiche and the Prominence of Courtesans in the Ptolemaic Tradition ............................................................ 353 Daniel Ogden The God Serapis, his Cult and the Beginnings of the Ruler Cult in Ptolemaic Egypt.................................................. 387 Stefan Pfei?er Bibliography ........................................................... 409 Index ................................................................... 000
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Egypt -- History -- 332-30 B.C.
Ptolemy II Philadelphus, King of Egypt.