Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Figures VII
4. List of Tables XI
5. Introduction XIII
6. Part I: Images and Space
7. Greek-Egyptian Forms of Interaction in Ptolemaic Portraiture 1
8. Life in the Villages of the Ptolemaic Period: Ray Oldenburg’s “Third Places” Revisited in the Fayum Oasis 49
9. The Fayum: A Changing Landscape 67
10. Part II: Ethnic Interactions
11. Landed Property and Neighbour Relations in Ptolemaic Egypt 99
12. Bilingualism and Translation in the Early Ptolemaic Administration 113
13. Greeks in the Bilingual Sureties of the Fayum (3rd c. BC) 131
14. Greek Petitions by Egyptians in 3rd-century BC Egypt 141
15. The Dossier of the Agoranomoi of the Arsinoites 157
16. Part III: The Literary Experience
17. Books, Authors, and the Public in the Hellenistic Arsinoite Nome: Some Considerations 183
18. Laughs from the Mummies: Old Comedy in Ptolemaic Papyri 205
19. Menander in the Papyri of the Ptolemaic Period from the Arsinoites 227
20. Greek Historiography in Hellenistic Egypt 263
21. Teaching Propaganda: Water, Food, and Power in the Livre d’Écolier 295
22. Fragments of a Medical Treatise on a Greek Papyrus Roll Dated to the Mid-3rd c. BC: P.IFAO grec inv. 520 311
23. Greek Medicine in Hellenistic Egypt: SB VIII 9860, One of the Earliest Greek Collections of Medical Recipes on Papyrus 337
24. Music, Books, and Literary Attitudes in the Zenon Archive 351
25. List of Contributors 387
26. General Index 391
27. Index of Inscriptions, Papyri and Other Manuscripts 395