Mario C D Paganini

Gymnasia and Greek Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt in the period 323-30 BC. Paganini analyses the role of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic Egypt and how it related to Greek identity in the region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780192845801
• ISBN-10: 0192845802
• Artikelnr.: 63517004

Autorenporträt

Mario C. D. Paganini obtained his DPhil in Ancient History from the University of Oxford and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Copenhagen and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has conducted extensive research on the socio-cultural history of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and on Greek documentary papyrology, including on private associations and on the first global edition of the papyri belonging to the archive of Apollonios, strategus of the Apollonopolites Heptakomias (second century AD).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: The Institution
3: The Gymnasium at Alexandria
4: Legal Status of Gymnasia
5: The Officials
6: Gymnasial Status
7: Outsiders: Integration and Rejection
8: Living the Greek Way
9: The Gymnasium and Greek Identity
Appendix 1: Gymnasia and 'Gymnasial Bodies' of Ptolemaic Egypt by Location
Appendix 2: List of Relevant Sources for the Ptolemaic Period
Appendix 3: Prosopography of Gymnasiarchs
Chronology of Ptolemaic Sovereigns