Beyond the Nile
Subtitle: Egypt and the classical world
By: Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, Sara E. Cole, editors
Contributors: J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher: The J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781606065518
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Civilization, Greco-Roman; Classical Civilization; Exhibitions; Roman Art objects; Egyptian Art objects; Greek Art objects; Classical Art
Description: Egypt, the most ancient of the Mediterranean civilizations, inspired neighboring cultures with its art, religion, and learning. Already by around 3000 BC, cultural and artistic exchanges between Egypt and Crete were taking place, and contacts expanded greatly over the centuries with the arrival of Greek merchants, artists, and soldiers in Egypt. The complex interconnections between Egypt and the Classical World over the course of nearly 2,500 years-from the Bronze Age to the late Roman Empire-have never been comprehensively explored in a major publication or museum exhibition in the United States. It is precisely this aspect of Egypt's history that this groundbreaking publication aims to uncover. Renowned scholars have come together to provide compelling analyses of the constantly evolving dynamics of cultural exchange, first between Egypt and the civilizations of the Bronze Age Aegean, then during the Archaic and Classical periods of Greece (Egypt's Late Period), followed by the conquest of Alexander the Great and the nearly 300-year period of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt, and finally the defeat of Cleopatra VII and the incorporation of Egypt into the Roman Empire. With sixteen essays and more than 200 illustrations of rare objects-including pottery, coins, papyri, jewelry, frescoes, statues, and obelisks-Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World promises to be a seminal publication that invites the reader to move beyond traditional views of Egypt as an insular region and toward an expanded understanding of the ancient Mediterranean as a place of dynamic interaction. - from bookjacket.
Notes: "This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from March 27 to September 9, 2018"--title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Memphis, Minos, and Mycenae: Bronze Age contact between Egypt and the Aegean  -- Jorrit M. Kelder, Sara E. Cole, Eric H. Cline; title: Contact points: Avaris and Pi-Ramesse  -- Manfred Bietak and Constance von Ruden; title: In the midst of the great green: Egypto-Aegean trade and exchange  -- Jorrit M. Kelder and Eric H. Cline; title: The sea peoples  -- Eric H. Cline; title: The Greeks in Egypt: renewed contact in the Iron Age  -- Alexandra Villing; title: Contact points: Memphis, Naukratis, and the Greek east  -- Henry P. Colburn; title: The coming of Alexander and Egypt under Ptolemaic rule  -- Alan B. Lloyd; title: Contact points: Alexandria, a Hellenistic capital in Egypt  -- Thomas Landvatter; title: King and pharaoh: religious encounters and the ruler cult in Ptolemaic Egypt  -- Stefano Caneva; title: Portrait sculpture in Ptolemaic Egypt  -- Robert Steven Bianchi; title: Multiculturalism in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: language contact through the evidence of papyri and inscriptions  -- Luigi Prada; title: Before the empire: Egypt and Rome  -- Rolf Michael Schneider; title: Contact points: the image and reception of Egypt and its gods in Rome  -- John Pollini; title: Art and identity in Roman Egypt  -- Christina Riggs; title: Traveling gods: the cults of Isis in the Roman Empire  -- Laurent Bricault; title: Egypt and/in/as Rome -- Miguel John Versluys.