The Gift of the Nile
Subtitle: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander (Classics and Contemporary Thought)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780520228207
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; To 332 B.C; History - General History; Greece; Ancient (Classical) Greek; History: World; Ancient Egypt; Ancient Greece; History and criticism; Ancient - Egypt; Ancient and Classical; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; History / Ancient / General; Egypt; Civilization; Greek literature; Historiography; To 146 B.C
First sentence: With Athenian tragedy, Greek anxieties about a sexual threat from Egypt assume a forceful and violent apotheosis.