Annotation
The course aims to study the interaction between the various ethnicities that made up Egypt in Ptolemaic and
Roman times - Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Jews and other immigrants from the Syro-Palestine region, the Araba peninsula and beyond. The course will focus on the three specific areas of Ptolemaic and Roman Eygpt, each with their very distinct characteristics: Alexandria, the Fayum/Arsinoites and Thebes. By means of several case studies, the course will investigate different approaches of the various ethnicities to the everchanging political situation, and its reflection in architecture, art, funerary traditions the individual´s legal status, as well as the individual choise for the use of specific language(s) and script(s).
Studijní literatura:
R.G. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, Oxford 2009.
R. Cribione, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt, Atlanta 1996.
J. McKenzie, The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, c. 300 BC - 700 AD, Yale/New Haven 2007.