Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 372 p.)
Edition:
Reproduktion Issued also in print
ISBN:
9783111608051
Series Statement:
Chronoi / Time, Time Awareness, Time Management 13
Content:
This collective volume explores societal crises in Hellenistic Egypt, focussing regionally on the Thebaid, from small-scale insurgencies to full-fledged secession. As a result of an international conference held at the Freie Universität Berlin (May 2-4, 2019), the presented case studies ask how actors – and modern scholars – of Ptolemaic Egypt shape and frame times of crisis and what traces remain thereof in the record. As decisive moments in time, crises reveal fundamental features of societies and structure the flow of events into historically meaningful, yet potentially teleological, trajectories. In Ptolemaic historiography, from Polybius till today, the Great Theban Revolt (206–186 BCE) served as such a turning point, demarcating rise and decline. By confronting the historiographic record with independent – and yet partially unexploited – sources, such as temple epigraphy, Demotic (literary) texts, archaeological, numismatic and private documentation, the reunited studies aim at diversifying the perspectives on and in societal conflicts in Ptolemaic Egypt, in order to gain a fuller and more nuanced picture of how various actors, kings, queens, officials, and priests coped with times of crisis
Note:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Rebellious Priests of Thebes? -- Stratēgos Kallimachos II of the Thebaid: the Honours for a Royal Local Official in the Context of the Epigraphical Records from the Hellenistic World -- Lésôneis en Thébaïde : avant et après les crises -- Les cimetières osiriens, témoins de la politique des Lagides et de ses aléas -- How Did Coins Survive the Theban Crises in the Ptolemaic Period? -- Volcanoes, Floods, and Social Unrest: The Theban Unrest in Its Social and Environmental Context -- Arsinoe, Berenice, and Cleopatra: The ‘ABC’ of the Ptolemaic Ruler Cult in the Times of Crisis -- The Great Revolt 206–186 BCE in the Demotic Sources from Elephantine -- Native Revolts from South Thebes to North Thebes: Historical Facts and Royal Ideology According to the Priestly Decrees from Ptolemy V Epiphanes’ reign (204–180 BCE) -- Révoltes, meurtres et intrigues : L’histoire des Ptolémées d’après les parois des temples égyptiens -- La destruction des temples pendant les révoltes : un état de la question à partir de l’exemple de Médamoud -- De la « Grande Révolte de la Thébaïde » aux événements de 88 : un siècle d’insurrection thébaine ? -- Der große Aufstand in der Thebais nach den Aussagen in dem Synodaldekret Philensis II -- List of Contributors -- Names and Places Index -- Sources Index -- Res Notabiles Index
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Issued also in print
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111608556
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111607849
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Thebaid in times of crisis (Veranstaltung : 2019 : Berlin) The Thebaid in times of crisis Berlin : De Gruyter, 2025 ISBN 9783111607849
Language:
English
Keywords:
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783111608051
Author information:
Birk, Ralph Maria
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