Format:
xxxiv, 380 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781108844901
,
9781108949002
Content:
"As Ruler of the Two Lands, Egypt's pharaoh wore the double pschent crown: the red crown of Lower Egypt, in the north, surrounding the white crown of Upper Egypt, in the south. Personified in the ruler, this union remained a central ideal throughout Egyptian history. The unity of Upper and Lower Egypt, also symbolized in the knot tied between papyrus and reed, was long seen as key to Egypt's success. (Fig. 1.1.1) In practice, however, the country was diverse in many ways, with an ongoing struggle between the central ideologies of unity and uniformity and the realities on the ground. Egypt was a self-consciously distinctive culture that also constantly received and absorbed immigrants from many countries into its society"--
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108953948
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Roman Egypt Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Roman Egypt Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781108953948
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Ägypten
;
Römerzeit
;
Geschichte 30 v. Chr.-640
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Bagnall, Roger S. 1947-