The Egyptian Priests of the Graeco-Roman Period: An Analysis on the Basis of the Egyptian and Graeco-Roman Literary and Paraliterary Sources /

Throughout Egyptian history, high-ranking Egyptian priests were the scholars responsible for the creation of the very material that constituted the core of Egyptian intellectual culture. During the first millennium BCE, and particularly in the Graeco-Roman period (late fourth century BCE–fourth cent...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Escolano Poveda, Marina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Colección:Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion.
Temas:
Priests > Egypt.
Prêtres > Égypte.
Priests
Religion
Egypt > Religion.
Égypte > Religion.
Egypt
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Pages
  • Table of Contents
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
  • 1. History of research
  • 2. The plan of this book
  • PART ONE
  • CHAPTER 2: DEMOTIC NARRATIVES
  • 1. The Inaros-Pedubastis cycle
  • 1.1. The Fight for the Sinecure of Amun
  • 1.1.1. The young priest of Horus of Pe in Buto
  • 1.1.2. The First Prophet of Amun
  • 1.1.3. Other priests
  • 1.2. The Fight for the Armor of Inaros
  • 1.2.1. The scribe of the divine book
  • 1.2.2. The scribe of the House of Life
  • 2. The Story of Peteisis
  • 2.1. Frame story
  • 2.1.1. Peteisis
  • 2.1.2. Hareus
  • 2.1.3. Other priests
  • 2.2. Short stories
  • 3. The Instruction of Ankhsheshonqy
  • 3.1. Ankhsheshonqy
  • 3.2. Harsiesis
  • 3.3. Other priests
  • 4. The Setne cycle
  • 4.1. Setne
  • 4.2. Naneferkaptah
  • 4.3. The old priest
  • 4.4. Si-Osiris
  • 4.5. Horus son of Paneshe
  • 4.6. Other priests
  • 5. Papyrus Vandier
  • 5.1. Merire
  • 5.2. The court magicians
  • 6. Amasis and the skipper
  • 7. The magician Hi (son of) Hor
  • 8. The Saqqara Demotic Papyri
  • 9. The story of Padipep
  • 10. Eine neue demotische Erzählung
  • 11. Narratives from the Tebtunis Temple Library
  • 12. The Life of Imhotep
  • 7. Iamblichos' De mysteriis (and Porphyry's Epistula ad Anebonem)
  • CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS TO CHAPTERS 2-4
  • 1. Egyptian priests in Demotic narratives
  • 1.1. Characteristics of the Egyptian priesthood in Demotic literature
  • 1.1.1. Physical characteristics
  • 1.1.2. Age
  • 1.1.3. Social situation
  • 1.1.4. Name
  • 1.1.5. Epithets and titles
  • 1.1.6. Actions: ritual, magical
  • 1.1.7. Moral characterization
  • 1.2. Other important aspects in the Demotic narratives
  • 1.2.1. Wisdom and knowledge
  • 1.2.2. Priests being paid for their services
  • CHAPTER 3: GRAECO-EGYPTIAN LITERATURE
  • 1. The Greek Alexander Romance: Nectanebo
  • 2. Manetho and Chaeremon (with a postscript on Horapollo)
  • 2.1. Manetho
  • 2.2. Chaeremon
  • 2.3. Postscript: Horapollo and the transmission of Chaeremon's Hieroglyphika
  • 3. The Hermetica
  • 3.1. The Hermetica: texts, chronology, and history of research
  • 3.2 The technical Hermetica
  • 3.2.1. The Graeco-Egyptian magical formularies
  • 3.2.2. The early alchemical texts
  • 3.2.2.1. Pseudo-Demokritos' Physika kai mystika
  • 3.2.2.2. Zosimos of Panopolis
  • 3.3. The philosophical Hermetica
  • 3.4. Conclusions
  • CHAPTER 4: GRAECO-ROMAN LITERATURE
  • 1. The ancient novel
  • 1.1. The Aithiopika of Heliodoros
  • 1.1.1 Kalasiris
  • 2. Lucian's Philopseudes
  • 2.1. Pankrates
  • 3. Apuleius' Metamorphoses
  • 3.1. Zatchlas
  • 3.2. Priests in Book 11 (the Isis Book)
  • 3.2.1. The priest of Cenchreae, the high priest Mithras, and the pastophorus Asinius Marcellus
  • 3.2.2. The priests of the procession and other priestly figures in Book 11
  • 4. Thessalos
  • 5. Harnuphis and the "miraculous rain"
  • 6. Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride
  • 6.1. The Egyptian priests according to Plutarch

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