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Tables of Contents for Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Translator's Note
ix
Genealogical Table of the Ptolemaic Dynasty
x
Map of Egypt
xii
Introduction
1
5
Historical Perspective
6
23
The Heritage of Alexander the Great
6
5
Crisis in the Kingdom under Philopator and Epiphanes
11
2
Ptolemy VI Philometor and the Recovery of Egypt
13
2
The Fat King and His Wives
15
1
Physkon's Children
16
2
Ptolemy the Flutist
18
2
The Flight and Return of Auletes
20
2
Auletes's Children
22
2
Cleopatra, Ally of Rome
24
2
Cleopatra and Antony
26
3
Greek Pharaohs and their Subjects
29
23
Kings, Queens, and Royal Children
29
4
A King for the Greeks
33
1
The Defied King
34
3
A Pharaoh for the Egyptians
37
2
A Pharaoh for the Gods
39
1
Protection of the Temples
40
1
Royal ``Philanthropy''
41
2
Visits to the Provinces
43
1
A Regal Life
44
1
The Program of the Royal Titularies
45
1
The Allegiance of the Clergy
46
3
The Ideology of Resistance
49
3
Cities and Countryside
52
20
A Unique Land
52
3
A Multitudinous Population
55
1
The Lagide Capital
56
2
The Center of the Hellenistic World
58
5
The Delta
63
2
Memphis and the Faiyum
65
2
Map of the Faiyum area
67
1
Upper Egypt
67
2
Architecture and Urbanism
69
3
Economy and Society
72
28
The Weight of Bureaucracy
72
1
The Strategos
73
3
The Official Scribes
76
2
The Burden of Taxation
78
2
Resistance and Contraband
80
2
A Cash Economy
82
2
The Ravages of Inflation
84
3
The Misery of the Peasants
87
3
Autopsy of a Village: Kerkeosiris
90
3
Artisans and Shopkeepers
93
2
Greeks and Egyptians before the Law
95
3
Slavery
98
2
Priests and Temples
100
35
The Most Religious of Peoples
100
2
New Sanctuaries
102
4
Sacred Animals
106
2
The Prestige of the Priests
108
1
Piety outside the Temples
109
4
Greek Priests
113
2
Temple Economy
115
2
Oracles and Oaths
117
1
Strange Slaves
117
1
The Deities of Memphis
118
5
The Life and Dreams of Ptolemaios the Recluse
123
4
Coveted Virgins
127
2
The Woes of an Egyptian Mendicant Friar
129
2
To Be Greek in an Egyptian Temple
131
2
An Informer in the Temple
133
2
Living on the Death of Others
135
16
The Land of the Dead
135
1
The Greeks and the Egyptian Afterlife
136
1
Specialists in the Service of the Dead
137
2
The Choachytai at Work
139
2
A Professional Association
141
2
''Saints'' Sometimes Disturbed
143
1
Division of Labor in the Other Corporations
143
2
A Disputed House
145
2
Cadavers in the City
147
2
An Embalmer Complains to the King
149
2
Soldiers and Peasants
151
19
A Military State
151
1
Soldiers in the Countryside
152
2
The Hazards of Cohabitation
154
1
Independent Income from Real Estate
155
1
A Soldier-Speculator: Dionysios, Son of Kephalas
156
2
A Curious ``Persian''
158
2
A Military Colony in the South of Egypt: Pathyris
160
1
A Cretan in Egypt: The Cavalryman Dryton
160
4
The Solidarity of an Egyptian Family
164
2
The Sudden Disappearance of a Garrison
166
1
The End of the Lagide Army
167
3
Two Languages, Two Cultures, Three Writing Systems
170
21
A Multicultural Society
170
1
The New Arthens
171
2
Decline and Rebirth of Alexandrianism
173
3
Medicine in the Reign of Cleopatra
176
1
Greek Culture in the Countryside
177
1
Poems in the Midst of Accounts
178
2
Hellenizing Distractions at the Serapeum
180
2
Appollonios and the Last Pharaoh
182
1
The Native Temples as Guardians of Religious Culture
183
2
Demotic: Living Language and New Literature
185
1
Egyptian Stories and Romances
186
1
Wisdom and Satire
187
2
Hellenism at Edfu
189
2
Conclusion
191
6
Abbreviations
197
2
Notes
199
15
Glossary
214
3
Index
217