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Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World

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From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as crucial nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one any other’s work, creating cultural and artistic hybrids that transcended a single tradition. Yet regardless of the remarkable artistic production that resulted from these interchanges, the complex vicissitudes of exchange between Egypt and the Classical world over the course of nearly 2500 years have not been comprehensively explored in a major exhibition or publication in the US. It is precisely this aspect of Egypt’s history, then again, that Beyond the Nile uncovers.
 
Renowned scholars have come together to provide compelling analyses of the continuously evolving dynamics of cultural exchange, first between Egyptians and Greeks—throughout the Bronze Age, then the Archaic and Classical periods of Greece, and in spite of everything Ptolemaic Egypt—and later, when Egypt passed to Roman rule with the defeat of Cleopatra.
 
Beyond the Nile, a milestone publication issued on the occasion of a major international exhibition, will grow to be an indispensable contribution to the field. With gorgeous photographs of more than two hundred rare objects, including frescoes, statues, obelisks, jewelry, papyri, pottery, and coins, this volume offers an essential and inter-disciplinary approach to the wealthy world of artistic cross-pollination throughout antiquity.
 

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