Book: Chasing Down Religion
Chapter: The Use of Egyptian Tradition in Alexandria of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: Self-Display and Identity of Rulers, Ideology and Further Political Propaganda
Blurb:
Egyptian elements of religious character can be found in several types of material evidence, such as coinage, monumental art and architecture. All these types of material are related, in multiple ways, to the public life in Alexandria’s multicultural society, throughout the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
For the sake of a thorough insight into the material evidence, the discussion will be divided in the following three chronological subperiods:
1. The early Ptolemaic period (Ptolemy I- Ptolemy V)
2. The Late Ptolemaic period (Ptolemy V- Cleopatra VII)
3. The Roman period (From Augustus to the end of the 3rd century AD/ beginning of the 4rth century AD)