Gymnasia and Greek Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt

This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt in the period 323-30 BC. Paganini analyses the role of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic Egypt and how it related to Greek identity in the region.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Institution


• 3: The Gymnasium at Alexandria


• 4: Legal Status of Gymnasia


• 5: The Officials


• 6: Gymnasial Status


• 7: Outsiders: Integration and Rejection


• 8: Living the Greek Way


• 9: The Gymnasium and Greek Identity


• Appendix 1: Gymnasia and 'Gymnasial Bodies' of Ptolemaic Egypt by Location


• Appendix 2: List of Relevant Sources for the Ptolemaic Period


• Appendix 3: Prosopography of Gymnasiarchs


• Chronology of Ptolemaic Sovereigns

About the author

Mario C. D. Paganini obtained his DPhil in Ancient History from the University of Oxford and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Copenhagen and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has conducted extensive research on the socio-cultural history of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and on Greek documentary papyrology, including on private associations and on the first global edition of the papyri belonging to the archive of Apollonios, strategus of the Apollonopolites Heptakomias (second century AD).

Summary

This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt in the period 323-30 BC. Paganini analyses the role of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic Egypt and how it related to Greek identity in the region.

Additional text

The novelty of this book is that it shifts focus away from Greek poleis to the communities of Greek immigrants in Hellenistic Egypt.

Product details

• Authors: Editor, Mario Paganini, Mario C. D. Paganini, Mario C. D. ( Paganini, Mario C. D. (Austrian Archaeological Ins Paganini
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780192845801
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284580-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, Egypt, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, African History, Ancient Egypt, BCE to c 500 CE, 4th century, c 399 to c 300 BCE