Expert: Maria - 10/26/2006

Question
Dear Mrs. Maria,
My name is Alexandru Moraru and I am a third year student at the History Faculty at the "Babes-Bolyai" University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
I've seen your address at Ask the Expert and it came to my mind that you could answer me a question: do you know any Internet sources where one can find detailed resources regarding Hellenistic history?
My graduation project, at the end of year four, deals with the cultural and religious history of the Hellenistic Orient in generall and Ptolemaic Egypt in special. The project would have the title: "Spiritual interferences in Hellenistic Egypt and Levant", although it is not definitively set.
That is why I searched the Internet but with no success in finding some interesting and detailed pages regarding hellenistic history.
I found on the Internet a good page http://www.houseofptolemy.org/ but with not so complete links, and I found at Amazon.com for sale Peter Frazer's book, "Ptolemaic Alexandria", but that is all.
So, if you know interesting Internet sites and good book titles linked to hellenistic cultural, spiritual and religious history, regarding Hellenistic Orient and Ptolemaic Egypt, I would be very grateful if you could send me an e-mail with them, or let me know where you post your answers.
Respectfully,
Alexandru Moraru.

Answer
Hello Alexandru,

I’m sorry, but I’m afraid I cannot help you as there are not so many Internet sites that focus on Hellenistic Egypt cultural, spiritual and religious history.

Anyway here are some suggestions that I hope can be helpful to you.
Good luck!
Maria
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ONLINE SITES.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_Egypt
http://www.answers.com/topic/hellenistic-civilization
http://interoz.com/egypt/alexhis1.htm
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9110630/Hellenistic-religion
http://www.well.com/user/davidu/cultural.html
http://www.experiencefestival.com/culture_of_egypt_-_ptolemy


BOOKS

-Hölbl, Günther. 2001. A History of the Ptolemaic Empire. Translated by Tina Saavedra. London: Routledge Ltd.

-HAROLD R. WILLOUGHBY, Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery Initiations in the Graeco-Roman World (1929, reprinted 1974)

-M. ROSTOVTZEFF, The Social & Economic History of the Hellenistic World, 3 vol. (1941, reissued 1986)

-Bowman, Alan Keir. 1996. Egypt After the Pharaohs: 332 BC–AD 642; From Alexander to the Arab Conquest. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press

-Chauveau, Michel. 2000. Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra: History and Society under the Ptolemies. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press

-Ellis, Simon P. 1992. Graeco-Roman Egypt. Shire Egyptology 17, ser. ed. Barbara G. Adams. Aylesbury: Shire Publications, ltd.

-Lloyd, Alan Brian. 2000. "The Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BC)". In The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, edited by Ian Shaw. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 395–421

-The Cambridge History of Egypt by Carl F. Petry