Fetes d’Egypte ptolemaique et romaine d’apres la documentation papyrologique grecque

by F. Perpillou-Thomas

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Extent: 293 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Language & Linguistics

Series: Studia Hellenistica

Series volume number: 31

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(January 1993)

ISBN: 9789042927681

Price: $50.00

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This book offers a complete survey of all festivals, official and private, in Greco-Roman Egypt, with a thorough discussion of their name, date in the calender, religious and social background, etc. The collection of evidence is of importance to papyrologists, anthropologists, egyptologists and historians of Greek and Egyptian religion and customs in Antiquity. Important sections deal with problems of calendar and with the economic aspects of festivals.

  • By (author) F Perpillou-Thomas