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Sesostris - Scheschonq - Sesonchosis: Ein internationaler Held und sein Nachwirken, 2024
A history of two unflattering episodes from the Sesostris legend: the attempted fraternal coup an... more A history of two unflattering episodes from the Sesostris legend: the attempted fraternal coup and the king-drawn chariot.
Scribe, 2024
A brief overview of the City of the Baboon Project's first year of work at Hermopolis Magna (Ashm... more A brief overview of the City of the Baboon Project's first year of work at Hermopolis Magna (Ashmunein).
KTÈMA , 2022
This article explores the Ptolemaic discourse of city foundation through the stories of ancient E... more This article explores the Ptolemaic discourse of city foundation through the stories of ancient Egyptian city foundation in Manetho’s Aegyptiaca and Diodorus Siculus’ Library of History Book 1. It traces how Greek and Egyptian modes of narrating urban foundations were modified to fit the Ptolemaic situation and argues that the example of Alexandria’s meteoric rise to prominence and the various reactions it inspired influenced the narratives that were composed for three ancient Egyptian cities: Thebes, Memphis, and Avaris.
Classical Philology, 2020
In this article I argue that P. Oxy. 5263 provides evidence that the fragmentary text conventiona... more In this article I argue that P. Oxy. 5263 provides evidence that the fragmentary text conventionally titled The Sesonchosis Novel was biographical in scope. I explore the implications of this suggestion for Sesonchosis' relationship to The Alexander Romance, The Ninos Novel, and the Demotic Sesostris narrative.
Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds, 2021
This chapter explores two strategies for preserving the memory of live music in early Ptolemaic E... more This chapter explores two strategies for preserving the memory of live music in early Ptolemaic Egypt by reading Posidippus’ epigram (37 AB) on Arion’s lyre next to Hedylus’ epigram (4 GP) on an automated rhyton in the shape of the Egyptian god Bes. While Arion’s lyre captures the essence of a classic but long-dead virtuoso in amber, the rhyton performs its song on endless repeat. I suggest that the automated rhyton, as interpreted by Hedylus, represents an attempt to create an eternal first performance of a type of song that could represent the Graeco-Egyptian Ptolemaic empire: a hymn to the Nile.
The Alexander Romance: History and Literature, 2018
Sesostris - Scheschonq - Sesonchosis: Ein internationaler Held und sein Nachwirken, 2024
A history of two unflattering episodes from the Sesostris legend: the attempted fraternal coup an... more A history of two unflattering episodes from the Sesostris legend: the attempted fraternal coup and the king-drawn chariot.
Scribe, 2024
A brief overview of the City of the Baboon Project's first year of work at Hermopolis Magna (Ashm... more A brief overview of the City of the Baboon Project's first year of work at Hermopolis Magna (Ashmunein).
KTÈMA , 2022
This article explores the Ptolemaic discourse of city foundation through the stories of ancient E... more This article explores the Ptolemaic discourse of city foundation through the stories of ancient Egyptian city foundation in Manetho’s Aegyptiaca and Diodorus Siculus’ Library of History Book 1. It traces how Greek and Egyptian modes of narrating urban foundations were modified to fit the Ptolemaic situation and argues that the example of Alexandria’s meteoric rise to prominence and the various reactions it inspired influenced the narratives that were composed for three ancient Egyptian cities: Thebes, Memphis, and Avaris.
Classical Philology, 2020
In this article I argue that P. Oxy. 5263 provides evidence that the fragmentary text conventiona... more In this article I argue that P. Oxy. 5263 provides evidence that the fragmentary text conventionally titled The Sesonchosis Novel was biographical in scope. I explore the implications of this suggestion for Sesonchosis' relationship to The Alexander Romance, The Ninos Novel, and the Demotic Sesostris narrative.
Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds, 2021
This chapter explores two strategies for preserving the memory of live music in early Ptolemaic E... more This chapter explores two strategies for preserving the memory of live music in early Ptolemaic Egypt by reading Posidippus’ epigram (37 AB) on Arion’s lyre next to Hedylus’ epigram (4 GP) on an automated rhyton in the shape of the Egyptian god Bes. While Arion’s lyre captures the essence of a classic but long-dead virtuoso in amber, the rhyton performs its song on endless repeat. I suggest that the automated rhyton, as interpreted by Hedylus, represents an attempt to create an eternal first performance of a type of song that could represent the Graeco-Egyptian Ptolemaic empire: a hymn to the Nile.
The Alexander Romance: History and Literature, 2018