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Contents 5 List of Illustrations 9 Preface 11 Note on Abbreviations 13 Chapter One. Greeks and Egyptians 15 1.1. Physical and Epidemiological Environments 16 1.2.1. Demography: The Numbers Game 34 1.2.2. Demography: Patterns of Immigration 37 1.3.1. Ethnicity, Ideology and Identity 40 1.3.2. Government, Foreigners, and the Eternal Struggle between Good and Evil 46 1.4.1. Ethnocultural Perceptions 51 1.4.2. Greeks and Egyptian Medicine 55 1.5. Ethnicity and Medicine 56 Chapter Two. Medicine and the Gods 59 2.1.1. Medical Oracles in Context 60 2.1.2. Dreams 63 2.1.3. Incubation 66 2.1.4. Asklepieia Contrasted with Egyptian Sanctuaries 68 2.2.1. Reformulating Isis 72 2.2.2. The Sanctuaries and Roles of Sarapis 77 2.3.1. Healing and the Sacred Animal Necropolis at Saqqara 81 2.3.2. The Sarapieon of Memphis: The Greek Dream Interpreter 83 2.3.3. The Sarapieon of Memphis: The Greek Medical Text 86 2.3.4. The Asklepieion of Memphis: The Greek Patient 89 2.3.5. Hor 92 2.3.6. Taimhotep 95 2.4.1. Imhotep (Asklepios) and Amenhotep (Amenothes): The Pre-Ptolemaic Background 97 2.4.2. Imhotep and Amenhotep at Deir el-Bahari 101 2.5. Medical Modes at Healing Sanctuaries 107 2.6. Conclusions 112 C

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Author

Lang, Philippa;

Publisher

Brill

Published

2012

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction