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Author:   Margaret Geoga ,  John Steele
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   80
Weight:   0.896kg
ISBN:  

9789004129320

ISBN 10:   9004129324
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   22 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Editors’ Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction  Margaret Geoga and John Steele 2 Images of Babylon in Early Modern Europe  Michael Seymour 3 Between Babylon and Rome: The Panorama of Constantinople (1662)  Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby 4 Collapsing Identities of Ptolemaic Queens in Early Modern Rome  Andrea L. Middleton 5 Reading the East: From the Enlightenment to the Utopic Projects of the Revolutionary Architects  Elisa Boeri 6 Freemasons and Platonism: The Allure of Egypt between Big Ideas and Small Details  Florian Ebeling 7 Zoroaster’s French Moment  Maryam Sanjabi 8 Ancient and Modern: Citational Practices and the Status of Ancient Egypt in Jean Terrasson’s Séthos  Margaret Geoga 9 Representing Egypt in French Enlightenment Musical Theatre: From Gherardi to the Opéra national  Mark Darlow 10 From Tragic Hero to Creole Businesswoman: Voltaire’s Semiramis and Her Parodies in 18th-Century France and Saint-Domingue  Julia Prest 11 Babylonians in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: Comparative Antiquarianism in the Work of Sahagún  Felipe Rojas Silva 12 Egypt and Babylon in Eighteenth-Century European Histories of Astronomy  John Steele 13 What Was Oriental Studies in Early Modern Europe? “Oriental Languages” and the Making of a Discipline  Daniel Stolzenberg 14 On Religious Systems: An Early Essay by Jean-François Champollion  Diane Greco Josefowicz Index Nominum

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Margaret Geoga, Ph.D. (2020, Brown University), is an Egyptologist specializing in ancient Egyptian literature and the reception history of ancient Egypt. She has published on the transmission and reception of Egyptian poetry, as well as ancient Egyptian religion. John Steele, Ph.D. (1998, Durham University), is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at Brown University. He has published extensively on the history of astronomy, with a particular focus on Babylonian astronomy and its later reception.

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