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Amasis: the pharaoh with no illusions. (ancient Egypt)
History Today; 3/1/1996; Ray, John; 3494 words
; ... compromise can be seen in his treatment of the Greek settlement at Naucratis in the western Delta. The king assigned exclusive trading ... Egyptians believed that they were gaining a concession. The Naucratis settlement shows political tight-rope walking of a high order ...
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Deconstruction: fad or philosophy?
Humanitas; 9/22/2001; Keller, David R.; 6533 words
; ... Socrates recounts for Phaedrus the myth of Theuth, the story behind writing's origin: (19) The story is that in the region of Naucratis in Egypt there dwelt one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name being ...
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Art or kitsch? Michael Vickers asks why so many historians ignore the evidence that ancient Greek painted ceramics were largely cheap imitations of vessels in precious metals.
Apollo; 1/1/2007; Vickers, Michael; 934 words
; ... pottery cups must have been added in order to make them resemble patinated silver. It was already known that the potters of Naucratis, a Greek town in Egypt, would regularly 'baptise' their wares in order to make them look like silver, and all became dear ...
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Sella cacatoria: a study of the potty in archaic and classical Athens.
Hesperia; 1/1/2006; Lynch, Kathleen M. Papadopoulos, John K.; 12846 words
; ... the Gorgon Painter, no number, ABV 12, no. 29 [Beazley archive no. 300112, with image]; a fragment from a closed shape from Naucratis attributed to the Manner of Gorgon Painter ( may be the painter himself ), Oxford, Ashmolean G 550, ABV 13, no. 41; CVA Oxford ...
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Food and feasting in antiquity.("Food in the Ancient World")("Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Greece")("The Mycenaean Feast")(Book review)
Antiquity; 12/1/2006; Renfrew, Jane; 2445 words
; ... largely on the written word. The main sources are Galen of Pergamum who wrote mainly from a medical point of view, Athenaeus of Naucratis, a food encyclopaedist, Plutarch of Chaeronea, and Pliny. Using some of the agricultural authors such as Cato, Varro and Columella ...
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Gastronomy studies in search of hospitality.(academic framework for food studies)
Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management; 6/1/2002; Scarpato, Rosario; 7080 words
; ... exception of Archestratus (1994, revision) and Athenee de Naucratis (trans., 1956). An embryonic form of gastronomy was contained ... Wilkins & S. Hill). Blacktown: Prospect Books. Athenee de Naucratis. (1956). Les deipnosophistes (Livres I-II, Trans. A.M. Desrosseaux ...
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Agypten und die Fremden im ersten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert.(Book Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2004; Quack, Joachim Friedrich; 929 words
; ... they offer many views of less well-known monuments, including an underwater photograph of the recently found duplicate to the Naucratis stela. In the concluding section, Vittmann first points out the various possible onomastic schemas of mixed or purely foreign ...
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