It cannot be doubted that there were various ways of interaction between different groups in Graeco-Roman Egypt, as a number of more or less recent regional studies have further reinforced. And as is well-known, Egypt emerges as a sort of exception in the study of ancient cultures and religions, providing scholars with the possibility of relying on a great number and variety of documents. Exploring interactively the diversity of documentary material is the main aim of this volume. In socio-cultural terms, such an analysis corroborates the image of Egypt as a pervasive cultural system where for many centuries different elites coagulated themselves around a number of standard modalities to produce "cultural" and "religious" micro-systems. This shows that people, even when different languages and textual practices survive, respond to specific modalities of cohabitation under the umbrella of this hegemonic cultural "field."
Contributors:Luca Arcari, Marie-Françoise Baslez, Philippe Blaudeau, Paola Buzi, Livia Capponi, Mark J. Edwards, Thomas J. Kraus, Hugo Lundhaug, Philippe Matthey, Francesco Massa, Mariangela Monaca, Adele Monaci Castagno, Tobias Nicklas, Carmine Pisano, Bernard Pouderon, Marco Rizzi, Antonio Sena, Giulia Sfameni Gasparro, Sofía Torallas Tovar, Daniele Tripaldi, Ewa Wipszycka
