Opis

• Title:
  Egyptian Motifs in Greek Mythic Tales
• Creator:
  Taterka, Filip
• Description:
  The paper discusses the reception of Egyptian motifs in Greek mythography based on three case studies: Herodotus’ Histories, Diodorus Siculus’ Library of History and Plato’s Phaedrus. It is argued that all of these works contain elements that find their parallels in either Late Egyptian or Demotic texts. The content of these was made accessible to the Greek authors either through written translations or oral conversations with Egyptian priests. As a result, it is argued that the idea that naming Egyptian priests as a source of knowledge by the classical authors should not be automatically interpreted as a mere topos, since this might actually reflect historical reality, at least in some instances.
• Object availability:
  Dostęp otwarty
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Filip Taterka
• Date:
  2025.09.15
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  polski
• Source:
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Vol. 35 No. 1 (2025); 27-47;
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Tom 35 Nr 1 (2025); 27-47;
  2720-2305;
  0302-7384
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/49605/40188
• Subject:
  Egyptian and Greek mythography;
  Egyptian priests;
  Greek encounters with Egypt;
  Herodotus;
  Diodorus Siculus;
  Plato’s critique of writing;
  Phaedrus;
  Book of Thoth;
  Tebtunis
• Identifier: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/49605
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  teksty