New Open-Access Volume Sheds Light on Interactions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome

From Mycenaean weaponry found among the cargo of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the Turkish coast to the Egyptian-inspired domestic interiors of a luxury villa built in Greece during the Roman Empire, Egypt and the Classical World: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity (J. Paul Getty Museum) documents two millennia of cultural and artistic interconnectedness in the ancient Mediterranean.

This generously illustrated, open-access volume gathers pioneering research from the Getty symposium that helped shape the major exhibition Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World held at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2018.

Created using Getty’s digital publishing platform Quire, and documenting two millennia of cultural and artistic interconnectedness in the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt and the Classical World considers a range of artistic and other material evidence, including archaeological finds, artworks, papyri, and inscriptions, to shed light on cultural interactions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Late Period and Ptolemaic dynasty to the Roman Empire. Specialists across the fields of art history, archaeology, Classics, Egyptology, and philology will benefit from the volume’s investigations into syncretic processes that enlivened and informed nearly 2,500 years of dynamic cultural exchange.