Graeco-Aegyptiaca | Carolina López-Ruiz: Egyptian Herakles and Syrian Aphrodite?

The Graeco-Aegyptiaca online seminar started in January 2022 with papers given monthly by established scholars in the field of Egyptian and Greek cultural relations. The second season's fifth event „Egyptian Herakles and Syrian Aphrodite? Disentangling perceptions of Phoenician art and religion in the Greek tradition” was held by Carolina López-Ruiz (University of Chicago) on 25 April 2023.

In this talk Carolina López-Ruiz offers some thoughts on the entanglement of Phoenician and Egyptian cultures, and focuses on the impact this phenomenon had in the perception of Phoenician art and religion in ancient Greek traditions and modern scholarship.

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Graeco-Aegyptiaca is a collaborative initiative by colleagues in the fields of Egyptology and Classics based in Hungary and the United Kingdom. The project aims to bring together researchers interested in the history of cultural interaction between Egyptians and Greeks from the very beginning to the Byzantine period.

Further information:
University College London - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/graeco...
The Palladion - https://www.palladion.hu/en/graeco-ae...