Danaus βουγενής: Greco-Egyptian Mythology and Ptolemaic Kingship.

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  • Alexandros Kampakoglou Trinity College, University of Oxford

Abstract

Callimachus fr.54, in calling Berenice II βουγενής, evokes not only Danaus’ descent from Io but further the Apis cult and that of Dionysus at Argos, important to the Ptolemies, and finally Empedocles’ vision of the evolution of orderly life.

Author Biography

Alexandros Kampakoglou, Trinity College, University of Oxford

Lecturer in Classics

Trinity College, Oxford.

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2015-10-03

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