Expertlatin
- What did the Greeks say about ancient Egypt?
- What did the Greeks use to call Egypt?
- Did ancient Greece know about ancient Egypt?
- What would ancient Greeks have used marble for?
What did the Greeks say about ancient Egypt?
The 5th-century Greek historian Herodotos records that the Egyptians were difficult to define from the outside. The Greeks generally considered "Egypt" to comprise the Nile Delta alone -- what the Egyptians called Lower Egypt -- while anything on the east bank of the river was Arabia and anything to the west was Libya.
What did the Greeks use to call Egypt?
In The Odyssey, Homer used “Aegyptus” to refer to the land of Egypt, meaning it was in use by the eighth century B.C. Victorian sources suggested "Aegyptus" a corruption of Hwt-ka-Ptah (Ha-ka-Ptah), “home of the soul of Ptah.” That was the Egyptian name for the city of Memphis, where Ptah, the potter-creator god, was ...
Did ancient Greece know about ancient Egypt?
By the 5th– 4th centuries BC Greek intellectuals had a pretty good idea of Egyptian culture. They knew it was ancient (in fact they greatly overestimated how old it was), and they saw it as a source of knowledge and esoteric wisdom.
What would ancient Greeks have used marble for?
The ancient Greeks valued it and primarily used it for making sculptures. Some notable sculptures include Venus de Milo, Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, Parthenon's roof tiles, and Napoleon's tomb. It was also used for the construction of public buildings and temples at Delos, Delphi, Athens, and Olympia.
