@article{Gurgel Pereira_2020, place={Campinas, SP}, title={Between religion and politics: Greek-Egyptian identity in Ptolemaic Egypt (4th – 1st centuries B.C.)}, volume={8}, url={https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/figura/article/view/13603}, DOI={10.20396/figura.v8i2.13603}, abstractNote={<p>The Hellenistic civilisation in Egypt was the result of complex relations between two symbolic universes in a constant process of update. The Hellenistic period created a new political reality by gathering together the Greek-Dominant and the Egyptian-Dominated in the same physical space. That new community would coexist during the following three centuries. Consequently, one’s perception of “Us” - and its differentiation from “Them” - become blurred. In this article, Egyptian religion gains a major focus to discuss how cultural updates are shaped by the way individuals understand, classify, and interact with the world surrounding them at a political, religious, cultural, and social levels. Hence, constant, gradual and always unpredictable transformations are in charge of redefinitions of cultural identities. The outcome of such a transformation of cultures is a new symbolic universe – in our case a Hellenistic universe – that developed a new world-view, replacing both traditional Egyptian and Hellenic.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Figura: Studies on the Classical Tradition}, author={Gurgel Pereira, Ronaldo Guilherme}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={8–35} }