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Ian Moyer
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2004
Other U of M Affiliation:
Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2520 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-647-7946
E-mail:
ianmoyer@umich.edu
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Field(s) of Study:
Ancient Greek history, especially of the Hellenistic period; Late Period, Ptolemaic, and Roman Egypt; non-Greeks and Hellenism; ethnicity and culture in the ancient world; historiography and ethnography; religion and magic
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Biography:
Ian Moyer completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, and before coming to Michigan, he taught in the History and Classics departments at Pomona College. He has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
He is currently completing a book, entitled Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism, in which he explores the ancient history and modern historiography of cultural and intellectual encounters between ancient Greeks and Egyptians. This work ranges across the fields of history, classics, Egyptology, and the history of religions, and addresses questions of culture, identity and representation at issue in anthropology and post-colonial studies.
In his most recent work, he is reassessing relations between the Graeco-Macedonian state and the indigenous élite in Ptolemaic Egypt, and examining new political and cultural practices that were developed through transcultural interactions and negotiations.
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Selected Publications:
“Notes on re-reading the Delian Aretalogy of Sarapis (IG XI.4 1299),” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 166 (2008): 101-107
“Golden Fetters and Economies of Cultural Exchange,” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 6 (2006): 225-256.
“Miniaturization and the Opening of the Mouth in a Greek Magical Text (PGM XII.270-350)” with Jacco Dieleman, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 3 (2003): 47-71.
“Magical Initiation: Transitions and Power in Graeco-Egyptian Ritual” in Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives, edited by David Dodd and Christopher A. Faraone (London & New York: Routledge, 2003): 219-38.
“Herodotus and an Egyptian Mirage: The Genealogies of the Theban Priests,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 122 (2002): 70-90.
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