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"That there were various ways of interaction between different groups in Graeco-Roman Egypt cannot be doubted, as a number of more or less recent regional studies have further reinforced. And as is well-known, Egypt emerges as a sort of exception in the study of ancient cultures and religions because it provides scholars with the opportunity to draw on a great number and variety of documents. Exploring interactively the diversity of documentary material is the main aim of this book. In socio-cultural terms, such an analysis corroborates the image of Egypt as a pervasive cultural system where for many centuries different elites coagulated themselves around a number of standard modalities to produce ""cultural"" and ""religious"" micro-systems. This shows that people, even when different languages and textual practices survive, respond to specific modalities of cohabitation under the umbrella of this hegemonic cultural ""field."""

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"Born 1977; 2005 PhD in Ancient History; 2007-12 Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Naples Federico II, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and the ""Michele Pellegrino"" Foundation (University of Turin); currently Professor of History of Ancient Christianity and History of Religions at the University of Naples Federico II."

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