How Egyptian is it?

Two easy answers, both wrong. Not a Greek costume drama with Egyptian scenery; not an unbroken pharaonic wisdom in Greek clothes. What the evidence supports is a real bilingual milieu — Egyptian temple priests with Greek philosophical training, in a country where both were ordinary.

The pack's standing correction against the two romances. It also explains the tone of the texts: the lament for the temples in the Asclepius is grief from inside, not orientalism from outside.