Ptolemic Egypt (322-30 BC)
By the Ptolemaic period of Egypt (332-30 BC), Herakleopolis was still an important religious and cultural center in Egypt. The Greek rulers of this period, in an attempt to find connections and comparisons between their own gods and the gods of the land that they were now ruling, decided to associate the local god Heryshef with their god Heracles, thus the name often used by modern scholars for Herakleopolis.
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