Graeco-Roman

ISBN: 9789042924314
Published by : Peeters Press
Publishes 157 tax receipts and other texts from Thebes in Early Ptolemaic Egypt (332-200 BC), including 102 Demotic texts and 55 Greek or bilingual texts. The texts are grouped and discussed by tax category, whilst additional chapters reconstru... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521765510
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In a series of studies, Ian Moyer explores the ancient history and modern historiography of relations between Egypt and Greece from the fifth century BCE to the early Roman empire. Beginning with Herodotus, he analyzes key encounters between Gr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407308623
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume presents the results of a large scale systematic survey of the shores of the western arm of Lake Mareotis, Alexandria, and develops a more detailed picture of its role in the city's ancient economy. Specialist reports cover the imp... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780979975837
Published by : American Society of Papyrologists
Series: AMERICAN STUDIES IN PAPYROLOGY
Volume: 49
This volume publishes 27 Greek papyri concerned with the transport of grain from Oxyrhynchus to Alexandria and Pelusium. Each text is presented with introduction, Greek text, English translation and explanatory notes. In the general introductio... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780691142623
Published by : Princeton University Press
This new history of Hellenistic Egypt does not, like many others provide a political narrative, but instead a detailed analysis of Ptolemaic institutions, looking at the nature and development of the state and the exercise of power, as well as... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780195365535
Published by : Oxford University Press
This new biography adds to the substantial literature on Cleopatra, presenting an overwhelmingly positive picture of a ruler in the Hellenistic mode, a skilled politician and diplomat, who was able, albeit ultimately unsuccessfully to champion ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199829965
Published by : Oxford University Press
This new biography adds to the substantial literature on Cleopatra, presenting an overwhelmingly positive picture of a ruler in the Hellenistic mode, a skilled politician and diplomat, who was able, albeit ultimately unsuccessfully to champion ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004183353
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Twenty essays which take a multidisciplinary approach to the study of Roman Egypt make up this volume. Field and settlement archaeology forms one central focus of the book, whilst other topics include written sources such as Greek and Demotic p... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780754665366
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
For over a millennium and a half, Egypt was home to at least two commonly used languages of communication, and the wealth of documentary sources preserved by Egypt's papyri makes the country a privileged observation ground for the study of anci... .... Learn More