Graeco-Roman
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Studies in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen [Hardback]
Cosetta Cadau (Author)
£120.00ISBN: 9789004279506
Published by : Brill
This first monograph in English on Colluthus situates this late antique author within his cultural context and offers a new appraisal of his hexameter poem The Abduction of Helen, the end-point of the pagan Greek epic tradition, w... .... Learn More -
Christian Women in the Greek Papyri of Egypt to 400 CE [Paperback]
Erica Mathieson (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9782503552415
Published by : Brepols
The documentary papyri are an unparalleled source for the study of women in antiquity. Among them are numbers of female-authored texts which allow women’s voices to be heard. In the period to 400 CE twenty-six of these texts... .... Learn More -
Double Names and Elite Strategy in Roman Egypt [Paperback]
Y. Broux (Author)
£86.00ISBN: 9789042931251
Published by : Peeters Publishers
In this detailed study of double names in Egypt, Yanne Broux explores how the age-old tradition of polyonymy flourished under Roman rule. While in the Ptolemaic period double names were mainly bilingual and were thus connected to ... .... Learn More -
Texts from the Archive of Socrates the Tax Collector and Other Contexts at Karanis [Hardback]
Mohamed Gaber El-Maghrabi (Editor); Cornelia Romer (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9783110342154
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
This volume of Papyri contains a selection of 25 pieces which were excavated in the village of Karanis in the north-eastern Fayum (Egypt) by American archaeologists between 1924 and 1926.
Many of the texts published here co... .... Learn More -
Alexandria’s Hinterland [Paperback]
Mohamed Kenawi (Author)
£49.00ISBN: 9781784910143
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
This volume contains detailed information about 63 sites and shows, amongst other things, that the viticulture of the western delta was significant in Ptolemaic and Roman periods, as well as a network of interlocking sites, which connected with th... .... Learn More -
The Bishop, The Eparch, and The King [Hardback]
Giovanni Ruffini (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9788393842513
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Volume: 22
British excavations at the important archaeological site of Qasr Ibrim have yielded numerous written sources composed in Greek, Coptic, Old Nubian, and Arabic. However, only a small number of them have been published so far, among them some sixty ... .... Learn More -
When the Greeks Ruled Egypt [Paperback]
Roberta Casagrande-Kim (Editor)
£24.95ISBN: 9780691165547
Published by : Princeton University Press
When the Greeks Ruled Egypt is the illustrated catalogue for the exciting exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Through sculpture, coins, religious statuettes, funerary stelae, papyri, a... .... Learn More -
Triangular Landscapes [Hardback]
Katherine Blouin (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780199688722
Published by : Oxford University Press
Between the Roman annexation of Egypt and the Arab period, the Nile Delta went from consisting of seven branches to two, namely the current Rosetta and Damietta branches. For historians, this may look like a slow process, but on a... .... Learn More -
Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt [Hardback]
Christelle Fischer-Bovet (Author)
£77.00ISBN: 9781107007758
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This is the only substantial and up-to-date reference work on the Ptolemaic army. Employing Greek and Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, and building on approaches developed in state-formation theory, it offers a coherent account o... .... Learn More -
The Oxford Handbook of Childhood Education in the Classical World [Hardback]
Judith Evans Grubbs (Editor); Tim Parkin (Editor); Roslynne Bell (Editor)
£105.00ISBN: 9780199781546
Published by : Oxford University Press
The past thirty years have seen an explosion of interest in Greek and Roman social history, particularly studies of women and the family. Until recently these studies did not focus especially on children and childhood, but conside... .... Learn More
