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Working in Memphis [Paperback]
Paul Nicholson (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9780856982101
Published by : Egypt Exploration Society
This book reports on the excavation of a faience kiln at Kom Helul, Memphis. The kiln is of the early Roman Period and appears to be of the same type as those excavated by Flinders Petrie in the early twentieth century. The book a... .... Learn More -
Violence in Roman Egypt [Hardback]
Ari Z. Bryen (Author)
Regular Price: £62.00
Special Price: £49.00
ISBN: 9780812245080
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
What can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in people's lives? And what did they expect their government to do for t... .... Learn More -
Roman Conquests: Egypt and Judaea [Hardback]
John D. Grainger (Author)
Regular Price: £19.99
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9781848848238
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Egypt was the last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by Roman expansion. The Ptolemaic rulers had allied themselves to Rome while their rivals went down fighting. However, Cleopatra's famous love affair with Ma... .... Learn More -
Family in Roman Egypt [Hardback]
Sabine Hubner (Author)
£67.00ISBN: 9781107011137
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This study captures the dynamics of the everyday family life of the common people in Roman Egypt, a social strata that constituted the vast majority of any pre-modern society but rarely figures in ancient sources or in modern scho... .... Learn More -
A Brief History of Cleopatra [Paperback]
Regular Price: £9.99
Special Price: £3.95
ISBN: 9780762448012
Published by : Running
A lively coloquial look at Cleopatra’ reign, which looks at the Ptolemaic background to her rule, her strategies for maintaining power and continuing fragile independence from Rome and her relationships w... .... Learn More
Rituals of Triumph in the Mediterrannean World [Hardback]
Anthony Spalinger (Editor); Jeremy Armstrong (Editor)
£82.73ISBN: 9789004251007
Published by : Brill
This volume presents a series of cultural reactions to successful military public proclamations by various peoples of the ancient Mediterranean world, illustrating points of similarity and diversity, and demonstrating the complex ... .... Learn More
Medusa's Gaze [Hardback]
Marina Belozerskaya (Author)
Regular Price: £17.49
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9780199739318
Published by : Oxford University Press
The banded
agate libation bowl known as the Tazza Farnese
features Medua’s head on its outside and, inside, an
assembly of Egyptian Gods. This book traces its
remarkable story, from its creation in Ptolemaic
E... .... Learn More
From the Ptolemies to the Romans [Hardback]
Andrew Monson (Author)
£67.00ISBN: 9781107014411
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book gives a structured account of Egypt's transition from Ptolemaic to Roman rule by identifying key relationships between ecology, land tenure, taxation, administration and politics. It introduces theoretical perspectives from the social... .... Learn More
The Last Pharaohs [Paperback]
J. G. Manning (Author)
£26.95ISBN: 9780691156385
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
Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt [Hardback]
Philippa Lang (Author)
£105.00ISBN: 9789004218581
Published by : Brill
Current questions on whether Hellenistic Egypt should be understood in terms of colonialism and imperialism, multicultural separatism, or integration and syncretism have never been closely studied in the context of healing. Examin... .... Learn More
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