Graeco-Roman
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Ptolemy I Soter: A Self-Made Man [Hardback]
Timothy Howe (Editor)
Regular Price: £42.00
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ISBN: 9781789250428
Published by : Oxbow Books
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As the founder of the longest-lasting of all the Hellenistic kingdoms, not only was Ptolemy I an able soldier and ruler, he was also an historian and, in Egyptian eyes, a living god. His own inclination and experience facilitated continuous acts o... .... Learn More -
The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom [Hardback]
Christian H. Bull (Author)
£164.00ISBN: 9789004370814
Published by : Brill
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In The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian H. Bull argues that the treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus reflect the spiritual exercises and ritual practices of loosely organized brotherhoods in Egypt. These small groups were directe... .... Learn More -
Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404-282 BCE [Hardback]
Paul McKechnie (Editor); Jennifer A. Cromwell (Editor)
£110.00ISBN: 9789004366961
Published by : Brill
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Amyrtaeus, only pharaoh of the Twenty-eighth Dynasty, shook off the shackles of Persian rule in 404 BCE; a little over seventy years later, Ptolemy son of Lagus started the ‘Greek millennium’ (J.G. Manning’s phrase) in Egypt―living long enough to ... .... Learn More -
Coinage in Roman Egypt: The Hoard Evidence [Paperback]
Erik Christiansen (Author)
£17.95ISBN: 9788772889641
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Durable and iconic, coins are some of the most revealing everyday objects left to us from the ancient world. For the most part, however, they have been considered the special domain of numismatists, who typically seek to assemble as many varieties... .... Learn More -
Alexandria: A Cultural & Religious Melting Pot [Hardback]
George Hinge (Author); Jens A. Krasilnikoff (Author)
£28.95ISBN: 9788779344914
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity Series: 9)
Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created and formatted a distinct Alexandrine 'culture... .... Learn More -
Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World, 500 BC - AD 300 [Hardback]
Antonia Sarri (Author)
£72.50ISBN: 9783110426946
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistol... .... Learn More -
The Archive of the Architektones Kleon and Theodoros [Hardback]
B. Van Beek (Author)
£105.00ISBN: 9789042935006
Published by : Peeters Press
This book contains the edition of texts from the archive of Kleon and Theodoros, the engineers who were responsible for the upkeep of the large scale irrigation system in the Fayum during the reigns of Ptolemy II and III between 260 and 237 BC. Th... .... Learn More -
The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power [Paperback]
Kostas Buraselis (Editor); Mary Stefanou (Editor); Dorothy J. Thompson (Editor)
£24.99ISBN: 9781108436663
Published by : Cambridge University Press
With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key period of Hellenistic history. Within the develo... .... Learn More -
The Family in Roman Egypt: A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity and Conflict [Paperback]
Sabine R. Huebner (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781108438698
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 scholarship. The docu... .... Learn More -
Resurrection in Alexandria: The Painted Greco-Roman Tombs of Kom Al-Shuqafa [Hardback]
Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets (Author); Andre Pelle (Author); Mervat Seif El-Din (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789774168291
Published by : American University in Cairo Press
In the Greco-Roman catacombs of Alexandria, uniquely decorated tombs from the time when religious boundaries blurred and syncretistic beliefs flourished have long been known. But it was only in 1993 that researchers discovered faint traces of pain... .... Learn More
