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Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt: Women's Bodies, Society and Domestic Space [Hardback]
Ada Nifosi (Author)
£115.00ISBN: 9781138099852
Published by : Routledge
Series: Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
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How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women's bodies and how did it acknowledge women's reproductive functions? Detailing women's lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming... .... Learn More -
A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt [Hardback]
Katelijn Vandorpe (Author)
£168.00ISBN: 9781118428474
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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With contributions from noted authorities in the field, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egyptoffers a comprehensive resource thatcovers almost 1000 years of Egyptian history, starting with the liberation of Egypt from Persian rule by A... .... Learn More -
Life in an Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity: Aphrodito Before and After the Islamic Conquest [Hardback]
Giovanni R. Ruffini (Author)
£28.99ISBN: 9781107105607
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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Most ancient history focuses on the urban elite. Papyrology explores the daily lives of the more typical men and women in antiquity. Aphrodito, a village in sixth-century AD Egypt, is antiquity's best source for micro-level social history. The arc... .... Learn More -
Ptolemy I Soter: A Self-Made Man [Paperback]
Timothy Howe (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £30.40
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)
£101.00ISBN: 9789004366961
Published by : Brill
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 -
JJP Supplement 31 (2017) Journal of Juristic Papyrology: ΟΙΝΟΣ: Production and Import of Wine in Graeco-Roman Egypt [Hardback]
Dorota Dzierzbicka (Author)
£52.00ISBN: 9788394684815
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
The aim of this book is to investigate the role of local and imported wines on the Egyptian market during the Graeco-Roman period. In order to study the supply of wine and its economic role, two separate topics must be considered: local production... .... Learn More -
Unearthing Alexandria's Archaeology: The Italian Contribution [Paperback]
Mohamed Kenawi (Author); Giorgia Marchiori (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £32.50
ISBN: 9781784918651
Published by : Archaeopress
Unearthing Alexandria's Archaeology: The Italian's Contribution' contains the results of an archival survey, historical research, and archaeological description of the main Italian excavations in Alexandria from the 1890s to the 1950s. The Italian... .... 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
