Graeco-Roman
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Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt: Women's Bodies, Society and Domestic Space [Hardback]
Ada Nifosi (Author)
£140.00ISBN: 9781138099852
Published by : Routledge
Series: Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
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 -
Quesna I: Investigations in the Ptolemaic-Roman Cemetery 2006-2013 (Excavation Memoir) [Paperback]
£70.00ISBN: 9780856982217
Published by : Egypt Exploration Society
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Since 2006, investigations have been carried out in the Quesna necropolis by the team of the EES Minufiyeh Archaeological Survey. Quesna I concerns the first element of work now completed, the investigations in the Ptolemaic-Roman cemetery. The vo... .... Learn More -
Hellenistic Alexandria: Celebrating 24 Centuries - Papers presented at the conference held on December 13-15 2017 at Acropolis Museum, Athens [Paperback]
Christos S. Zerefos (Editor); Marianna V. Vardinoyannis (Editor)
£68.00ISBN: 9781789690668
Published by : Archaeopress
Hellenistic Alexandria: Celebrating 24 Centuries' presents the proceedings of a conference held at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, on December 13-15, 2017, and includes high-level dialogues and philosophical discussions between international exper... .... Learn More -
Ptolemy I Soter: A Self-Made Man [Paperback]
Timothy Howe (Editor)
£38.00ISBN: 9781789250428
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 -
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
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 -
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
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 -
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 -
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 -
JJP 45 (2015) Journal of Juristic Papyrology [Hardback]
Jakub Urbanik (Editor); Thomasz Derda (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 5550158729
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Journal
Volume: 45
The texts offered for the Jubilee of Professor Maria Zabłocka, who for a long time was the Director of the Chair of Roman and Antique Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw .... Learn More -
Houses in Graeco-Roman Egypt [Paperback]
Youssri Ezzat Hussein (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781784914370
Published by : Archaeopress
This book examines different forms of ritual activities performed in houses of Graeco- Roman Egypt. It draws on the rich archaeological record of rural housing and evidence from literature or papyrological references to both urban and rural housin... .... Learn More
