Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
A bit off-topic, but may be of interest to some.
Monika Trümper, Graeco-Roman Slave Markets: Fact or Fiction?. Oxford/Oakville, CT: Oxbow Books, 2009. Pp. xii, 148. ISBN 9780977409488. $45.00.
Reviewed by Ulrike Roth, The University of Edinburgh
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.06.37 Christina Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 334 . ISBN 978-0-19-927665-3. $150.00. Reviewed by David Frankfurter, University...
Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
A bit off-topic, but may be of interest to some.
Monika Trümper, Graeco-Roman Slave Markets: Fact or Fiction?. Oxford/Oakville, CT: Oxbow Books, 2009. Pp. xii, 148. ISBN 9780977409488. $45.00.
Reviewed by Ulrike Roth, The University of Edinburgh
This neatly presented book has a clear argument: that the material evidence of eight building complexes employed by other scholars to study slave sales in the Graeco-Roman world has, in fact, little to do with them. It understands itself as a response to work carried out by a number of Italian archaeologists—Braconi, Coarelli, Cocco, Fentress (whom I count as an honorary Italian)—with a focus on a sub-set of papers published in 2005 in the Journal of Roman Archaeology by Braconi, Coarelli and Fentress under the title ‘Selling people: five papers on Roman slave-traders and the buildings they used’.1 In what she calls ‘a critical reassessment’, Monika Trümper reviews the evidence of the Agora des Italiens at Delos, the Building of Eumachia in Pompeii, the Crypta Balbi in Rome, the Tempio Rotondo in Ostia, the Basilica in Herculaneum, the Chalcidicum in Lepcis Magna, the Prytaneion in Magnesia on the Maeander, and the Serapeum in Ephesus.
- Online: Models And Evidence In The Study Of Religion In Late Roman Egypt
History of the Ancient World Models and Evidence in the Study of Religion in Late Roman Egypt Bagnall, Roger S. (New York University) From Temple to Church: Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity, edited...
- Book Review: Antony And Cleopatra
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono) Adrian Goldsworthy, Antony and Cleopatra. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2010. Adrian Goldsworthy is the author of an impressive stream of titles on Roman history that fall into the...
- Book Review: Pistoi Dia Tèn Technèn: Bankers, Loans, And Archives In The Ancient World
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by T.E. Rihll) Koenraad Verboven, Katelijn Vandorpe, Vandorpe Chankowski (ed.), Pistoi dia tèn technèn: Bankers, Loans, and Archives in the Ancient World: Studies in Honour of Raymond Bogaert. Studia Hellenistica...
- Book Review: The Impact Of Imperial Rome On Religions, Ritual And Religious Life In The Roman Empire
Bryn Mawr Classical Review There is one paper of interest in this book by Janneke de Jong: "Egyptian Papyri and 'Divinity' of the Roman Emperor" (p.239-252). Janneke de Jong surveys what we can learn from third-century papyri about the imperial...
- Book Reviews From Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.06.37 Christina Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 334 . ISBN 978-0-19-927665-3. $150.00. Reviewed by David Frankfurter, University...