Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by David Hernández de la Fuente)
Laura Miguélez Cavero, Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD. Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 2. Berlin/New York: W. De Gruyter, 2008.
- Book Review: Riot In Alexandria
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Peter Van Nuffelen) Edward J. Watts, Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 46. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London:...
- Book Review: Moines Et Communautés Monastiques En Égypte (ive-viiie Siècles)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Shawn W.J. Keough) Ewa Wipszycka, Moines et communautés monastiques en Égypte (IVe-VIIIe siècles). JJP supplement 11. Varsovie: Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2009. Ewa Wipszycka's first contribution to...
- Book Review: Mummy Wheat
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Nikolaos Lazaridis) R. Drew Griffith, Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. Drew Griffith's Mummy Wheat...
- Book Review: City And School In Late Antique Athens And Alexandria
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Edward J. Watts, City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (First paperback printing, originally published 2006). The Transformation of the Classical Heritage; 41. Berkeley/London: University of California Press,...
- New Book: Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Wiley Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link. Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories R. B. Parkinson Wiley “Parkinson, one of the foremost scholars of ancient Egyptian literature, does much more than provide translations of these well-known...
Egypt
Book Review: Poems in Context
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by David Hernández de la Fuente)
Laura Miguélez Cavero, Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD. Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 2. Berlin/New York: W. De Gruyter, 2008.
A panoramic study of Greek Epic in Late Antique Egypt, such as this recent book by Dr Laura Miguélez Cavero, published as a result of her 2006 PhD dissertation at the University of Salamanca, was much needed in this field of research. Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid, as the title goes,--or, rather, epic, since lyric or drama are let aside--is a very valuable piece of scholarship, as we shall point out in the following lines.
First of all, let us summarize the contents of the present volume. Poems in Context is divided into 5 chapters, the first one providing an analysis of "The so-called school of Nonnus in the literary context of Panopolis (3rd-6th c. AD)" and of some of the main figures of this long period of time (the family of Fl. Horapollon, Cyrus, Olympiodorus, Nonnus and Musaeus). Miguélez Cavero argues for the non-existence of a "School of Nonnus" or something similar explaining this Egyptian "poetic flourishing" ("that would force into a category a certain number of poets whose purpose surely was not to create a group", p. 5). She also emphasizes the idea that the most important work of this period, the Dionysiaca, "did not emerge in a thematic vacuum" (p.22). Both ideas are important and thoroughly discussed in the book and we shall go back to them.
- Book Review: Riot In Alexandria
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Peter Van Nuffelen) Edward J. Watts, Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 46. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London:...
- Book Review: Moines Et Communautés Monastiques En Égypte (ive-viiie Siècles)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Shawn W.J. Keough) Ewa Wipszycka, Moines et communautés monastiques en Égypte (IVe-VIIIe siècles). JJP supplement 11. Varsovie: Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2009. Ewa Wipszycka's first contribution to...
- Book Review: Mummy Wheat
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Nikolaos Lazaridis) R. Drew Griffith, Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. Drew Griffith's Mummy Wheat...
- Book Review: City And School In Late Antique Athens And Alexandria
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Edward J. Watts, City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (First paperback printing, originally published 2006). The Transformation of the Classical Heritage; 41. Berkeley/London: University of California Press,...
- New Book: Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Wiley Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link. Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories R. B. Parkinson Wiley “Parkinson, one of the foremost scholars of ancient Egyptian literature, does much more than provide translations of these well-known...