Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Sara Saba)
- Book Review: Ancient Egyptian Tombs
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (William H. Peck) Steven Snape, Ancient Egyptian Tombs: the Culture of Life and Death. Blackwell ancient religions. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. This work is a rather ambitious attempt to summarize...
- Book Review: Roman Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Nikolaos Lazaridis) Livia Capponi, Roman Egypt. Classical World Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2010. Livia Capponi, an enthusiastic and experienced papyrologist who is currently a lecturer in Ancient...
- Book Review: The Multilingual Experience In Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Katherine McDonald) Arietta Papaconstantinou (ed.), The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. Farnham/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. x, 240. ISBN 9780754665366. Preview The...
- Book Review: The Cambridge Economic History Of The Greco-roman World
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Constantina Katsari) Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris, Richard P. Saller (ed.), The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. This is certainly an extraordinary...
- Book Review: A History Of The Ancient Near East
Scholia Reviews ns 16 (2007) 38. (Review by Jan P. Stronk, Ancient History, University of Amsterdam.) M. Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East, ca 3000-323 BC. Malden, Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell, 2007[2]. Blackwell History of the Ancient...
Egypt
Book Review: A Companion to Ancient History
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Sara Saba)
Andrew Erskine (ed.), A Companion to Ancient History. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester/Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Andrew Erskine is not new to the task of editing a Companion,1 but the aims of the volume under review are somewhat different from those of his earlier achievement. In this preface, he states that this work "aims to provide a series of accessible introductions to key topics in the study of Ancient History ...", which it certainly accomplishes, while its second purpose, namely to "reflect the vitality and the excitement of scholarship at the front line" is only partially fulfilled.
The volume is arranged into eight thematic sections to which 49 authors contributed. These are for the most part well-known scholars who can write comfortably about both the Greek and Roman aspects of specific themes, which is indeed no easy task. Examples are E. Meyer with her introductory but rock solid chapter on law or Lisa Nevett on housing, although her pages read as if they had been too often revised. Other specialists in more technical fields, in particular Walter Scheidel on demography, contribute by sharing their unmatched expertise.
Forewords by five international scholars precede these sections and among them figures that of the late Peter Derow, one of the dedicatees of the volume, together with George Forrest. The editor asked them to offer their personal perspectives on ancient history, in other words to answer the question that we have all been asked at some point: why it matters.
- Book Review: Ancient Egyptian Tombs
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (William H. Peck) Steven Snape, Ancient Egyptian Tombs: the Culture of Life and Death. Blackwell ancient religions. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. This work is a rather ambitious attempt to summarize...
- Book Review: Roman Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Nikolaos Lazaridis) Livia Capponi, Roman Egypt. Classical World Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2010. Livia Capponi, an enthusiastic and experienced papyrologist who is currently a lecturer in Ancient...
- Book Review: The Multilingual Experience In Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Katherine McDonald) Arietta Papaconstantinou (ed.), The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. Farnham/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. x, 240. ISBN 9780754665366. Preview The...
- Book Review: The Cambridge Economic History Of The Greco-roman World
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Constantina Katsari) Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris, Richard P. Saller (ed.), The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. This is certainly an extraordinary...
- Book Review: A History Of The Ancient Near East
Scholia Reviews ns 16 (2007) 38. (Review by Jan P. Stronk, Ancient History, University of Amsterdam.) M. Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East, ca 3000-323 BC. Malden, Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell, 2007[2]. Blackwell History of the Ancient...