Egypt
- Book Review: Traversing Eternity
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by T. G. Wilfong) Mark Smith, Traversing Eternity: Texts for the Afterlife from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Egyptian funerary texts of the Graeco-Roman period are less...
- Book Review: The Arabic Hermes
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Y. Tzvi Langermann) Kevin van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science. Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Preview Kevin van Bladel has produced...
- Book Review: The Court And Court Society In Ancient Monarchies
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Rolf Strootman) A. J. S. Spawforth (ed.), The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. The book under review is the result of a workshop held in 2004...
- Book Review: Ostraca De Krokodilo
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Thomas Kruse) Hélène Cuvigny, Ostraca de Krokodilô. La correspondence militaire et sa circulation (O. Krok. 1-151). Praesidia du désert de Bérénice II. Fouilles de l'IFAO 51. Le Caire: Institut français...
- 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...
Egypt
Book Review: Land Transport in Roman Egypt
Bryn Mawyr Classic Review 2007.09.29 (Reviewed by Wim Broekaert, Ghent University)
Colin Adams, Land Transport in Roman Egypt. A Study of Economics and Administration in a Roman Province. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
See the above page for the complete review.
Colin Adams, Land Transport in Roman Egypt. A Study of Economics and Administration in a Roman Province. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
P.A.Brunt once described transport as 'the greatest failure of ancient technology'. Yet, in his penetrating study, Colin Adams (CA) convincingly argues that land transportation in Egypt was anything but a failure, and with good reason: requisition of animals used for the transportation of tax-grain played a vital part in the supply of Rome and Alexandria. Moreover, local trade in the desert depended heavily on the presence of professional transporters and the smooth functioning of numerous caravans. To prove this point, CA collects all ostraca and papyrological testimonies concerning the organisation of land transportation, analyses them with great scholarship and ultimately offers the reader a coherent and solid reconstruction of the various ways in which the Egyptians tried to bring goods to their destination.
See the above page for the complete review.
- Book Review: Traversing Eternity
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by T. G. Wilfong) Mark Smith, Traversing Eternity: Texts for the Afterlife from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Egyptian funerary texts of the Graeco-Roman period are less...
- Book Review: The Arabic Hermes
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Y. Tzvi Langermann) Kevin van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science. Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Preview Kevin van Bladel has produced...
- Book Review: The Court And Court Society In Ancient Monarchies
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Rolf Strootman) A. J. S. Spawforth (ed.), The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. The book under review is the result of a workshop held in 2004...
- Book Review: Ostraca De Krokodilo
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Thomas Kruse) Hélène Cuvigny, Ostraca de Krokodilô. La correspondence militaire et sa circulation (O. Krok. 1-151). Praesidia du désert de Bérénice II. Fouilles de l'IFAO 51. Le Caire: Institut français...
- 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...