Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Lucia Criscuolo)
Paul McKechnie, Philippe Guillaume (ed.), Ptolemy II Philadelphus and His World. Mnemosyne Supplements 300. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2008.
Table of contents available at the above address.
- Book Review: Living Through The Dead
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Kristina Killgrove) Maureen Carroll, Jane Rempel (ed.), Living through the Dead: Burial and Commemoration in the Classical World. Studies in funerary archaeology, 5. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011. This volume is the...
- 2,300 Year Old Temple Discovered At Thmuis
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) With several photographs. A temple built by Ptolemy II Philadelphus has been discovered at the ancient city of Thmuis (also known at Tell Timai) on the Nile Delta in Egypt. Ptolemy II was a king of Egypt and the son...
- Ptolemaic Gold Coin Found In Israel
CNN (Les Neuhaus) Many thanks to Rhio for the link. With a photo of, as he says, the very beautiful coin. A rare gold coin dating back 2,200 years was discovered by a combined university research team in Israel, a top Israeli antiquities official said...
- Journal Of Ancient Egyptian Interactions Vol 2, 2010
No website available, so I guess the only way you're going to be able to access this is via an academic library because I cannot even find subscription details. Do correct me if I'm wrong. Contents include: Ptolemy II Philadelphus and the Dionysiac...
- 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,...
Egypt
Book Review: Ptolemy II Philadelphus and His World
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Lucia Criscuolo)
Paul McKechnie, Philippe Guillaume (ed.), Ptolemy II Philadelphus and His World. Mnemosyne Supplements 300. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2008.
Table of contents available at the above address.
The volume offers the proceedings of a conference which took place in Auckland in July 2005, with two later additions, by S. Burstein and S. Pfeiffer. The topic chosen by Paul McKechnie and Bridget Buxton was strikingly new, as stressed in the preface: despite the importance of the character and the strategic leading position kept by Ptolemy II in the political chessboard of the second generation of Alexander's successors, no monographs have been dedicated to him until now. Moreover, as the title reminds us, Ptolemy Philadelphus was also the protagonist of the remarkable period of building up and developing that exceptional cultural centre which made Alexandria the capital of the Mediterranean for at least two centuries. The conference and consequently the proceedings were conceived under the sign of interdisciplinarity, as the editor McKechnie declares in the Introduction, the aim being to look for and find out the different "facets of the gem", Philadelphus's world, a paradigm of the multiculturalism which represented and included the main features of the Hellenistic world.
The result of such an enterprise is uneven, though the intention of balancing the issues is well expressed by the subdivision into five chapters named by the districts of Alexandria, from Alpha to Epsilon.
- Book Review: Living Through The Dead
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Kristina Killgrove) Maureen Carroll, Jane Rempel (ed.), Living through the Dead: Burial and Commemoration in the Classical World. Studies in funerary archaeology, 5. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011. This volume is the...
- 2,300 Year Old Temple Discovered At Thmuis
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) With several photographs. A temple built by Ptolemy II Philadelphus has been discovered at the ancient city of Thmuis (also known at Tell Timai) on the Nile Delta in Egypt. Ptolemy II was a king of Egypt and the son...
- Ptolemaic Gold Coin Found In Israel
CNN (Les Neuhaus) Many thanks to Rhio for the link. With a photo of, as he says, the very beautiful coin. A rare gold coin dating back 2,200 years was discovered by a combined university research team in Israel, a top Israeli antiquities official said...
- Journal Of Ancient Egyptian Interactions Vol 2, 2010
No website available, so I guess the only way you're going to be able to access this is via an academic library because I cannot even find subscription details. Do correct me if I'm wrong. Contents include: Ptolemy II Philadelphus and the Dionysiac...
- 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,...