Egypt
- Book Review: City Of The Sharp-nosed Fish
The Periscope Post (Review by Philip Womack) This time it’s a star turn for Peter Parson’s City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007). This charming, entertaining and informative book is not only easy...
- Oxford University Wants Help Decoding Egyptian Papyri
BBC News Oxford University is asking for help deciphering ancient Greek texts written on fragments of papyrus found in Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of images have gone on display on a website which encourages armchair archaeologists to help catalogue...
- Book Review: Greetings In The Lord
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review by Roberta Mazza) AnneMarie Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Harvard Theological Studies 60. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Divinity School, 2008. The city of Oxyrhynchus has...
- Oxyrhynchus - The Dustbin Of History
Guardian Unlimited (Khaled Diab) Our collective memory of the past is mostly confined to grand figures and epic events, while the vast majority of humanity ends up in the wastelands of oblivion. Thanks to nearly half a million papyrus fragments uncovered...
- Online Exhibition: Diversity In The Desert
University of Michigan Papyrus Collection Thanks to the What's New in Papyrology blog for the link to the online exhibtion Diversity in the Desert, Daily Life in Greek and Roman Egypt. This is an excellently presented and informative website, linking...
Egypt
Book review: The City of the Sharp-nosed Fish
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2046517,00.html
The City of the Sharp-nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt by Peter Parsons 320pp, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Review by Tom Holland: "Peter Parsons is uniquely well qualified to act as a guide to what they found. For more than 50 years he has been working on the treasures exhumed a century ago from Oxyrhynchos: scraps of papyrus, some 500,000 of them, all inscribed with Greek. They date from a period long after the reign of Tutankhamen, when Egypt, having been conquered first by Alexander the Great, and then by Rome, was ruled by men whose culture was proudly classical. The contents of the average municipal tip back then appear to have been a good deal more high-brow than they are today: the Oxyrhynchos elite were endlessly dumping masterpieces of Greek literature, and the fragments of these poems and histories, many of them lost for centuries, are still being painstakingly pieced together by scholars such as Parsons. So too are documents from the earliest days of Christianity: it was at Oxyrhynchos, for instance, that a section of the suppressed gnostic Gospel of Thomas was first unearthed."
The City of the Sharp-nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt by Peter Parsons 320pp, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Review by Tom Holland: "Peter Parsons is uniquely well qualified to act as a guide to what they found. For more than 50 years he has been working on the treasures exhumed a century ago from Oxyrhynchos: scraps of papyrus, some 500,000 of them, all inscribed with Greek. They date from a period long after the reign of Tutankhamen, when Egypt, having been conquered first by Alexander the Great, and then by Rome, was ruled by men whose culture was proudly classical. The contents of the average municipal tip back then appear to have been a good deal more high-brow than they are today: the Oxyrhynchos elite were endlessly dumping masterpieces of Greek literature, and the fragments of these poems and histories, many of them lost for centuries, are still being painstakingly pieced together by scholars such as Parsons. So too are documents from the earliest days of Christianity: it was at Oxyrhynchos, for instance, that a section of the suppressed gnostic Gospel of Thomas was first unearthed."
- Book Review: City Of The Sharp-nosed Fish
The Periscope Post (Review by Philip Womack) This time it’s a star turn for Peter Parson’s City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007). This charming, entertaining and informative book is not only easy...
- Oxford University Wants Help Decoding Egyptian Papyri
BBC News Oxford University is asking for help deciphering ancient Greek texts written on fragments of papyrus found in Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of images have gone on display on a website which encourages armchair archaeologists to help catalogue...
- Book Review: Greetings In The Lord
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review by Roberta Mazza) AnneMarie Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Harvard Theological Studies 60. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Divinity School, 2008. The city of Oxyrhynchus has...
- Oxyrhynchus - The Dustbin Of History
Guardian Unlimited (Khaled Diab) Our collective memory of the past is mostly confined to grand figures and epic events, while the vast majority of humanity ends up in the wastelands of oblivion. Thanks to nearly half a million papyrus fragments uncovered...
- Online Exhibition: Diversity In The Desert
University of Michigan Papyrus Collection Thanks to the What's New in Papyrology blog for the link to the online exhibtion Diversity in the Desert, Daily Life in Greek and Roman Egypt. This is an excellently presented and informative website, linking...