Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Katherine McDonald)
- New Book: The Elephantine Papyri In English
Society of Biblical Literature The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change, Second Revised Edition by Bezalel Porten This important volume contains 175 documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of...
- 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: 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...
- New Book: The Language Of The Papyri
Oxford University Press The Language of the Papyri Edited by T. V. Evans and D. D. Obbink The modern rediscovery of the Greek and Latin papyri from Egypt has transformed our knowledge of the ancient world. We cannot, however, make the same claim in the...
- Book Review: The Ancient Languages Of Mesopotamia, Egypt And Aksum
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Roger D. Woodard (ed.), The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008 Reviewed by Mark Weeden, School of Oriental and African Studies, London The present volume...
Egypt
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 study of ancient multilingualism has been gathering momentum in the last decade or two, to the point where the debate has started to move away from mainly (or even exclusively) discussing Latin and Greek, to explore less well known corners of the ancient world and their languages. This volume is (surprisingly, considering the wealth of material available) among the first to present a collection of articles on multilingualism in ancient Egypt with a chronological span from the third century BC to the eighth century AD. The contributions are tied together by their authors' thorough knowledge of the evidence, and its cutting-edge interpretations, generally using all the modern theory available to them. However, despite the authors almost unanimously decrying the lack of cooperation between scholars of the different languages used in Egypt – broadly, Greek, Latin, Coptic, Demotic and Arabic in this book – the volume is not always as clear as it could be to those without prior knowledge of the material. Nevertheless, there is a great deal here for both the expert and the interested general reader to get their teeth into.
The volume is divided into three main sections (oddly, this is not made clear by the table of contents, but is explained on the blurb).
- New Book: The Elephantine Papyri In English
Society of Biblical Literature The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change, Second Revised Edition by Bezalel Porten This important volume contains 175 documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of...
- 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: 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...
- New Book: The Language Of The Papyri
Oxford University Press The Language of the Papyri Edited by T. V. Evans and D. D. Obbink The modern rediscovery of the Greek and Latin papyri from Egypt has transformed our knowledge of the ancient world. We cannot, however, make the same claim in the...
- Book Review: The Ancient Languages Of Mesopotamia, Egypt And Aksum
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Roger D. Woodard (ed.), The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008 Reviewed by Mark Weeden, School of Oriental and African Studies, London The present volume...