Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.06.36
Elizabeth Blyth, Karnak. Evolution of a Temple. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 258. ISBN 0-415-40487-8. $46.95 (pb).
Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig, RWTH-Aachen ([email protected])
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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: 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...
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- Book Review: Philae And The End Of Ancient Egyptian Religio
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Robert B. Gozzoli) J. H. F. Dijkstra, Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion: A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE). Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 173. Leuven: Peeters, 2008. The...
- Book Review: Religion In The Roman Empire
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Benedetta Bessi, John Cabot University) James B. Rives, Religion in the Roman Empire. Blackwell Ancient Religions, 2. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. 237. The Table of Contents indicates that there is an Egyptian...
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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 of New Hampshire ([email protected])
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 of New Hampshire ([email protected])
How Egyptian was Roman Egypt? The question has dominated quarters of Classics, Art History, and Ancient History for over a century. The perpetuation of classical Egyptian iconography on temples suggests a fundamental religious conservatism, while papyrological documentation reflects extensive Hellenism.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.06.36
Elizabeth Blyth, Karnak. Evolution of a Temple. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 258. ISBN 0-415-40487-8. $46.95 (pb).
Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig, RWTH-Aachen ([email protected])
Blyth's (hereafter B.) book is a very well written account of the history, development and function of the temple of Amun-Re at Karnak (Jpt-swt), one of the largest and surely most complex religious sites not only in ancient Egypt but the ancient world as a whole. It was founded in the Middle Kingdom about 4,000 years ago and parts of it were even in use for Christian worship after the closing of pagan cults under Theodosius I.
- 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: 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: Philae And The End Of Ancient Egyptian Religio
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Robert B. Gozzoli) J. H. F. Dijkstra, Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion: A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE). Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 173. Leuven: Peeters, 2008. The...
- Book Review: Religion In The Roman Empire
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Benedetta Bessi, John Cabot University) James B. Rives, Religion in the Roman Empire. Blackwell Ancient Religions, 2. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. 237. The Table of Contents indicates that there is an Egyptian...