Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond

John Boardman

Andrew Lintott

Michael Whitby

Peter Garnsey

Averil Cameron

Alan K. Bowman

Bryan Ward-Perkins

Edward Champlin

Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards

Cyril John Gadd

David Malcolm Lewis

Frank William Walbank

A. E. Astin

John Anthony Crook

Elizabeth Rawson

Dominic Rathbone

J. A. Crook

This volume of 'The Cambridge Ancient History' embraces the wide range of approaches and scholarships which have in recent decades transformed our view of late antiquity.

The Cambridge Ancient History

The 1000 years between Alexander the Great's invasion in 332 BC and the Arab conquest in AD 642 was a period of enormous change in the history of Egypt. The Hellenistic era under the Ptolemies ended with the defeat of Anthony and Cleopatra in 30 BC and Egypt became a province of Rome. Under the Byzantine emperors the country enjoyed renewed political influence and continued prosperity as Christianity began to displace the ancient gods.

332 BC-AD 642 : from Alexander to the Arab Conquest

Egypt After the Pharaohs

Egypt After the Pharoahs treats the period which witnessed the arrival of the Greeks and Hellenistic culture in Egypt, the reign of the Ptolemies from Ptolemy I to Cleopatra, the conquest by Rome, the scientific and cultural achievements of Alexandria, and the rise of Christianity. The rich social, cultural, and intellectual ferment of this period comes alive in Alan Bowman's narrative. Egypt After the Pharoahs treats the period which witnessed the arrival of the Greeks and Hellenistic culture in Egypt, the reign of the Ptolemies from Ptolemy I to Cleopatra, the conquest by Rome, the scientific and cultural achievements of Alexandria, and the rise of Christianity. The rich social, cultural, and intellectual ferment of this period comes alive in Alan Bowman's narrative.

From Alexander to the Arab Conquest

Egypt After the Pharaohs, 332 BC-AD 642

Andrew Wilson

In this volume, papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists discuss trade within the Roman Empire and beyond its frontiers between c.100 BC and AD 350, and the role of the state in shaping the institutional framework for trade. Documentary, historical and archaeological evidence forms the basis of a novel interdisciplinary approach

Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World

Andrew William Lintott

Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies. Some volumes have had to be expanded into two or more parts and the series has been extended by two extra volumes (XIII and XIV) to cover events up to AD 600, bringing the total number of volumes in the set to fourteen. Existing plates to the volumes are available separately. *Profusely illustrated with maps, drawings and tables. *Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East from prehistoric times to AD 600 by an international cast of editors and contributors.

Examines the history of Egypt between 332 BC and 642 AD, portrays daily life during that period, and discusses government, the economy, architecture, and culture

Egypt After the Pharaohs 332 BC-AD 642

Martin Goodman

Simon Price

Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall Simon Price

Hannah M. Cotton

Lecturer in Ancient History Alan K Bowman

The essays in this volume cover the whole of the period in which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. The belief shared by all the contributors is that the Roman empire is best understood from the standpoint of the Mediterranean world looking in to Rome, rather than from Rome looking out. The papers focus on the development of political institutions in Rome itself and in her empire, and on the nature of the relationship between Rome and her provincial subjects. They also discuss historiographical approaches to different kinds of source material, literary and documentary - including the major Roman historians, the evidence for the pre-Roman near east, and the Christian writers of later antiquity. This volume reflects the immense complexity of the political and cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean, from the late Republic to the age of Augustine.

Rome and the Mediterranean World

Representations of Empire

Greg Woolf

This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider contexts of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing on society.

Literacy and Power in the Ancient World

Cambridge University Press

Simon Hornblower

Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art and Fellow John Boardman

Student of Christ Church and Professor of History D M Lewis

D. M. Lewis

M. Ostwald

Peter Gamsey

Over three hundred letters and documents were recently discovered at the fort of Vindolanda, in Northern England, written on wooden tablets which have survived nearly 2,000 years. Painstakingly deciphered by Alan Bowman, the materials contribute a wealth of evidence for daily life in the Roman Empire. - Military documents testify to the lifestyle of officers and soldiers stationed at Vindolanda, and portraits of domestic life are included in letters between the officers' wives and a letter from home promising a solider a package of socks. The engaging texts from thirty-four tablets provide insight into the similarities of daily existence in the Roman Empire and the present.

Vindolanda and Its People

Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier

Alan K. Bowman

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