Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
ISBN 13 | 9780195178388 |
ISBN 10 | 0195178386 |
Author | Roger S. Bagnall |
Book Format | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Book Description | Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. In The |
About the Author | Roger Bagnall is Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Before joining the NYU faculty in 2007, he taught classics and history at Columbia University for 33 years. He specializes in the social and economic history of Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Egypt and directs the excavations at Amheida in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt. |
Publication Date | 2009-08-06 |
Number of Pages | 712 pages |
The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology