Africa in classical antiquity, nine studies / edited by L. A. Thompson and J. Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Lloyd A., compiler.

Contributor:

Ferguson, John, 1921-1989, compiler.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa, North--History--To 647.

Africa, North.

North Africa.

History.

Africa--History--To 1498.

Africa.

Physical Description:

ix, 221 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Ibadan, Nigeria] : Ibadan University Press, 1969.

Contents:

Classical contacts with West Africa, by J. Ferguson.

Eastern Africa and the Graeco-Roman world (to A.D. 641), by L. A. Thompson.

African iron and the classical world, by D. Williams.

The consolidation of Carthaginian power in the fifth century B.C., by A. R. Hands.

Citizenship and democracy in fourth-century Cyrene, by A. A. Kwapong.

The Jews in Egypt and Cyrenaica during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, by E. M. Smallwood.

Settler and native in the urban centres of Roman Africa, by L. A. Thompson.

Aspects of early Christianity in North Africa, by J. Ferguson.

The influence of Greek thought on Islam, by J. Ferguson.

Notes:

Imprint covered by label: Africana Pub. Corp., New York.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

44711