Roman Egypt : a history / edited by Roger S Bagnall ; with contributions from Mona Hagggag [and four others].

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Bagnall, Roger S., editor.
• George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Romans--Egypt.
• Romans.
• Egypt.
• Egypt--History--30 B.C.-640 A.D.
• History.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 380 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"As Ruler of the Two Lands, Egypt's pharaoh wore the double pschent crown: the red crown of Lower Egypt, in the north, surrounding the white crown of Upper Egypt, in the south. Personified in the ruler, this union remained a central ideal throughout Egyptian history. The unity of Upper and Lower Egypt, also symbolized in the knot tied between papyrus and reed, was long seen as key to Egypt's success. (Fig. 1.1.1) In practice, however, the country was diverse in many ways, with an ongoing struggle between the central ideologies of unity and uniformity and the realities on the ground. Egypt was a self-consciously distinctive culture that also constantly received and absorbed immigrants from many countries into its society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1.1. The pharaonic background and the Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BC) / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.2. Rebuilding a centralized state: Saite rule / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.3. Two Persian occupations and sixty years of independence / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.4. Greeks in Egypt before Alexander / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.5. Alexander and the Ptolemies / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.6. Resistance to foreign rule / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.7. Alexandria and other urban centers / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.8. The world of the temples / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.9. The population of Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.10. A multilingual environment / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.11. Greek and Egyptian education in Ptolemaic Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.12. The Hellenization of the Egyptian administration / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.13. A mixed economy / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 1.14. Romans in Egypt before the Roman conquest / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 2.1. Government and administration: continuity and change from the Ptolemies to the Romans / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 2.2. The Roman army in Egypt / Mohamed G. Elmaghrabi
• 2.3. Languages in Roman Egypt / Mohamed G. Elmaghrabi
• 2.4. The central role of Alexandria / T.M. Hickey
• 2.5. Egypt's integration into the Roman economy / Mohamed G. Elmaghrabi
• 2.6. The development of urban elites / T.M. Hickey
• 2.7. The treatment of the temples and its implications / Roger S. Bagnall
• 2.8. The Jewish communities of Egypt, especially Alexandria / T.M. Hickey
• 2.9. Religious change under Roman rule / Roger S. Bagnall
• 2.10. The people of Roman Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson
• 2.11. The origins of Christianity in Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall
• 3.1. The continued rise of urbanism and the elite / Roger S. Bagnall
• 3.2. Violence from inside, above, and outside / Roger S. Bagnall
• 3.3. Intensification of high-value agriculture / Roger S. Bagnall
• 3.4. The Antonine plague and its debated consequences / T.M. Hickey
• 3.5. Twilight of the temples / Mohamed G. Elmaghrabi
• 3.6. The emergence of the Alexandrian church, then city bishops; the persecutions of Christians / Roger S. Bagnall
• 3.7. The invention of the Coptic writing system / Roger S. Bagnall
• 4.1. Diocletian's reforms of administration, coinage, and taxation / Roger S. Bagnall
• 4.2. An Egyptian nation in a Roman nation / Mona Haggag
• 4.3. Turbulence and renewal in Alexandria / Roger S. Bagnall
• 4.4. Elite struggles for wealth and power and the rise of a new aristocracy / Mona Haggag
• 4.5. Paganism, Christianity, and religious pluralism / T.M. Hickey
• 4.6. The emergence of Christian institutions in public; the church and imperial politics / Mona Haggag
• 4.7. The reappearance of a Jewish community in Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall
• 4.8. The invention of charitable institutions / Roger S. Bagnall
• 4.9. Monasticism / Roger S. Bagnall
• 4.10. The development of a Christian literary culture in Coptic / Mona Haggag
• 4.11. The development of a Christian educational culture / Roger S. Bagnall
• 5.1. Patriarchs and church politics from Chalcedon to Justinian / Roger S. Bagnall
• 5.2. Conflicts over doctrine and power from Justinian to Heraclius / Arietta Papaconstantinou
• 5.3. Alexandria as a university city; the auditoria of Kom el-Dikka / Arietta Papaconstantinou
• 5.4. Egyptian villages in Late Antiquity / Mona Haggag
• 5.5. The dominance of the wealthy elite / Roger S. Bagnall
• 5.6. City and country: dependence and divergence / T.M. Hickey
• 5.7. Coptic develops a literature and bids for official status / Roger S. Bagnall
• 6.1. The Sasanians in Egypt / Arietta Papaconstantinou
• 6.2. The conquest and lingering uncertainties / T.M. Hickey
• 6.3. Administrative continuity and evolution / T.M. Hickey
• 6.4. Old and new elites / T.M. Hickey
• 6.5. Impact on the rural population / T.M. Hickey
• 6.6. The evolution of the church and the dominance of the Miaphysites / T.M. Hickey
• 6.7. The formation of a Coptic identity / T.M. Hickey
• 6.8. The evolution of language use and gradual extinction of Coptic as spoken and business/legal language / T.M. Hickey
• 6.9. Linguistic change and religious conversion / T.M. Hickey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Roman Egypt

ISBN:

• 9781108844901
• 1108844901
• 1108949002
• 9781108949002

OCLC:

1240774517

Publisher Number:

99990107344

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