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[ Numismatic Notes ] [ Work in Process 11 Jun 2000]

Greco-Roman Egypt Pages to link to:

Historical Overviews of Greco-Roman Egypt (30 BCE - 312 CE)

• --- Ancient History Sourcebook: Egypt under the Roman Empire from Strabo, Geography, c. 22 CE XVII.i.52-53, ii.4-5; XVIII.i.12-13
  Courtesy of Ancient History Sourcebook. Description of Egypt under the Principate derived from excerpts from Strabo's Geography. This text is part of the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html). The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history. ©< halsall @ murray.fordham.edu > Paul Halsall, June 1998
• --- ROMARCH: AEGYPTUS [index]
  The ROMARCH pages are the original crossroads for Web resources on the art and archaeology of Italy and the Roman provinces, ca. 1000 BCE - 700 CE. ROMARCH is sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology (IPCAA) at the University of Michigan.
• --- How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome -- by Bruce Bartlett
  Article from The Cato Journal: Volume 14 Number 2, Fall 1994.
  Roman economic policy started to contrast more and more sharply with that in the Hellenistic world, especially Egypt. In Greece and Egypt economic policy had gradually become highly regimented, depriving individuals of the freedom to pursue personal profit in production or trade, crushing them under a heavy burden of oppressive taxation, and forcing workers into vast collectives where they were little better than bees in a great hive. The later Hellenistic period was also one of almost constant warfare, which, together with rampant piracy, closed the seas to trade. The result, predictably, was stagnation. (The author is a Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis).
• --- Alexandria in the Greco-Roman Era
  Overview from "Alexandria2000" . . . the Internet web site devoted exclusively to Alexandria Egypt.
  Start at the history section http://www.alexandria2000.com/splashpage/assort/history.html
• --- Roman and Byzantine Rule (30BCE - 638 CE) [Overview]
  All contents copyright 1996, ArabNet.
• --- Alexandria (Arab. 'al-'iskandariyya)
  Encyclopedia of the Orient thumbnail sketch and timeline for Alexandria. Includes one small, not-too-great map.
  © 1997 CiAS.

Bibliographic Notes:
Historical Overviews of Greco-Roman Egypt (30 BCE - 312 CE)

• --- (BMCR 97.8.20) Bailey, ed., Archaeological Research in Roman Egypt
  Bailey, Donald M., ed., Archaeological Research in Roman Egypt. The Proceedings of the Seventeenth Classical Colloquium of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, held on 1-4 December, 1993.
  Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series number 19. Ann Arbor, 1996. Pp. 263. ISBN 1-887829-19-9.
  
  
  Contributors: V A Maxfield, D P S Peacock, W E H Cockle, J Bingen, R S Tomber, D. Rathbone, P Piacentini, D White, R Morkot, P Sheehan, M Baranski, S Snape and S White, R Bland, J McKenzie, G R H Wright, D M Bailey, J R Harris, D Montserrat, K Parlasca, J Ogden, B Lichocka, D M Bailey, Z Kiss, A Stauffer, R M Janssen, J Whitehorne, and N Goldman.
  Reviewed by Roger S. Bagnall, (Classics Columbia University), bagnall@columbia.edu
  [Bryn Mawr Classical Review provides reviews of books of interest to classisists]
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Maps showing Greco-Roman Egypt

• --- Map of Lower Egypt -218 KB (Latin)
  from Maps and Codices of the Roman Empire, From the library of Trimalchio web site

THE ROMAN RULERS OF EGYPT

• --- TITULATURE OF THE PHARAOHS: ROMAN PERIOD (30BCE-395 CE)
  A marvelous aid! The complete titulature in transliterated hieroglyphics for the Roman rulers of Egypt from 30 BCE to 395 CE. The information at this site is in English and French.
  

  It is best to start at http://members.xoom.com/dloeillet/KL/KLS/ETitul1.html for a discussion of how the rulers of Egypt set up their titles, the royal Egyptian naming conventions, a discussion of the manner of rendering the linguistic information see http://members.xoom.com/dloeillet/KL/KLS/ECONVENTION.html, and the source books from which this site's information is derived.

• --- Queen Zenobia of Palmyra
  Queen Zenobia of Palmyra. A very short entry taken from MS Encarta
• --- Coin image of Zenobia
  From ORB -- Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies -- a cooperative effort on the part of scholars to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies.
• --- Vaballathus and Zenobia (270-272 A.D.)
  Copyright (C) 1997. Jacqueline F. Long.
  Entry from --- De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
  The Imperial Index: The Rulers of the Roman Empire From Augustus to Constantine XI Palaeologus. [Main site gateway page located at URL http://www.salve.edu/~dimaiom/deimprom.html]
• --- L. Domitius Domitianus and Aurelius Achilleus (ca.296/297-ca.297/298)
  by Michael DiMaio, Jr. (from "An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors")
• --- Coin Image of Domitius Domitianus
  From ORB -- Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies -- a cooperative effort on the part of scholars to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies.

Bibliographic Notes:
The Roman Rulers of Egypt

• --- (BMCR 4.3.14) Stoneman, Palmyra and its Empire
  Author: Stoneman, Richard; Title: Palmyra and its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt against Rome
  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992 [Paperback reprint edition (Jan 1995)]. 246 pages. Dimensions (inches): 0.72 x 9.21 x 6.14
  Review by Kent J. Rigsby
  [Bryn Mawr Classical Review provides reviews of books of interest to classisists]
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The Greco-Romans of Alexandria and their Religions
Christian Church History (30 BCE - 312 CE)

• --- A History of Christianity in Egypt
  Egyptian Ministry of Tourism site
• --- Guide to Early Church Documents
  This hypertext document contains pointers to Internet-accessible files relating to the early church, including canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relavant to church history. Additional resources or corrections should be directed to the document maintainers at njb@iclnet.org.
  

  See especially: --- Athanasius: On the Incarnation.

  Athanasius [270-336 CE] was the overseer of Alexandria after the death of Alexander.
  

  He worte several theological treatises and was the chief defender of the Nicene Creed.

• --- Athanasius of Alexandria
  born: ca. 293 CE, Alexandria -- died: 2 May 373 CE, Alexandria. This biograqphy from The Development of the Canon of the New Testament web site (collected and organized by Glenn Davis).
• --- Eusebius of Caesarea
  Eusebius, born ca. 260 CE probably in Caesarea, died ca. 340 CE. This biograqphy from The Development of the Canon of the New Testament web site (collected and organized by Glenn Davis).
• --- Didymus the Blind
  born ca. 313 CE, died ca. 398 CE Alexandria. This biograqphy from The Development of the Canon of the New Testament web site (collected and organized by Glenn Davis).
• --- Ritual and Ceremony in the Graeco-Roman World A Select Classified Bibliography (1970–1996)
  K C Hanson, Fortress Press, PO Box 1209 Minneapolis, MN, USA 55440 ©1997-1998
Origen

• --- Origen and Origenism
  On the life, works, and influence of Origen (185-ca 253/254 AD) by F. Prat
  (Transcribed by Anthony A. Killeen). From the Catholic Encyclopedia, copyright © 1913 by the Encyclopedia Press, Inc. Electronic version copyright © 1996 by New Advent, Inc.
• --- Origen and other Sections from Ecole
  Ecole web site (base page at http://www.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb/index.html).
  The Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia (Ecole) Initiative is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish a hypertext encyclopedia of early Church history (to the Reformation) on the World-Wide Web. In principle, authors of the various articles that make up the encyclopedia maintain their own articles at their own locations. Each article is connected to the Ecole Initiative's Title Index, which can be accessed at any time by clicking on the Ecole icon (see the top left corner above) anywhere it appears in the encyclopedia. In addition, each article is linked directly to related articles and other information available on the Web.
  See also --- Timeline and Chronology: 30 BCE to 1464 CE
  The Ecole Chronology Project supplements the Ecole Initiative by providing a two-dimensional (temporal and geographical) model of events, persons, places, etc. that are pertinent in some way to early Church history. If you enter a name (or names), the chronology program will search the database and build a sub-chronology based on the name entered.
• --- Origen (Origenes Adamantius)
  Origen, born ca. 185 in Egypt, died: 253/254 at Tyre. This biograqphy from The Development of the Canon of the New Testament web site (collected and organized by Glenn Davis).
• --- Adamantius, A Newsletter for Origenian and Alexandrian Research
  Adamantius is the Newsletter of the "Italian Research Group on Origen and the Alexandrian Tradition", established in 1994 by six state universities (Chieti, Genova, Padova, Perugia, Pisa, Torino) and supported by the National Council for Research (C.N.R.), with the participation of several other scholars coming from different academic institutions. Its first aim is to document the activities of the Group in order to promote the study of Origen within the Alexandrian Judaic-Christian tradition. Besides this, it intends to provide a point of reference for the study and the research devoted more generally in Italy to the same complex of themes. In this way Adamantius hopes also to present itself to foreign research as a useful tool in order to get people acquainted with the work done in Italy and to foster the occasions for encounters and contacts between Italian and foreign scholars.
  In its annual issue Adamantius supplies in the first section (1. Notiziario) information about the projects and programs of the Research Group and about the work in progress of its members, paying also attention to the teaching activities (dissertations and courses) of the Group members and other scholars. In the second section (2. Repertorio bibliografico) it records the members' publications, as also those of other Italian and foreign specialists. Some of the most recent contibutions, in the form both of articles and books, are the object of a more detailed presentation. The third section (3. Comunicazioni) contains reports on conferences related in some way to the research field investigated by the Group and the announcements of conferences to be held by the Group or other sponsors. Italso informs on similar initiatives of study and cultural information, through seminars, lectures or talks, which aim to encourage the knowledge of Origen and of the Alexandrian tradition. The fourth section (4. Indirizzario) provides an up-to-date list of the members as of all those, in Italy and abroad, who would like to get in contact with the Group or to take part in its activities. A fifth section (5. Indici) contains lists ofthe biblical passages, of the origenian loci, and of the ancient and modern authors, to enable the readers to profit more easily from the information supplied by the Newsletter.



Clement of Alexandria

• --- The Stromata, or Miscellanies. Of Clemens Alexandrius (BookI, Chapters I-XXIX)
  ASCII version
• --- Clement of Alexandria: The Original Christian Philosopher
  by Mark Moussa,
  from COPTNET Articles Collection © All Rights Reserved.
• --- The Attitudes of Clement of Alexandria Towards Greek Medicine
  by Matthew F. Dowd
  (Ph.D. Student, History and Philosophy of Science. Notre Dame University - Matthew.F.Dowd@nd.edu)
• --- Clement of Alexandria (TITUS FLAVIUS CLEMENS)
  Clement, born ca. 150 CE probably in Athens -- wrote ca. 180-200 CE in Alexandria -- died between 211 and 215 CE in Jerusalem. This biograqphy from The Development of the Canon of the New Testament web site (collected and organized by Glenn Davis).
• --- Greco-Roman Studies and the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible: A Classified Periodical Bibliography (1970—1994)
  by K. C. Hanson, Creighton University, Published in FORUM 9.1-2 (1994[96]):63-119.
  (© 1996 Reprinted by K.C. Hanson by permission of the publisher).


St. Mark
Monastisism
The Arians and Arianism

• --- Arianism, and Arius (4th century CE)
  A page's worth on the topics taken from the Encyclopædia Britannica.
The Copts
• --- NOTE: All Links to Coptic History and Culture Are Grouped under Byzantine Religion in Egypt

Bibliographic Notes:
Christian Church History (30 BCE - 312 CE)

--- Book Review: Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy By Denise Kimber Buell in Journal of Religion and Society, Vol 1 (1999). ISSN 1522-5658 Princeton: Princeton University Press, May 1999. pp. 224. (ISBN 0691059802) No Price Listed. Book Reviewd by Khaled Anatolios (Weston Jesuit School of Theology) Order This book from Amazon.com

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--- Book Review: Hellenistic Commentary to the New Testament Hardcover (November 1995) Abingdon Press; ISBN: 0687009162 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.62 x 10.34 x 7.32 Reviewer: Jouette M. Bassler, (Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75275) © Copyright Society of Biblical Literature, 1996. The above comes from the Online Reviews of the Journal of Biblical Literature and Critical Review of Books in Religion (JBL/CRBR Online Reviews) at URL http://www.sbl-site.org/SBL/Reviews/reviews.html . Order This book from Amazon.com

• --- Nestorian Christianity (A MELVYL Bibliography)
  93 References on Nestorian Christianity from MELVYL (University of California Library Catalog).

ALEXANDRIA Ad AEGYPTUM

The City in Greco-Roman Times

• ---- Historical Sites In Alexandria
  
  Roman Theatre, Anfushi Tombs, Pompey's Pillar, Catacombs of Kom es-Shoqafa, Graeco-Roman
• --- Two Views of "Pompey's Pillar", 29 Mar 1892
  From the Aeria site (starting URL http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1altar/aeriahome.html) showcasing pictures from a trip up the Nile.

The Museum in Greco-Roman Times

The Chora and Elsewhere in Greco-Roman Times

• --- Roman Forts of Kharga Oasis
  Images and brief overviews of: Ain Umm Dabadib, El Deir, Qasr el Labeka, and finally Qasr Sumaria and Qasr el Geb, all of which and more are featured in the book The Western Desert of Egypt: An Explorer's Handbook by Cassandra Vivian. It is soon to be published by The American University in Cairo Press.
• --- Kharga Oasis in Roman Times
  See base page at http://www.tourism.egnet.net/Attractions.asp . This site is a gateway to many of the attractions of formaer Greco-Roman Egypt.
• --- The Fayoum
  A pictorial guide to the region and its oasis.
• --- Catalogue of the negatives made during the excavation of Antinoë (1913-14) by John de Monins Johnson
  Negatives made during the excavation of Antinoë (modern el-Sheikh Ibâda, opposite el-Ashmûnein, in Middle Egypt) in 1913-14 by Johnson for the Graeco-Roman branch of the Egypt Exploration Society. Report published in JEA i (1914), 168-81 figs. pls. xxii-xxvi.
• --- The Roman Site of Karanis (Exhibit: Kelsey Museum online)
  The University of Michigan sponsored excavations at Karanis from 1926 to 1935 and the objects recovered during these are the largest component of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology's collection. A tremendous range of material had been preserved at the site. Currently, university classes such as Roman Art and Archaeology and Egyptian Art and Archaeolgy make use of this resource during hands-on sessions with a limited number of the more durable objects. The University hopes to increase students' understanding of these pieces and of the site generally by giving them on-line access to material as well as more contextual information.

  • The site of Karanis. --- Karanis: An Egyptian Town In Roman Times
    Discoveries of the University of Michigan Expedition to Egypt (1924-1935) edited by Elaine K. Gazda; Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, 1983
  • Glass from Karanis.
  • Other containers from Karanis.
  • Wall painting from Karanis.
  • Sculpture and figurines from Karanis.
  • Coins from Karanis.

  Copyright © 1996 The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

  --- Lycia from the Ptolemies to Vespasian - by David Potter

  Abstract only

Bibliographic Notes:
ALEXANDRIA Ad AEGYPTUM

• Philo's Alexandria
  by Dorothy I. Sly
  Hardcover (February 1996), Routledge; ISBN: 0415096790
  
  Review supplied by Amazon.com -- Booknews, Inc. , August 1, 1996:
  A tour of the second city of the Roman Empire at the turn of the era, employing as a guide the work of the renowned Jew of the city, Philo. Alexandria is less known than most Roman cities because of the lack of both material remains and written records. Philo's religious treatises reveals much about the places, people, and culture, once we make allowances for his shortcomings and prejudices. Annotation © by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR, USA.
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• Hundred-Gated Thebes : Acts of a Colloquium on Thebes and the Theban Area in the Graeco-Roman Period (P.L. Bat.27)
  by S.P. Vleeming (Editor), P.W. Pestman
  Book Description: The choachytes (or morticians) of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes provided a rich documentation linking the city of the living on one side of the Nile with the city of the dead on the other. The family archives of these choachytes deal to a large part with their professional role in serving the dead entrusted to their care, but they are also virtually our only source of information about the city of Thebes, whose physical remains were ruthlessly obliterated in the nineteenth century. It was in order to draw attention to the richness of all the constituent parts of this documentation that a number of scholars were invited to present their views on Graeco-Roman Thebes at a colloqium held from 9 - 11 Sep 1992 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The survey papers and communications presented at this colloqium are published here.
  
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• --- Egypt After the Pharaohs 332 BC-AD 642
  Alan K. Bowman; Egypt After the Pharaohs 332 BC - AD642
  
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Greco-Roman Egypt and its Culture

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Articles and Guides to the Coins of Greco-Roman Egypt
(Roman Imperial Coinage of Alexandria)

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--- Book Review: Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance By David Frankfurter in Journal of Religion and Society, Vol 1 (1999) ISSN 1522-5658 Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. pp. 314. (ISBN 0691026858). No Price Listed. Book Reviewed by John J. O’Keefe (Creighton University). Order This book from Amazon.com

  Rome just before the Disaster at the Tueterburger Wald, 8 A.D. Map 
  Rome during the reign of Claudius and the Invasion of Britannia, 47A.D. Map 
  Rome after the Year of Four Emperors and the Victory of Vespasian, 70 A.D. Map 
  Deployment of the Legions before the Conquest of Dacia, 100 A.D. Map 
  Rome at its Greatest Extent, during the reign of the Emperor Trajan, 116 A.D. Map 
  Rome during the reign of Septimius Severus, 200 A.D. Map 
  Rome at the Height of the Crisis of the Thrid Century, 260 A.D. Map 
  Rome just before the ebbing of the Crisis of the Third Century, 268 A.D. Map 
  Rome after the ebbing of the Crisis of the Third Century, 275 A.D. Map 
  Rome during the reign of Diocletian, 290 A.D. Map 
  Rome during the reign of Constantine the Great, 330 A.D. Map 
  Rome during the disaster at Adrianople, 378 A.D. Map 
  The Sack of Rome, 410 A.D. Map 
  The defeat of the Hunnic Empire, 451 A.D. Map 
  The End of the Western Empire, 476 A.D. Map 

 Etruscan Italy, 600 b.c. Map 
 Etruscan Empire, 530 b.c. Map 
 Italy of the Early Republic, 380 b.c. Map 
 Mediterranean of the Middle Republic, 270 b.c. Map 
 The Medeterranean after the First Punic War, 220 B.C. Map 
 The Second Punic War, 219-202 B.C. Map 
 Marius vs. Sulla, the War for Reform, 86 B.C. Map 
 The Mithridatic Wars and the Revolt of Spartacus, 74 B.C. Map 
 The Conquest of Gual and the First Triumphurate, 52 B.C. Map 
 The Peace of the Second Triumphurate, 40 B.C. Map 
 Rome after the Victory of Octavian at Actium, 25 B.C. Map 

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