Bibliographic Notes: Historical Overviews of Byzantine Egypt (ca 312 to 641 CE)

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Egypt, From Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest : A Study in the Diffusion and Decay of Hellenism

Author: Bell, Harold Idris, Sir

Originally published 1977 by Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, USA.

Paperback (June 1985) Reprint by Ares Publishing; ISBN: 0890053545

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Based on lectures given by the author, this is primarily a study in the diffusion and decay of Hellenism in its Egyptian environment; the interaction of Hellenic and Egyptian characteristics, and the gradual weakening and decay of the Hellenic element. Chapters on Papyrology, The Ptolemaic, Roman & Byzantine periods. Includes a lengthy bibliography.

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Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt. The Social Relations of Agriculture in the Oxyrhynchite Nome

Author: Rowlandson, Jane

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. vii-xiv, 1-384

Dimensions (in inches): 1.12 x 8.82 x 5.71. Paperback. ISBN 0-19-814735-X

Review by Susan Stephens, (Stanford University)

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This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowners derived their wealth from the rural hinterland.

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Alexandria in Late Antiquity, Topography and Social Conflict

Author: Haas, Christopher

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, February 1997

Dimensions (in inches): 1.33 x 8.73 x 5.76., Hardcover. ISBN 0-8018-5377-X, xviii + 494 pp. Book summary as provided by Johns Hopkins University Press



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Haas explores the broad avenues and back alleys of Alexandria's neighborhoods, its suburbs and waterfront, and aspects of material culture that underlay Alexandrian social and intellectual life.