LIFE IN EGYPT UNDER ROMAN RULE
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Photographs. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth with silver spine lettering, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) depicting an early engraving of ancient Egypt, 240 pages + 8 B&W glossy plates. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #1390
ISBN: 0198148488
"In the past hundred years the dry sands of Egypt have presented the world of classical scholarship with tens of thousands of original documents written on papyrus, the bulk of them dating from the first centuries of the Christian era, when Egypt was a province of the Roman empire. These ancient papers illuminate public and private life in intimate detail. The focus of this book is on the people who lived under Roman rule. What were their everyday lives like? The book offers answers to that question in chapters that survey the rigidly maintained class stucture, life and the means of livelihood in the towns and villages, religion, taxation, and the manifestations - mostly verbal but sometimes violent - of popular discontent."
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Price: $35.00