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Friday, September 02, 2011

REVIEW of Livia Capponi, Roman Egypt.


Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.09.04
Livia Capponi, Roman Egypt. Classical World Series.  London:  Bristol Classical Press, 2010.  Pp. 89.  ISBN 9781853997266.  $23.00.   


Livia Capponi, an enthusiastic and experienced papyrologist who is currently a lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University, has written a modest but well-documented introduction to Roman Egypt, a long historical period that begins with Augustus’ arrival at Alexandria on 1 October, 30 BC and ends with the Arab conquest of Egypt sealed by a treaty signed by the general ‘Amr ibn al-‘As and the patriarch Cyrus on 8 November 641. This introduction is intended for “students and teachers of Classical Civilization at late school and early university level”, according to the series’ mission statement on the back cover, even for “those with no previous knowledge of the classical languages and those who, before reading, did not even know what a papyrus was”, according to the author’s preface.

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