Roman Egypt

ISBN: 9781853997266 出版年：2011 页码：97 Livia Capponi Bloomsbury Publishing

Egypt is by far the best-documented province of the Roman Empire. The dryness of its climate means that an enormous number of literary and documentary papyri have survived - a unique, reliable and lively source that documents Egypt than any other Roman province. Hitherto these have not been used extensively by Roman historians, on the erroneous assumption that Egypt is somehow 'atypical' as a Roman province. However, scholars now agree that Egypt should be devoted more attention by anyone interested in the history of the Roman Empire. Tha first approach to the subject, presenting a survey of the most important aspects province under Roman domination, from the conquest by Octavian in 30 BC to the third century AD, from the micro-level of the Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, but also from the ancient literary sources, such as Strabo, Diodorus, and Philo, and from the most important archaeological discoveries.