The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt

by Richard Alston

Book Overview

For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history of the public faces of cities, their inscriptions, and the writings of their elites, but can begin to understand what the transformations of the city...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415642353
• ISBN13: 9780415642354
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"